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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar00newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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4—The Living-Room in the Bungalow of Mrs. D. H. Girouard at Altadena, California. Paneled Walls and Ribbed Ceiling in Chestnut, a Nook with Paneled Seat and Bookcases and an Open Fireplace JlOOCSPLrtN Plan of Bungalow Shown in Figures 4 and 5. The Plan is Typical of the Bungalow with all its Living and Sleeping-Rooms Placed on One Floor the simple, almost plain ex- terior. The well constructed bungalows, of from five to eight rooms, usually range in cost from $2,000 to $6,000. The high price of labor in California makes the outlay for a bungalow greater than it otherwise would be, for the reason that the chief item of ex- pense in the average bunga- lows is found in the costly and elaborate finish of their interiors. In consequence of the high price of labor in California, bungalows, sim- ilar to those illustrated in this article, can be built for Eastern requirements for about one-quarter to one- third less in the East than the prices quoted herewith. Great possibilities and un- limited scope are permitted in the building of a bunga- low, and practically every known type of wooden con- struction, from the shingle medium, such as is shown in Fig. 7, to the log cabin style presented in Fig. 15, has been employed in the bunga- low on the west coast. In It he
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3°VT/M LLEVATI°n 5—Bungalow Built for Mrs. D. H. Girouard at Altadena, California

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