We recently bought a 1920's bungalow in Milwaukee (after having lived in (and renovated) a 1920's bungalow outside of Chicago for several years). The house has a lot of potential - it has quite a bit of its original charm - the subway tile and hexagonal tiles in the bathroom, beautiful oak floors (which had been covered by old carpet for years), a butler's pantry with tons of storage and a breakfast nook in the kitchen overlooking the backyard, leaded glass windows on all of the exterior windows and several leaded glass doors in the interior and so on. Even more exciting, the fellow who sold us his house passed along all of the original blueprints of the house - including ones detailing all of the original moldings/materials used. So, we have a good idea of what it did look like when it was built. We just need some help in actually completing the restoration. Does anyone have any resources for carpenters, contractors or renovation experts in the Milwaukee area? (We need to restore some windows that flank the fireplace, we'd eventually like to do some major restoration work on the kitchen and baths and some other such projects.) At this point, we've done some painting and refinished the beautiful oak and maple floors, but that's all we've tackled. <br> <br>I've attached a link to some pictures of the outside and one picture of the living room, to show the window that once was a leaded glass window but has been removed. The window that would have been on the other side of the fireplace was completely removed (even the wood frame...hence our need for a carpenter). <br> <br>Any help would be appreciated! <br> <br>http://www.geocities.com/jsabucciarelli/bungalow.html <br>

There's a great article in the most recent issue of American Bungalow about the bungalows of Milwaukee (starts on page 82). It tells about an organization called "Historic Milwaukee." If you could get in contact with them they would probably know contractors and restoration resources. By the way, neat house, very attractive. <br>

Thanks for the referral, Rick. The current issue also <br>features a 10 page article on Denise and Keith Hice's <br>beautiful Milwaukee bungalow (Denise is President <br>of the Board of Historic Milwaukee). <br> <br>I was totally blow away by the bungalows of Milwaukee <br>when Alex and I visited there last year. They are unique <br>and inventive in style and the craftmanship, as a whole, <br>equals or exceeds any I have seen. Look for more <br>Milwaukee bungalow articles soon -- we photographed <br>many. <br> <br> <br>

As a long-time subscriber, I did read the recent articles regarding the Milwaukee bungalows and had on my resource list a call to Historic Milwaukee. In our search for a new bungalow here, we drove past many wonderful examples of all styles of bungalows (some styled we didn't know even existed!), but of course few were for sale... Seems that no one can part with their bungalows here! I very much enjoyed the recent Milwaukee article (all the pictures were wonderful, I especially liked the log cabin bungalow! How unique!) One of our goals is to explore our Milwaukee neighborhoods a little bit more and see some of these wonderful houses. We look forward to seeing more Milwaukee bungalows in the magazine in the future! <br> <br>