Definition of a Bungalow

Since I have told everyone we are building a bungalow--the question has been asked,"What is a bungalow?"
A bungalow is a small house with one of each room on the first floor, extra rooms are in the attic.  In other words there are no formals.  They will always have a front porch either half way across the front or a full porch all the way acrtoss the front.  The word bundglow comes from India.  In England Bungalows only have one floor.

Originally a newly married couple would build the house, with one floor, living room, dining room, kitchen, one bedroom and one bath.  When they decided to start a family they would add additional bedrooms in the attic.  Some bungalows were built with one flloor and the stairway to the second floor before the second floor was built.

When we lived in Beaumont one of hte museum docents had one of these houses.  The couple had the house built when they married.  In the front foyer was the stairway to the--blank wall.  They never ended up having any children so the stairway never did anything but decorate the foyer.

Bungalow Progress

The sheet rocking is almost done.  This is from the second floor library (loft) looking down at the living room.

At the top of the picture, below,  the green is the floor of the loft.  The big wooden thing in the middle is the frame for the two sided fireplace.  On either side are the arched doorways going into the dining room.  I especially love the two sided fireplace.  When I was a little kid I went to my Great Uncle Rufus and Aunt Treva's new house.  They had a two sided fireplace and I have always wanted one!!

This is looking from the dining room into the kitchen.  The larger arch will be a pass through from the kitchen.  The door you can see on the right goes out on to the dining porch.

This is the master bedroom.  Notice all the doorways are very wide and can accomodate as wheel chair.

You can see a tiny part of the tray ceiling--I didn't ask for that, it was included!  The doorway goes into the master bath.

The bricking is about half done.  We chose the red brick like so many of the old bungalows on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle have.

Here you can see the "3 over 1" windows--also a staple of the old Bungalows.  Around the windows will be pale blue siding.  The trim on the corners and around the eaves will be the color of the windows.  (That is me peeking out.)

BUT we still need to sell our other house in Regal Park!!  We close on my parents house this Friday. 1 down 1 to go!!