Know Your Different Home Styles
Homes are places of comfort, refuge, and residence; a man's castle
, a mother's den, and a child's treasure trove of nostalgic memories. In literal terms, homes are the physical locale bearing structures wherein a family or individual can take shelter in, rest at, and be able to amass personal possessions. The majority of modern households possess sanitary utilities and a place for food preparation as well as rooms to sleep in during the night. Homes aren't unique to humans either, because other animals in the wild can also make homes for themselves or be situated in a human-run, domesticated environment. Homes may also connote to an emotional or mental state of comfort or refuge too; that is, a state induced by being around a familiar place, people, and so on, to be more specific.
Different Types of Homes
Through the years, housing plans and homes have evolved and developed into something sophisticated yet streamlined. The discovery of improved construction methods, advanced design techniques, and new materials have paved the way into altering the traditional house plans of the past. Nevertheless, there are still quite a few commonalities between homes of the past and homes of the present. Ergo, the enumerated housing types below still exist even in today's world of instant fixes and advanced technology, as though the rules of home building remain timeless as always:
Cape Cod: This one to one-and-a-half-storey house is commonly made by wood and enclosed in shingles or wide clapboard. It's characterized by its signature steep roof that lies low to ground level, its symmetrically arranged doors and windows, its signature center-hall floor plan, its hardwood floors, and its large central fireplace that's linked to each room of the structure.
Classic Cottage: This house looks like the Cape Cod in terms of style, but it differentiates itself from its counterpart by having an increased amount of space, a higher amount of open areas for sunlight to shine through, a higher eaves-front wall, and a much shallower roof. It also features small windows that line the top front of the house, while its main windows have double-hung, multi-paned sash.
Bungalow: This one-and-a-half to two-storey house type typically has roofs that are either set in a clipped gable, hip, or gable (if it has hipped roofs, then they are best used as spacious attics), hefty porches, and wide, suspended eaves.
Colonial: This house type is about the same size as a bungalow and features a medium-pitched roof with a four-sided and balanced shape. What's more, it has five windows that are aligned to the upper level of the house's facade, classically detailed eaves, a decorative crown on the centered front door, and a lower level that has four more windows to spare.
Suburban Ranch: This house type can either be U-shaped, L-shaped, or rectangular in construction depending on the preferences of the homeowner who commissioned the design of the home. It mostly has an attached garage, a low-pitched gable roof with deep-set eaves, and recently engineered metal casement windows that can be picture, sliding, or large double-hung windows.
Gable and Ell: This L- or T-shaped house type (which usually contains a porch in the interior corner of its L-based structure) that's one-and-a-half to two-stories tall usually sports double-hung sash windows featuring wood-clapboard siding and a gable roof that's the same height as the main roof.
by: Beverly Manago
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