Craftsman Style Home Plans Offer
Simple Yet Elegant Porches
Craftsman style home plans incorporate natural materials to make a uniquely beautiful home and inviting porch.
Mary told me that she'd love to have a Craftsman home some day.
Easily identifiable, a craftsman home has low-pitched roof lines that extend over a wide porch with deep overhanging eaves.
Also called, bungalows or California bungalows, these homes were extremely popular around the world between 1910-1925 and are treasured today for their artistic style and functionality.
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Bungalows have a signature look - 1 or 1½ stories, sloping roofs and eaves with visible rafters, and a gable over the main portion of the house. They are horizontally designed and use local materials and transitional plantings to blend in with their surroundings.
Craftsman style home plans are charming and usually include lots of built-in-features and beautiful woodwork - probably reasons why Mary loves these homes.
Characteristics of craftsman-style or bungalow homes:
- Porches are built beneath the main roof
- Tapered, square columns supporting roof
- Larger bungalows might have asymmetrical "L" shaped porches which were often enclosed at a later date due to street noise
- Low-pitched roof lines, gabled or hipped
- Deep overhanging eaves with exposed rafters
- Decorative brackets under eaves
- Double-hung windows
- Hand-crafted stone or woodwork, often mixed materials throughout structure
- Wood shingle siding, wood clap-board siding or cut stone cladding
- Wide Window and door casings
Craftsman-Style Porch Pictures
The following craftsman home styles are generously provided
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Craftsman porch plans and home plans
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Here are some home and porch plans that you can acquire from Family Home Plans to build your home or to use for adding a great porch!
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Bungalow designs spread across the country through mail-order catalogs like the Sears Catalog. A variety of firms offered pre-cut homes, which were shipped by rail or ship and assembled on site. These were most common in locations without a strong existing construction industry, or for company towns, to be built in a short time. The majority of bungalows included some elements of mass production; typically doors, windows, and built-in furnishings such as bookcases, desks, or folding beds were sourced from lumber yards or from catalogs.
Bungalows can be found in the older neighborhoods of most American cities. In fact, they were so popular for a time that many cities have what is called a "Bungalow Belt" of homes built in the 1920s.
We hope this page helped you learn something new about Craftsman style home plans or design.
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