•A-Frame –
this contemporary, triangular-shaped home has a roof extending down towards the ground on both sides. Often they may have many larger windows on the front and rear facades. They are popular as vacation homes and in the mountains. This is one contemporary plan that I relly like. They aren't any in Eastmorland, though.
•Apartment Garage –
this design is an apartment-like home above a garage.•Bungalow –
this design is commonly a one-story house with a low-pitched roof. An alternative is a compact one-and-one-half story home containing small rooms. Variations include enclosed front porches, dormers, and bay windows.
•Cape Cod –
these cute homes have a simple one-and-a-half story design, with a distinctive steeply pitched roof, shutters, and centered front door. Variations include dormers and bay windows.•Colonial –
these houses commonly have a rectangular design, which are often characterized by double hung windows with multiple window panes, shutters, and fireplaces. These designs can also an overhanging upper story. Variations include pillars or columns, a fanlight window above the front door, dormers, and paneled doors.
•Condo – this is a small apartment in a multi-unit building called a condominiuim. The individual's unit is privately owned, while the building and land is owned by all individual unit owners. These are common in Hawaii. My family stays in one when we go to Hawii.
*Contemporary - I hate these, but I won't be baist in the description: these houses are very modern-looking, with horizontal siding, stressed angles, and (boring) rooflines.
*Craftsman - These modern houses often have multiclored, earthtone exteriors, varied angles, staggered setbacks, and practical floor plans.
•Dutch Colonial – this barn-like home is a two-story house characterized by a five-point roofline and flared overhanging eaves. Variations include shutters and a front porch. These are practically on every block of Eastmorland!
•English Tudor – this picturesque old English design has many large gables and half-timbered exterior walls, utilizing brick or stucco. Features include diamond shaped windowpanes, and arched windows and doorways. Oh heck, these cute little houses are EVERYWHERE in Eastmorland!
•Federal - often made of brick, this is a stately two-story symmetrical house with a centered front door, sidelights and fanlight window above the door. Further, it has common window styles evenly distributed across the front and sides of the home as well as identical chimneys at the sidewalls of the house. It is somewhat like a colonial.
•Four Square - this two-story, square-box design often has a front porch.
*Modern - These houses aren't so bad, but they aren't my first choice. They can be any design, really-they have flat, or almost-flat roofslots of steel, wroght iron, and metal, modern features, lots of interior glass, and bland siding. These houses look kind of like someone took a sheet of blank paper and slapped a bunch of windows and doors on it. (My opinion, of course!) There is only one in my nieghborhood; it used to be an adorable little CapeCod, but now it looks like a piece of (****). It does NOT belong in my neighborhood!
•Pueblo -- common to the Southwest desert, these earth colored distinctive adobe and stucco houses resemble pueblos of Native Americans. Features include round edged exterior walls, flat roofs and rustic support beams extending through walls.
•Queen Anne - although simpler and less elaborate than a Victorian, it has many similar architectural features such as a round turret, wrap-around porch with gazebo, bay windows and gables. Commonly, it has horizontal bands highlighting differing textures and materials.
•Ranch – this is typically a very long rectangular or "L" shaped home with all rooms on one level. The simple layout features openness and efficient use of space. My mom grew up in two of these in the fifties and sixties, in Menlo Park, California.
•Row House – a series of multi-level houses, connected by common sidewalls and forming a continuous group, each home has its own private entrances. A type of typical row house has individual facades, staggered setbacks, varied heights, and larger yards. These are also really popular in San Fransisco.
•Salt Box – this style is a simple, distinctive design featuring a flat front and a steeply sloped front roof. The rear roof is that of a normal two-story house.
•Semi-detached -- one of two dwellings, this condo of sorts is attached by a common wall, which is located within one building. It is like a duplex, only the two homes are both ground-level. My sister lived in one while she was at college.
•Single Family – this could be any house that's designed to be occupied by only one family.
•Shingle - these homes are covered with dark colored wooden shingles. Features include steeply pitched roofs and porches.
•Spanish - this style of home features a red or maroon tile roof, arched doorways and windows, terra cotta tiled floors, wrought iron accents, light colored stucco, beamed ceilings, patios, and/or courtyards.
•Split Level - Features include that the house appears to have been lifted half out of the ground, so that the lower level has windows. The doorway is halfway up the front of the house between the two floors. Personally, I think ity's a terrible use of space.
•Tidewater - typical features include a wide porch on three or four sides, a hipped roof, and many doors and windows for cross ventilation.
•Townhouse - these designs are commonly a row of narrow homes with small yards and similar floor plans. These are everywhere in Eastmorland!
•Victorian - these are whimsical, extravagantly ornamented houses that may include multi-colored exterior walls and trim, a Widow’s Walk, complex gingerbread trim, towers, multiple tiered rooflines, stained glass work, tall ceilings, hardwood floors, porches and impressive stairways.
Hope these descriptions give you lots of insight as to the different styles there are of houses therse days; enjoy!!
- Herbie131
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