Bungalows: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling, and Build

by Louis Wasserman, M. Caren Connolly

The books in this series are filled with design ideas and inspiration for remodeling, renovating, and building houses in classic American architectural styles. Readers will discover innovative strategies for living comfortably in traditional-styled homes.

Genres: Architecture, Art, Design, Nonfiction, History

202 pages, Hardcover

First published October 10, 2002

Reviews

[Alyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bungalow love! I appreciate the examples showing design principles behind the style- how this style can be tastefully combined with different aestetics. I appreciate some of the arts and crafts look, but too much dark wood overwhelms me.

[Maggie Grace · Rating 2 out of 5]

Seems more tailored to people looking for huge bungalows. I have owned two charmingly small bungalows in San Antonio and those type of houses seem underrepresented in this book. Thinking of building a smallish bungalow for retirement. Not many ideas for me in this one.

[Ray Savarda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good - I like a lot of the ideas. Some very pretty houses, at least to me, and as I look to downsize, these are appropriate-sized houses.
All about updating and new bungalow-style houses, history but mostly examples and attributes.

[Sally Kilpatrick]

Research?

This book was surprisingly interesting. I needed to read it to learn about remodeling and modernizing, but I found myself wishing people didn't modernize as much as they do.

I also learned that I truly love the bungalow layout. Who knew?

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dated.

[Sophie Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh I have actual interior and exterior design aspirations and dreams now

[Alger Smythe-Hopkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very so-so. The premise is a celebration all things bungalow, and the promise is to act as an inspiration for your own home: I however found nothing too original or interesting within. The photographs are pleasing and the chatty historical asides are worth reading, but the renovations consistently require expanding the previous home footprint, an addition here, a popup roof there. This emphasis upon redesign leads right into a large gap in the text; there is a lack of "before" floor plans when there are "after" plans. I believe the authors felt that the layout of the modern bungalow is either so familiar and standard that they don't need to include such tedious additional information. This emphasis upon rebuilding to the exclusion of making the original space work also made the book less useful to me, whose home is on a small lot and whose neighborhood is decidedly against anyone popping the roof and thereby disrupting the orderly lookalike harmony of the street. The only part of the book remaining as inspiration are the room decorations, but these have all been seen before, and nothing dates so fast as interior design tips. A solid 3 stars for me.

[Meadow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mmmm...bungalow.

[Michael Heath-Caldwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite an interesting book on American house style bungalows or stand along timber houses.