Old House Journal – September 2019

A FUNCTIONAL ASSET

Formal Tudor details

distinguish a new

window seat created

by David Heide Design

Studio to cover a

radiator in the entry.

BEFORE

BENCHES

& inglenooks

The inglenook was popularized by late-19th-century

architects working in the Shingle and early Colonial

Revival styles. Boston architect H.H. Richardson some-

times gets credit with importing the idea—two fi xed

bench seats on either side of a fi replace—from

England. He certainly used it in many of his interiors.

Window seats and built-in benches have no clear time

of origin. The fancy ones have custom-fi t cushions and

concealed storage underneath. The built-in breakfast

SUSA nook is associated with early-20th-century bungalows.

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