Thursday, September 23, 2010

Houses


Bungalow
1.Spacious floor plan
2.A British and American aesthetic era that encapsulated a romantic idealization.
3.A front porch or partial wrap around porch

Barndominium
1. Living space attached to a workshop
2. A barn
3. Large vehicle garage

Bay and gable
1. Large bay window
2. Surmounted by a gable roof.
3. 2 and a half stories tall.

Cape Dutch
1. H Shaped
2.Ornately round gables.
3. Walls are whitewashed
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Chattel house
1. Small wooden house
2. Set on blocks or groundsill
3. Sometimes height is an illusion.

Cottage
1. Traditional build
2. Post war home look a likes.
3. Also means vaction/summerhome

Dogtrot house
1. Two log cabins
2. Connected by breezeway
3. Rooms opened into the breezeway

Earth Sheltered house
1. Earth as heating
2. Extreme privacy
3. High protection from natural events.

Georgian
1. Many decorative moldings.
2. Designed before American Revolution.
3. Has two chiminey's.

Shotgun House
1. no more then 12 feet wide.
2. Almost no front yard.
3. rooms are in a line.