Here is everything you need to know about the quintessentially American Craftsman home style. Many of the Craftsman homes are bungalows or 1.5-story homes with covered front porches. “The style ...

The California Craftsman bungalow saw its heyday from about 1905 to 1915, when the need for new housing dovetailed with the handmade, back-to-nature ethos of the Arts and Crafts movement.

You could do what Kelly and Jonas Sickler plan to do - sell their 1,600-square-foot Strathmore bungalow at 812 Stinard Ave. for $119,900, and buy another, larger home less than a block away.

And if there was ever a home type to eschew formality, it’s Craftsman style homes. “The style was a reaction to the fussiness of the fancy Queen Anne-style homes that were popular at the end of the ...