No photos, just wanted to say sometimes a mix of styles is refreshing. I had an art deco home once, but my mostly traditional furniture looked fine in it. We kept the floors plain and the colors monochromatic. I'd think the clean lines of mid-century modern could be incorporated into an uncluttered 1920s bungalow.

There was an article in Sunday's Chicago Tribune about this very subject.

An architect bought an old Chicago bungalow and mixed it up with a more modern style.

Here is a link that might be useful: Bungalow Modern

great article parma, thanks!
It sounds like this will be possible :)

I think you are working with two styles that can be integrated very well. Think about using things that are common to both styles...both Arts & Crafts bungalow (which I think is how you describe your house..) and mid-century modern style use richly colored hand-made textiles and art pottery in their vocabulary, for instance. Tribal rugs, clean, curvy Art Nouveau shapes, and rich natural materials like leather and stone work with both, and pull them together.

Here are a couple photos of their home:

This is the kid's bedroom in the home:

Yes! Another one in my boat. Last year I moved my Danish Modern/Eames furniture into a 1922 bungalow. It works just fine, although I sometimes wonder if it's just slightly too offbeat to be aesthetically cohesive.

What I've found is that the house is inspiring me to rethink my furniture collection and I'm moving more in the direction of A&C and Mission style when I acquire new items.

But the colors play very well together - even my bright orange sofa - Danish Modern orange works well with A&C sage green; mustardy Eames yellow brings out A&C burgundy, etc. The wood tones are also (mostly) sympatico.

My biggest issues have been figuring out window treatments and how to incorporate all my swoopy teak lamps and blonde Heywood Wakefield pieces. I'll try to take some decent photos, but here are a few for the meantime.
I'm still figuring it out for the dining room, for example. You can just see my Harmonic Heywood-Wakefield dining table here (under the cat):

Recently I reupholstered an old wing chair in Arts/Crafts velvet, and was delighted to find that the colors harmonize well with my 1950's Franciscan Tiempo dinnerware collection:

In the corner on the chair photo you can just see the rug I found for the living room - A&C style in Danish Modern colors, a real coup. :-) Rugs can really pull it all together, I've found.

Would love to hear more about your own furnishings & plans as you develop your new home's unique look!

For the past 5 years, we have been living in a 1929 arts and craft style bungalo- she is having her 80th birthday!!! Ours is rather simple in style. WE moved from a 1980/s rancher. we used our paint and decor choices from our old home in our newer home and it works well-did not have to change a thing!! While our furniture is traditional with many antiques mixed in. Color coordination seems to be the keep, with simplicity.
My sister and her family also live in a 1920 bungalow, THere\s is much "fancier" than ours. They have all walnut floors, woodwork, build in buffet, bookcase dividers and even carved fireplace mantel. ours is white pine floors and woodwork. They also have many leaded windows, we dont. They also subscribe to traditional furnishing but many contemporary pieces that mix quite nicely; where as we have antiques.
Once again, I think the key is color coordination-
Have fun.
We love the high ceilings, the feel of larger rooms, it is so wonderful to just love your home!!!. People visit us and say nice house. But then they ask when will be moving back to the burbs..... they just don't get it

circuspeanut, many lovely things to look at there. I love the A&C shades, the wall color, and especially that wonderful black-cat-on-green-pillow centerpiece ;)

cirus peanut, I covet your shades!!!!! I believe I could say that about your kitchen too (aren't you the one with the copper kitchen), it's to die for!!!!!

I have been doing this most of my life due to circumstance! My mom and dad grew up in the depression, with furniture from their parents coming of age during the teens and 20's. Then when the 'rents were just starting out in their own dwellings, they had mid century modern stuff, in reaction to the victorian and art nouveau stuff they grew up with. Then when my parents got more financially comfortable, my mom went heavily into the victorian style, the style of HER grandmother. So I ended up with all the art nouveau, art deco and mid century cast offs from my folks who were sick of them. Now, my house is full of stuff from MY grandmothers and my folks early stuff. Then, when I started out on my own, I got influence heavily by IKEA, and I do like the Danish modern style. There's no one all encompassing look to all of these styles so of course the right pieces can be mixed and matched. Well made and tastefully designed furniture of any era can be reworked. I have to laugh and laugh at the tacky re-interpretations going on nowdays of the 60's styles I grew up with, I guess that was kinda late mid century modern. What was tacky back then is still just as tacky, even tackier. But what was classic back then still works. Good lines and good materials can be worked with, and fabrics can be updated and re-interpreted. But it does take a certain eye to recognize an old tattered gem that can be reworked. And knowing what's good and what's chaff.

I have to laugh thinking about growing up with old Eames wire mesh chairs rotting in the garage and thinking they were the ugliest things going. Mom finally resurected them and painted over the rust and now they are hip hot antiques! Now that they've been placed in a more fitting setting I like them a lot. But I still couldn't tolerate a whole house full of chrome!

Here is a link that might be useful: Eames wire chairs

We're in the opposite boat. We spent years in 1920s homes and had amassed a lot of A&C and other ca. 1900-1930 furniture. Then we moved into an MCM home. We sold a lot of the antiques but kept a few things that seem to fit in fine, like an A&C grandfather clock, drop-front desk, Stickley Bros. costumer and a barrister bookcase. We also have two small A&C desks we use in our offices. But that is all among the Danish modern DR set, DH's 1958 Seeburg jukebox and modern repro LR furniture.

Somehow it works. After all, isn't my glass house with the garden in the middle really just the evolution of the bungalow?

this has been so much fun to read and learn about how other mix and match! I can't wait to be able to post photos when we move in (mid August).
Circus, you have some very coveted names in your furniture collection. I wish I could afford some of those names :)

Thanks for sharing everyone!