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ARCHITECTURE & ITS OVERLAP WITH INTERIOR STYLES

Style names can be confusing, and periods overlap, with interior styles of furniture and decorating spanning several periods of architecture. This timeline gives a quick read of what decorating trends matched up with general house styles. Not shown is the postwar period, when Modern styles competed with European Historical Revivals.

DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE

Styles from post-medieval Elizabethan through Atomic Ranch make up

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