Dormers, if present, tended to be in the front with a gable roof or occasionally a shed roof. Dormers, if they existed, usually had low shed roofs. Perhaps the most distinctive decorative element on a bungalow was the triangular knee brace that projected from the face of the front gable of the roof. Although meant to suggest the extension of the beams that supported the roof rafter, they were usually decorative and, as such, could be assembled in a variety of ways, depending on aesthetic requirements.
Windows were most often double-hung with large, single panes of glass in each sash; occasionally the top sash had multiple panes. Some bungalows had casement windows. The windows were usually arranged as singles, grouped in pairs, or, for a prominent gable feature, arranged as a threesome.
Window trim was always simple and flat wood. A front porch was a quintessential part of the bungalow design. Most had a unique supporting-post design, with short, square upper posts resting on massive piers or solid porch railings constructed of any one of a variety of materials, including stone, brick, concrete block, stucco, clapboard, or shingle.
The piers, often used in place of posts, frequently began at ground level and extended without break up to the roofline of the porch. Often they tapered as they rose, thus accentuating their structural purpose. Front doors were usually wood paneled with a small multi-paned window in the top. Wentworth has remodeled many DC area homes, including Bungalows.
Visit our photo gallery! We are so proud to show the kitchen and family room to friends and relatives, and love their reactions gasps of awe and jealousy. Mike and Enio were amazing, working so hard -- every single day, beginning at 7am -- and paying such close attention to details I never would have noticed. The same could be said of Prairie School houses. A issue of The Craftsman with objects of the period on a Gustav Stickley lamp table. Photo by Josh Beeman. Artful handicraft and wood, as promoted by Gustav Stickley for Bungalows and houses of the Craftsman era.
Photo by Rob Gray. Other house writers soon understood the relationship between Craftsman houses and the Bungalow. The bungalow is usually thought of as a small house. Yet at first, in America at least, the style had nothing to do with size. True Southern California Bungalows at the turn of the century were quite large, with rambling floor plans, extensive grounds, three or five or seven bedrooms, living rooms of 20 x 25 feet, and multiple porches.
All of this was about to change. During this period, home ownership was becoming a realizable American dream for a middle class whose numbers were exploding.
Speculative building and patternbook companies were booming. A need existed for small and simple house that would look good even if plainly built and furnished. Perhaps a bit radical bedrooms on the parlor floor?! Any anyway, its more radical features could be softened by builders who designed for mass appeal. First to go was its strict definition as a one-story house. Early Bungalows were low-lying, rather rough structures buried in the woods or on a hillside or among the boulders at the seashore.
But later builders were creating suburbia. If it had more than just a bedroom or two, a one-story house was prohibitively expensive; a bungalow has more foundation, exposed wall surface, and roof in proportion to the space enclosed than does a two-story house.
Charles White Jr. What really happened during the bungalow building boom is that the bungalow was no longer a pure structural type, but a broader house style. We cannot look back now and say that literally millions of homes, many of them picturesque, well built, and stylish, were aberrations. The first modern bungalow The first modern British bungalows were designed by little-known English architect, John Taylor, , and built at Westgate-on-Sea, Kent between and Courtesy of the Birchington Heritage Trust.
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