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100 Turn-of-the-Century Brick Bungalows with Floor Plans

100 Turn-of-the-Century Brick Bungalows with Floor Plans
By Rogers & Manson

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Reprint of fascinating 1912 publication features all the winning entries from a major nationwide competition for bungalow designs — from a tile-roofed hacienda to an elaborate thatch-roofed English cottage. 100 superbly rendered plates show houses in perspective, with floor plans, itemized construction costs, and some landscape planning.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #847785 in Books
  • Published on: 1994-07-13
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

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Charming and fascinating book5
As my husband and I look toward retirement, we are dreaming of the kind of house we will be looking for, or building, when we move. I have always loved the bungalow style for its coziness and nostalgic feeling. This book is full of bungalow concepts, all drawn from a magazine-sponsored contest in the early 1900's for plans for a brick bungalow for $3000. If you buy this book, be sure to get out your magnifying glass so you can read the designers'/architects' comments -- they are very funny! One said that if you think you can actually build a brick bungalow for $3000, you should plan on a thatched roof! I love this book and have perused it, and dreamed over it, many times. I have lots of ad-hoc bookmarks (like, corners torn from the newspaper or discarded mail!) stuck in at floor plans I like. There is a brick marketing "story" in the back of the book that is wonderful of its type.

Insight on a different time5
It is interesting to compare the home plans in this book to the homes of today. The houses in the plans are smaller and most only have one bathroom but they have a charming details that is hard to find in the oversized "McMansions" that are being built today. Unless you are planning on faithfully recreating a house from the early 1900's this book is probably going to most useful as a source of inspiration and good ideas.

Slightly difficult to read3
The sketches and floor plans are a little hard to read by modern standards, as all are hand-lettered, and the designs are a little light on bathrooms, to say nothing of garages, compared to contemporary homes. But the homes are very Picturesque nonetheless, featuring plenty of faux thatched roofs, chimneys, eyebrow dormers, arched entryways, porches and so forth.