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Southern
Southern House style is a broad term that encompasses Colonial Revival style houses usually built of wood or brick with pitched or gabled roofs that often have dormers. Southern house incorporate classical features like columns, pediments, and shutters and some designs have elaborate porticoes and cornices recalling aspects of pre-Civil War plantation architecture. In fact ... Read More
Cape Cod
A Cape Cod is a style of house originating in New England in the 17th century. It is traditionally characterized by a low, broad frame building, generally a story and a half high, with a steep, pitched roof with end gables, a large central chimney and very little ornamentation. Traditional Cape Cod houses were very simple: symmetrically designed with a central front door ... Read More
Victorian
A brightly painted exterior, welcoming wrap-around front porch, multiple gables, and ornate details such as turned posts, spindles, brackets, gingerbread ornament along the eaves, and multiple shingle shapes are some of the characteristics of Victorian home plans. This explosion of ornamental detail was made possible by the development of manufacturing machinery for mass production in ... Read More
Italianate
The Italianate house style is distinctive by its pronounced exaggeration of many Italian Renaissance characteristics: emphatic eaves supported by corbels, low-pitched roofs barely discernible from the ground, or even flat roofs with a wide projection. A tower is often incorporated hinting at the Italian belvedere or even campanile tower. Motifs drawn from the Italianate style were incorporated into the commercial builders' vocabulary, and ... Read More
Semi detached
Semi-detached housing (often abbreviated to semi in the UK, Canada and Australia, as in "three-bedroom semi") consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin. This style of housing, although built throughout the world, is commonly seen as ... Read More
Bungalow
Canada uses the American definition of bungalow to mean a single family dwelling, though it is sometimes also used in the South African sense, to apply to a vacationer's cottage. A bungalow is a type of house, with varying meanings across the world. Common features to many of these definitions include being detached, low-rise (single or one-and-a-half stories), and the use ... Read More
Neoclassical
In the late 1800s and the first half of the twentieth century, many American homes used details borrowed from the classical past. Neoclassical house plans recall the architectural traditions of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Renaissance period. Usually two or two-and-a-half stories, these dignified homes typically feature a symmetrical shape, a simple side-gabled roof, and ... Read More
Spanish Colonial Revival
Spanish Colonial Revival Style was a United States architectural stylistic movement that came about in the early 20th century, starting in California and Florida as a regional expression related to history, environment, and nostalgia. Based on the Spanish Colonial architecture from the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Spanish Colonial Revival style updated these forms and detailing for a new century and culture. The Spanish Colonial ... Read More
Tudor Revival
Tudor houses in the United States & Canada are modern-day re-inventions and are more accurately called Tudor Revival or Medieval Revival. Some Tudor Revival houses mimic humble Medieval cottages. They may even include a false thatched roof. Other Tudor Revival homes suggest Medieval palaces. They may have overlapping gables, parapets, and beautifully patterned brick or stonework. These historic details ... Read More
Traditional
A traditional home is the most common style in the Canada. It is a mix of many classic, simple designs typical of the country's many regions. Traditional home styles have been assigned to key periods of development, from the Colonial period in the 18th century to the Modern Movements of the 20th century.Common features include little ornamentation, ... Read More
Colonial Revival
Colonial Revival architecture was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own heritage and architecture. This also came after the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 reawakened Americans to their colonial past, and was accelerated by ... Read More
French-Canadian Colonial
French Colonial a style of architecture used by the French during colonization. Many former French colonies, have previously been reluctant to promote their colonial architecture as an asset for tourism; however, in recent times, the new-generation of local authorities have somewhat 'embraced' the architecture.French Colonial house plans are inspired by the rustic manors found across rural ... Read More