Bungalow

As bungalows are one or one and a half storeys, strategically planted trees and shrubs are usually sufficient to block the view of neighbours.

This architectural technique avoids the need for special arches or lintels to support the brick wall above the windows.

[citation needed] From 1891 the Federation Bungalow style swept across Australia, first in Camberwell, Victoria, and through Sydney's northern suburbs after 1895.

From about 1908 to the 1930s, the California bungalow style was very popular in Australia with a rise of interest in single-family homes and planned urban communities.

In rural Bangladesh, the concept is often called Bangla ghar ("Bengali-style house") and remains popular.

The main construction material is corrugated steel sheets or red clay tiles, while past generations used wood, bamboo, and khar straw.

In India, the term bungalow or villa refers to any single-family unit, as opposed to an apartment building, which is the norm for Indian middle-class city living.

The normal custom for an Indian bungalow is one storey,[11] but as time progressed many families built larger two-storey houses to accommodate humans and pets.

In Bandra, a suburb of India's commercial capital Mumbai, numerous colonial-era bungalows exist; they are threatened by removal and replacement of ongoing development.In a distinctly utilitarian usage, the dak bungalow was formerly used by circuit riding British jurists (and other officials such as the mailman), as well as quotidian private citizens, the most substantial of which have been converted into local governmental buildings and the like.

"[14] They were built by the British to house their "military officers, High Court judges and other members of the colonial society's great and good.

[16] In the post-colonial period, the term bungalow has been adapted and used to refer to any stand-alone residence, regardless of size, architectural style, or era in which it was built.

Local real estate lingo commonly includes the word "bungalow" when referring to residences that are more normally described as "detached", "single-family homes", or even "mansions" in other countries.

Manufacturers included Boulton & Paul Ltd, who made corrugated iron bungalows as advertised in their 1889 catalogue, which were erected by their men on the purchaser's light brickwork foundation.

[18] Examples include Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum,[19] and Castle Bungalow at Peppercombe, North Devon, owned by the Landmark Trust; it was built by Boulton and Paul in the 1920s.

Bungalows became popular in the United Kingdom between the two World Wars and very large numbers were built, particularly in coastal resorts, giving rise to the pejorative adjective, "bungaloid", first found in the Daily Express from 1927: "Hideous allotments and bungaloid growth make the approaches to any city repulsive".

Keeping in line with the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, the bungalows were constructed using local building materials.

A large fraction of the older residential buildings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are bungalows in a similar Arts and Crafts style to those of Chicago,[24] but usually with the gable perpendicular to the street.

The overwater bungalow is a form of, mainly high end, tourist accommodation inspired by the traditional stilt houses of South Asia and the Pacific.

The first overwater bungalows were constructed on the French Polynesian island of Ra’iātea in 1967 by three American hotel owners, Jay Carlisle, Donald McCallum and Hugh Kelley.

By the seventies tourism to French Polynesia and the Pacific Islands in general was booming and overwater bungalows, sometimes by then called water villas, became synonymous with the region, particularly for honeymoons and romantic getaways.

[25] Their proliferation would have been much greater but for the fact that overwater bungalows need certain conditions to be structurally viable, i.e. that the water surrounding them be consistently very calm.

On narrower lots, public areas are at the front of the building and such an organization is typically not called a "ranch bungalow".

The term ultimate bungalow is commonly used to describe a very large and detailed Craftsman-style house in the United States.