BUILDING BUNGALOWS 



BY RAWSON WOODMAN IIADDON 



WHEN all olher methods of aiTangemcnt for the 

 interior of the house have failed, one may turn, 

 with fair expectation of success, to the one-story 

 type of building which we have come to know — quite 

 improperly — by the name of "bungalow." 



FRONT ELEVATION OF HOUSE AT SOUTH RIVER, 

 EMBURY II, ARCHITECT 



MARYLAND. AYMAR 



A very general idea seems to be that this one-story 

 house arrangement is so simple a problem that it need be 

 by no means as carefully thought out and studied as a 

 more formal type of residence; and a second unfortunate 

 idea is that it is a cheap method of building. Both are 

 serious mistakes. 



In the first place, it is well to remember that in the 

 "bungalow " there is more outer wall smface to be covered, 

 and more roof area in proportion to the enclosed part of 

 the building than in a house of two, let us say, or more 

 stories in height. And it is probable that in the majority 

 of cases the same accommodations in the number and 

 size of rooms could ha\-c been secured at a somewhat 



smaller cost in a two-story house, or a larger number of 

 rooms might have been had in a two-story house for the 

 same amount. 



These items, of course, are naturally to be taken into 

 consideration in estimating the comparative costs of a 

 one- or two-story house, before deciding upon 

 the type of plan to be used. 



It is probable that we are in the habit of 

 considering the "bungalow" type inexpensive 

 l)ocause of the fact that in man}' instances, 

 where the cost of erection has been low, the 

 building itself was little more than a camp. In 

 it the owners were, perhaps, satisfied with the 

 liarest accommodations and cheap worlcman- 

 ship and material of a kind that would not be 

 tolerated if a larger or more permanent struct- 

 ure were used. 



Even with the rooms of the house spread 

 out on a single floor, the plan may be a fail- 

 ure notwithstanding many good points in favor 

 of the general type. It may be its very sim- 

 plicity, or what we take for simplicity, that so 

 often lures us into a false sense of security and 

 into a certain amount of carelessness and 

 thoughtlessness in planning at the very points 

 where the greatest care has been exercised in 

 the successful examples of the type that the prospective 

 builder may have seen and admired. 



But the very fact of its simplicity in plan and in ex- 

 terior design brings new problems and new chances for 



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PLAN OF HOUSE NO. 1 

 At Southern Pines, North Carolina. Aymar Embury II, Architect. 



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PLAN OF HOUSE NO. 2 

 At Southern Pines. North Carolina. Aymar Emburj* II. Architect. 



