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Latest Progress
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17 December 2011 — Doors
Been awhile since I updated things. In the meantime, I've built bookcases for neighbor and other things like trimming out the kitchen window and the windows in the back hallway. I also ordered the last doors from TruStile. Installed them on the back hallway, the top of the stairs into the basement and on the bathroom. Now I can finish the trim and then final coat of paint on the kitchen walls. Click here to view more progress pics of the kitchen. |
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The Craftsman / Prairie Bungalow Style (1900 to 1929)
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The popular bungalow style was adapted to both expensive and modest budgets—think Greene and Greene to Sears or Aladdin ready-cut mail-order homes. It was due to this adaptability that bungalows spread across the country filling entire subdivisions with charming, practical homes.
Known for their low roofs with generous overhangs, deep porches, and honest architectural elements, bungalows were intended to be built with natural, site-specific materials, and to blend into the environment.
A "Western" bungalow design—evoking America's vision of a pine wooded West—could mean a home with dark green shingles on the second floor and brown horizontal siding at the first floor, all trimmed in brown. The "natural look" was by no means law, however. Similarly styled houses could have pale yellow stucco and white trim—colors more suitable to the bright skies and white beaches of Florida or Southern California.
Bungalow is usually described as a form, not a style. It can have detailing that makes it a certain style—and experts agree that most bungalows are arts-and-crafts style, or a simplified craftsman style. A bungalow generally has most of these qualities:
- Built between 1900 and 1929
- One or one-and-a-half stories
- Low-pitched, hipped roof
- Overhanging eaves
- Strong horizontal lines
- Restrained ornamentation such as friezes around windows and doors, or as bands under the eaves
- Generous porch with heavy columns, often with rock or stone supports
- Siding often stucco, stone or brick
- Double-hung or casement windows
- Living room joined to the dining room with an arch or columns between
- Living room doubles as the family room
- Fireplace
- Built-in cabinets or sideboard
- Small kitchen
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My house is a red brick bungalow built in 1922. It is in the 'Liberty-Wells' area—directly west of the 'Sugar House' neighborhood—in Salt Lake City, Utah. City records also call this area the 'East Waterloo Addition.'
This area was originally all farmland and as such the soil is a rich, dark brown. In fact, the original farm house for the area is just one block to the north and is a three-story red brick home with a turret on the front facade.
This photo was taken after I finished the first big project—putting on a new roof. I had to strip off one layer of asphalt and two layers of cedar shingles before putting down new underlayment, a ridge vent, and new asphalt shingles.
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