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3500 BCE
Swedish-Log Cabin
- Round logs
- V notching
- Wide Spaces between logs
- Clapboard gables
- Sharply peaked roof
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1500 BCE
Earth Sheltered
- This design allows cross-ventilation and access to natural light.
- Surrounding Landscape
- Grass all over (landscape)
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500 BCE
English Cottage
- Sharply pitched roofs
- Brick or stone
- Chimney
- Sometimes asymmetrical
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1200
Half Timber
- Made of timber with spaces between them.
- Plaster, wattle, and daub, etc.
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1300
French-Country/Manor
- Hipped roof
- Stone
- Brick
- High arched windows
- Steep Design factors.
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1485
Tudor
- Stucco exterior
- Front-facing gables
- Half-timber framing
- Brick
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1500
Spanish-Stucco
- Terra cotta roof
- White textured exterior walls
- Arched doorways (arches Everywhere)
- Heavy Wooden doors
- Small Windows
- Tiled
- Lots of vegetation
- Balconies on 2nd floor
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1500
Southern Colonial
- Front Columns
- Balanced Windows
- Pitched roofs
- Second Story porch
- Decorative
- Side Gables
- Entryways
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Cape Cod
- Small and rectangular
- Steep roofs
- Normally on and a half story
- Usually chimney
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Farmhouse
- Wood
- Beams
- Up and Down siding
- White and black/gray Colors
- Cross trim
- Sliding barn doors
- Rustic bricks
- Big porches (wrap around)
- Gabled roofs
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Tidewater South
- 2 stories
- Porches on both levels
- Hip roof Always Built out of wood
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Greek Revival
- Fanlight
- Plaster exterior
- Pilasters Gabled roofs Covered portico entrance
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Gothic Revival
- Pointed arches
- Front-facing gables
- Porches with turned posts or columns
- Steeply pitched roof
- Gables are often topped with finials or cross bracing.
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Victorian
- Decorative trim
- Bay windows
- 2-3 stories
- High ceilings
- Shingles
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Italianate
- Italianate windows were the era's signature
- One-over-one or two-over-two glazing and exuberant trims - U-shaped crowns with brackets and pedimented crowns
- Decorated Hoods
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Queen Anne
- Abundance of decor
- Steeply pitched roof with irregular shapes
- Cross gables
- Asymmetrical
- Large full-width porch
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Prairie Style
- Strong Geometry and massing, including large central chimneys
- Brick or stucco exteriors
- Open, asymmetric floor plans
- connected indoor and outdoor spaces
- Interior wood banding
- Restrained use of applied orientation
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Bungalow
- Single-storied
- Sloping roof
- Opened floor plan
- Simple design
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Craftsmen
- Overhang on the roof
- Natural colors
- Windows
- Stone brick or stucco
- Accents of woods
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Split-Level
- Short set of stairs leading upstairs and then another pair of stairs leading downstairs
- Large entryway
- Attached garage at the lowest level
- Windows at ground level (basement)
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Solar
- Most windows face south to optimize thermal energy
- Dark-colored walls to absorb heat
- Sunspace- Room meant for collecting heat
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Ski Cabin Style
- Lots of wood-framed windows
- Multiple stories
- Stone walls for first or lower stories
- High ceilings
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Costal House
- Many stories
- Open under the house for cars
- Neutral-looking wood
- Some fun colors: yellow, Blue, and pastel
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Adobe
- Thick Walls
- Flat, rounded roof.
- The house color is usually cream, tan, and yellow.
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Smart House
- Smart home devices are connected and can be accessed through one central point—a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or game console.
- One home automation system can control door locks, televisions, thermostats, home monitors, cameras, lights, and even appliances such as refrigerators.
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Tiny House
- Possibly on wheels
- Small and simple features
- And well throughout siding