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    Beautiful Bungalows of the Twenties
    Beautiful Bungalows of the Twenties
    Beautiful Bungalows of the Twenties
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    Beautiful Bungalows of the Twenties

    By Building Age Pub.

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    This handy reference displays a variety of handsome bungalows built in the early 1920s from Maine to California. Included are illustrations of charming bungalows for a small family, a farm bungalow with a novel siding treatment, a stucco bungalow design, a chalet in Los Angeles, and other models. 43 double-page spreads of halftones and line illustrations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateSep 6, 2012
    ISBN9780486157818
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      Beautiful Bungalows of the Twenties - Building Age Pub.

      Bungalow

      Why the Bungalow is Popular

      THE tendency of today among families of moderate incomes is towards homes with no more rooms than is necessary, these being located as conveniently as possible. As regards appearance, the main demand is that the house shall look like an attractive, comfortable home lived in by a happy family.

      The bungalow meets this perhaps better than does any other type of home.

      With the true bungalow, all the rooms are on one floor. This provides the conveniences of an apartment with the advantages of a country home. There is no climbing of stairs, a popular feature where there are elderly folks; the atmosphere is especially cozy and homelike by reason of the very intimacy of the plan, and it can be furnished in a free and easy fashion that may be handled inexpensively and yet most artistically.

      One is generally accustomed to consider all homes with long sweeping roofs as bungalows, especially in the East. Indeed this term is often applied to all homes built in the country for there is a homelike cosiness about the word bungalow that is delightfully attractive in itself.

      Where there are one or two rooms on the second floor, the roof having the characteristic bungalow sweep, the home is generally called a bungalow or, more correctly, a semi-bungalow. Homes that are a story and a half, without the bungalow characteristics, are correctly termed cottages. As they are likewise frequently called bungalows, this has given rise to the term cottage-bungalow as a means of designating this type.

      The bungalow is built on all sorts of sites, although it generally presents its best appearance when placed where the country is rather rugged, with trees and shrubs around. This is especially true of the more informal types, the severe colonial being somewhat too prim for anything but a suburban setting.

      Because the bungalow is so popular, so capable of being handled with wide variety of design and yet an easy harmony, many groups of bungalows called bungalow courts have been built, especially in California. These bungalow courts are really little individual apartments built around a central court which may contain a fountain, flower gardens, trees, etc. The grounds are in fact community grounds, presenting an appearance that is far more striking than could one of the houses built alone. Each has its own striking note, a note that adds to and is helped by the appearance of every one of the others.

      Groups of friends who are interested in homes in the country would do well to give this matter of the bungalow court serious consideration. It is quite conceivable that the occasional court with its central heating plant cared for by an all year round janitor, who acts as gardener and man of all work, may well be the type of home that will be owned by the average man of moderate means a score or so of years from now.

      Several of these courts, as well as a large number of individual bungalows, are illustrated in this book.

      All types of architecture are given, the Spanish, Italian, Colonial, English, Mission, Swiss, etc. There are ideas here on all styles of bungalow homes, ideas which will well repay the reader who studies this book with a view towards adapting those ideas to the home of which he has dreamed and saved for.

      A Colonial Bungalow at Pine Valley, N.J.

      Charles Barton Keen, Architect

      A Three-Room Colonial Bungalow at Pine Valley, N. J.

      Upon approaching this little bungalow, perhaps the most unusual feature that strikes one is the exceptionally heavy shadow cast by the clapboards. This effect is gained by the placing of a cyma reversa, or reversed ogee molding, under the lower end of each clapboard. This molding gives a body to the shadows that is indeed charming.

      The small porch is typically Colonial. The slender columns are simply paneled, the caps being devoid of ostentatious ornamentation. Pilasters, or half columns, finish against the house wall, lending the appearance of supporting that part of the roof to the advantage of apparent stability.

      The manner in which the clapboards are finished

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