All documents used with permission
Profiles of woodworkers for Lost Art Press
Furniture & Cabinetmaking Magazine
Stanley Webb Davies (F&C 270, May 2018)
Decorative carving in the Stanley Webb Davies style (F&C 270, May 2018)
The Hoosier Cabinet and the making of the modern woman (F&C 274, September 2018)
Behind closed doors: the history of the Wooton desk (F&C 273, August 2018)
Popular Woodworking
A Woodworker’s Guide to Custom Cabinets (#239, June 2018)
8 Common Hinges (April 2018)
American Bungalow
Bringing Back Stinesville (PDF)
Miracle on South Dunn Street (PDF)
Old-House Interiors (now merged with Old-House Journal)
Essay: Money Well Spent (PDF)
Essay: On Matters of Taste (PDF)
Essay: Wedded to Place (PDF)
Cherished by Edie (PDF)
Essay: Women and Their [Sp]ouses
Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival
Edgar Miller and the Carl Street Studios
Replica Kitchen for a Tudor House (PDF)
Old-House Journal
Period Collaboration (PDF)
Bloom Magazine
The Life and Legacy of T.C. Steele, Indiana’s Foremost Painter (PDF)
Linda Chapman of Harvest Moon Flower Farm (PDF)
Margaret Weymouth Jackson, the Sage of Spencer, Indiana (PDF)
Rachel Peden Rediscovered (PDF)
The Life and Times of Mary Agnes Conard (PDF)
Eva Kor of Terre Haute (PDF)
Maple Grove Road: Take a Ride Back in Time (PDF)
A Farm Where the Buffalo Roam (PDF)
Preserving Our Past: In Praise of Bloomington Restorations (PDF)
A Green Love Affair (PDF)
Huffington Post
Other writing
Foreword to Indiana University Press edition of Rachel Peden’s The Land, the People
After you read a piece of writing by Nancy Hiller, you notice that you occupy the world a little differently. Your eyes look longer at the eave. Your palm lingers longer on that table. You ask an extra question to the woman rocking on the front porch. This is writing that encourages perception for the sake of knowing where you live–your kitchen, your house, your community–better. From forgotten neighborhoods to a banister’s curve, Hiller takes the time to look, to research, and to convey her subject’s fullness.
She tracks objects from wooded forest to dinette, and while she does she also relates their social, manufacturing, gender, and visual history. Underlying her sentences is a profound ethics, arguing that knowing more about things will encourage us to treat them differently. This is a sort of preaching that comes not from knowing better, but from knowing the daily joy of experiencing more.”
—Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History and Divinity, Yale University
Press
“Precise in Wood and Deed,” profile in The Guild department of Arts & Crafts Homes magazine, 2020.
Read Megan Guerber’s Interview with me in American Craft Magazine, February 2018.
Read the interview about how my work is influenced by my studies at Indiana University in Pride of Indiana, Fall 2018.
Cover feature, Popular Woodworking November 2017
Video made for Frank Miller Lumber
“Ode to a Legend”: Hayrake table featured in “Art + Craft,” Winter 2018 issue of Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival
Q&A with the UK’s Furniture & Cabinetmaking Magazine Subscribe here.
Fine Woodworking
Arts and Crafts Chest
from the March/April 2020 (#281) issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine © by the Taunton Press.
Crackle Finish with Milk Paint (PDF)
Hiller.Crackle Finish.FWW261
From FWW#261 June 2017 © by the Taunton Press.
Arts & Crafts with an English Accent (PDF)
from the October 2012 issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine © by the Taunton Press.
Rediscovering Milk Paint (PDF)
from the July/August 2008 (#199) issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine © by the Taunton Press.
Arts & Crafts Wall Shelf (PDF)
from the September/October 2007 (#193) issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine © by the Taunton Press.
40 Years of Inspiration: How Fine Woodworking influenced generations of woodworkers, by Steve Scott
December 2015 (#250)
Original Arts and Crafts Finish (PDF)
from the September/October 2007 (#193) issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine © by the Taunton Press.
Built-ins that Blend In (PDF)
from the September/October 2005 (#179) issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine © by the Taunton Press.
Updating an Antique: Edwardian Hallstand (PDF)
from the September/October 2003 (#165) issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine © by the Taunton Press.
Popular Woodworking
Cover feature, Popular Woodworking December 2015
“Adjusting Non-Adjustable Butt Hinges” feature
Fine Homebuilding
Cover feature, “Projects” special-interest publication published by Fine Homebuilding Magazine
Build a Floating Vanity (PDF)
Issue #236 Reprinted with permission © by The Taunton Press, Inc.
Fine Homebuilding Floating Vanity video
Old-House Interiors
“Midcentury Modern in Bloomington” (PDF) May/June 2007
“A Perfect Blue Green” (PDF) December 2007
“Inspired by…Hoosier-era built-ins” September 2009
“Furnishings: Lebus Reborn” April 2010
“Put Some English on It” May/June 2011
Christine Matheu’s kitchen featured in Kitchen Classics special-interest publication, 2011
“A Mid-Century Modern Retreat” July/August 2011
Arts and Crafts Homes and the Revival
“With a Memory” (PDF)
“Build your own masterpiece” Summer 2011
“Glossbrenner House pocket doors” (PDF)
“Pocket doors trapped in an Arts & Crafts Tudor” Winter 2014
ART + CRAFT “Tabula Maxima” Spring 2015 (PDF)
Books and special-interest publications
Kitchen Classics: Christine Matheu’s kitchen
Woodcraft Magazine
“Build a Knockout Knock-Down Desk” October-November 2015
“Joinery Class” October-November 2015
The Herald-Times
A Country Kitchen (March 20, 2013)
Waldron Desk (PDF)
Mid-Century Modern Kitchen (PDF)
Sideboard leads to quest (PDF)
Voysey-inspired kitchen (PDF)
“Local woodworker favors traditional styles” (Oct. 31, 2002)
“Built-in furniture that matches the house” (Nov. 3, 2005)
“New bathroom fits tight space” (Sept. 19, 2009)
“Kitchen remodel takes cues from 1920s” (Dec. 15, 2007)
“Painted floors provide a classic look” (Nov. 2, 2006)
“A new kitchen for an old home” (Oct. 1, 2008)
“Handled with care” (May 31, 2009)
WFIU Interview
Cafe Indiana interview with the formidable Yael Ksander
Bloom
The Hoosier Cabinet by Zak Szymanski (JPEG)
Fearless Furniture (PDF)
her MAGAZINE FOR WOMEN
At Home with Nancy Hiller (PDF)
From her MAGAZINE FOR WOMEN, Fall 2011, published by The Courier-Times, New Castle, Indiana
News
Arts and Crafts Chest
from the March/April 2020 (#281) issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine © by the Taunton Press.
“Building Custom Kitchen Cabinets” video series with Woodsmith Magazine now available. Click here to sign up using the code NANCYSAVES for $30 off.
American Craft Magazine interview
Big Talk interview with Michael Glab on WfHB about Making Things Work
English Arts & Crafts bookcase, Popular Woodworking cover feature in December 2015!
Popular Woodworking Video now available: Build a Turn-of-the-Century Baker’s Cabinet
“Fearless Furniture: Art of the Matter 203” by Brian Paul for WFYI Indianapolis
Sneaky Bar wins PureBond Quality Award from Columbia Forest Products
Nancy Hiller, Lee Huss, and the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center desk featured on WTIU’s Weekly Special Program #713: “A Walk in the Woods.”
Johnny Grey reviews The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History and calls it a “must read for anyone interested in American kitchens.” Read the full review.
A Home of Her Own wins IPPY Award in the Home & Garden category.
A Home of Her Own featured in the Huffington Post.