HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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UNE, I9IO 
The rather high two-story rear wing of the bungalow shown on the 
preceding page robs it of the right to the title 
White enameled wainscoting and an unusual type of built-in buffet 
are found in the dining room 
the true Indian bungalow. There is never a second story, never 
dormer windows to break the long simple roof planes that appear 
to come down, particularly at the ends or corners, nearly to the 
ground. 
In adapting this type of building to our own needs we realize 
at the very outset that there are two forces working against the 
adoption of the true bungalow characteristics. One of these is 
the element of cost; a building with all its rooms upon the 
ground floor is the most expensive kind to build. There is more 
wall surface and roof area in proportion to the enclosed space 
than in a building of two or more stories. Then, too, there is 
An interesting shingled bungalow at Belle Terre, Long Island, the plan 
of which is shown at the right. Aymar Embury, architect 
A shingled bungalow at Burlingame, Cal. (plan at right), which cost, 
with barn and outbuildings, $10,500. Sylvain Schnaittacher, architect 
a common prejudice against having our bedrooms on the ground 
level, particularly since we do not have to contend with the 
burning heat of India. There the deep air space enclosed in the 
roof above low ceilings is a necessary protection against the sun. 
With us the air space above even the second-story rooms is suffi¬ 
cient for protective purposes, this being about six or eight feet 
high in a bungalow that is twenty-five or thirty feet wide. When 
we meet the problem of lighting and ventilating these bedrooms, 
however, the main difficulty of adapting the bungalow type be¬ 
comes apparent. With the addition of dormer windows the 
attractive simplicity of the 
roof is at once spoiled. To 
secure head-room in the bed¬ 
rooms the whole roof must 
be raised, and with this 
change the building loses at 
once its similarity to the real 
bungalow. So if we are to 
be free to call our summer 
home a bungalow it should 
have all of its rooms on the 
ground floor. 
Granting, then, that our 
bungalow shall be a one- 
story affair—or at least that 
any space on an upper floor 
shall be of minor import¬ 
ance, without the necessity 
for much outside light, let 
us look into the matter of 
planning the main floor. 
Simple as a bungalow ap¬ 
pears outwardly, an econom¬ 
ical arrangement of living- 
room, dining-room, service 
and bedrooms, with means 
of ready intercommunica¬ 
tion, is not easily accom¬ 
plished. The first rough 
draft of our floor plan will 
probably reveal the fact that 
we are wasting twenty-five 
per cent, of the whole area 
in hall space. As has been 
said above, the true Indian 
bungalow usually has its 
By reason of the sloping site a 
laundry was built under a rear 
corner 
The central living-room type with 
a bath to each two bedrooms 
