Traditional Style

During the 1920s, home design began to move away from rigid period styles as American cities boomed with houses boasting modern conveniences such as electrical wiring and indoor plumbing.

Several companies enticed the home buyer with catalogs filled with standard house designs, making house-hunting an armchair experience.You can easily transplant the traditional elements of the 1920s into your home. Wide casings, a definite do-it-yourself project, allow individual expression in your choice of moldings along their edges. Picture-hanger molding is another simple project because the materials are affordable and the skills required are modest.