Jane Powell — House Dressing
author, restoration consultant
Labeled “the bad girl of bungalow writing,” Jane Powell is a restoration consultant, house restorer, lecturer, and author of six books, including Bungalow Kitchens, Bungalow Bathrooms, Bungalow Details: Exterior, Bungalow Details: Interior, Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts and Crafts Home, and Linoleum.
As a hands-on restorer, she has brought ten vintage homes back to life and sold them to appreciative buyers, and continues the ongoing restoration of her own home, the 1905 Jesse Matteson house. The practical experience of restoring houses has armed her with the kind of concrete knowledge that can only be gained by screwing up, and thus she is uniquely qualified to help her clients avoid many of the pitfalls that go along with restoring an older home. As a restoration consultant, she has helped homeowners as well as house museums with their kitchens, bathrooms, interior and exterior paint colors, and other aspects of restoration and renovation.
She has written for magazines including Old House Journal, Style 1900, and American Bungalow. She writes a monthly column as well as feature articles for the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and her opinion pieces have appeared in the Berkeley Daily Planet, the Oakland Tribune, and on oaklandnews.com. She has also appeared on HGTV's Curb Appeal and Food Network's Ultimate Kitchens.
She is a popular and entertaining speaker, and has lectured at conferences including The Grove Park Arts and Crafts Conference, Pasadena's Craftsman Weekend, Seattle's Bungalow Fair, the Restoration and Renovation Conference, and many others. She has also spoken for preservation organizations, neighborhood associations, home builders groups, and historic district organizations across the country, and even at kitchen showrooms and retail businesses. In addition to the talks based on her various books, she speaks on related subjects including historic preservation, development issues, and the built environment.
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