…in it’s simplest definition is ‘a one-story house’.
Now, go tell that to Old House Journal or American Bungalow and see what that’ll get ya ‘cept a kick in the backside.
…in it’s simplest definition is ‘a one-story house’.
Now, go tell that to Old House Journal or American Bungalow and see what that’ll get ya ‘cept a kick in the backside.
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<The answer to your question can be as simple or as complicated as you'd like it to be. If you would really like to know a lot about our American Bungalows, their origins and unique characteristics, I recommend that you purchase a copy of The American Bungalow by Clay Lancaster. This is, in my opinion, the definitive work on the origin of bungalows and the various styles that exist overseas as well as in various regions of this country. When I began reading this book I couldn't put it down. In fact, I began reading it on a Sunday morning and cancelled my work on the following Monday so I could continue reading and finish it.
That said, you probably aren't interested in getting that involved in understanding the term bungalow. Heck, just the origin of the word 'bungalow' is a fascinating story in itself. I suppose you really want to know what the distinguishing characteristics of what we would characterize a bunglow today would be in this country.
For the most part, I think you can say they are small, one or one-and-a-half story homes with a gable roof, frame construction with roof lines that are relatively low-pitched and architectural elements that give the home a strong horizontal flavor - horizontal clapboard siding, a full-width front porch, deep overhangs at the eaves, horizontal banding and fretwork, pergolas that extend from the sides, and the use of prominent woodwork - heavy brackets supporting the gable ends of roofs. You'll also see squared off and simple trim, use of small-paned glass windows, earth-tone colors and a general sense of blending in with the lot around it.
Some folks have a hard time differentiating a bungalow from a craftsman. In truth, there is not that much difference, since bungalow houses were built primarily during the craftsman era. Bungalow owners today will say that a large craftsman can't possibly be a bungalow, when in fact many of the early bungalows were two-storied, often very large homes. In California, some of the best examples of west coat 'bungalow architecture' are the Blacker and the Gamble houses in Pasadena, that were designed by Greene and Greene. Most craftsman houses have nearly identical elements to bungalows, just on two stories.
In this country, you'll find clapboard bungalows on the east coast, stucco and brick bungalows, some of the designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, in the midwest, and tons and tons of bungalows on the west coast that are very similar to those found on the east coast but have deeper overhangs and more of a low-slung appearance.>
Much thanks to Mike O'Handley of JLC for these comments.
Then you've got your Chicago Bungalow, a style unto itself.
http://www.chicagobungalow.org/
whatchatryin'todo? Start an argument?
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It would be more entertaining than a polijive discussion if I can use the term 'discussion' so liberally. Err, wait...not liberally! I mean...Stop! Guys, this is not a poli thread. Please refrain from embarking on a poli-rant because of a multi use word.
If a small story and a half had a mansard roof could it be defined as a bungalow?
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"If a small story and a half had a mansard roof could it be defined as a bungalow?"
No, that sounds more like a bungle up
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No, that sounds more like a bungle up
LOL. Piffin, you never stop to amaze.
a moving tareget is hard to hit so I amaze while running...gotta go now.
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It derives from the Hindi word for a single storey building with a verandah all around.
English expats built similar homes when they returned to UK and called them by the Hindi name.
IanDG
Bungal-ode
ÊBurges Johnson
There's a jingle in the jungle,
'Neath the juniper and pine,
They are mangling the tangle,
Of the underbrush and vine,
And my blood is all a-tingle
At the sound of blow on blow,
As I count each single shingle
On my bosky bungalow.
There's a jingle in the jungle,
I am counting every nail,
And my mind is bungaloaded,
Bungaloping down a trail;
And I dream of every ingle
Where I angle at my ease,
Naught to set my nerves a-jingle,
I may bungle all I please.
For I oft get bungalonely
In the mingled human drove,
And I long for bungaloafing
In some bungalotus grove,
In a cooling bung' location
Where no troubling trails intrude,
'Neath some bungalowly rooftree
In east bungalongitude.
Oh, I think with bungaloathing
Of the strangling social swim,
Where they wrangle after bangles
Or for some new-fangled whim;
And I know by bungalogic
That is all my bungalown
That a little bungalotion
Mendith every mortal moan!
Oh, a man that's bungalonging
for the dingle and the loam
Is a very bungalobster
If he dangles on at home.
Catch the bungalocomotive;
If you cannot face the fee,
Why, a bungaloan'll do it--
You can borrow it of me!
Published in Good Housekeeping, 1909
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