What is this common house style called
January 3, 2025 6:34 AM Subscribe
It is very common style. It is basically
just a single floor with a peaked roof which usually has two bedrooms . The bedrooms would have sloping ceilings. The main floor is just two rooms, a kitchen, with maybe a breakfast nook...and a living room. There is also a single bathroom downstairs. Sometimes there is a dining room. I don't think it is a Cape Cod, but I may be wrong.
just a single floor with a peaked roof which usually has two bedrooms . The bedrooms would have sloping ceilings. The main floor is just two rooms, a kitchen, with maybe a breakfast nook...and a living room. There is also a single bathroom downstairs. Sometimes there is a dining room. I don't think it is a Cape Cod, but I may be wrong.
That definitely could describe a small Cape Cod, but it could describe other styles of house as well. Cape Cods have gable roofs and the front door is generally on the long side of the house rather than the gable end of the house.
posted by mskyle at 6:40 AM on January 3 [3 favorites]
posted by mskyle at 6:40 AM on January 3 [3 favorites]
Hard to say without a picture. This is the book I would reach for to answer your question, though:
A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia Savage McAlester
(also on instagram, if that's your thing)
posted by minervous at 6:41 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia Savage McAlester
(also on instagram, if that's your thing)
posted by minervous at 6:41 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: Thanks, I will try to upload a picture, but I often screw it up somehow.
posted by Czjewel at 6:50 AM on January 3
posted by Czjewel at 6:50 AM on January 3
I've lived in this style of house before and been in many like it; square footprint, front door enters into the living room, the kitchen is to the rear of the house, and there's two bedrooms to one side off a small hallway with the bathroom in between them. Googling comes up with the term "two bedroom bungalow". If you add a bedroom and stretch it out into a rectangle, it becomes a 'rambler'.
Edit: the random toilet in an unfinished basement is a functional part of managing the house's connection to the sewer, to better control backups versus just having a floor drain.
posted by AzraelBrown at 6:51 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
Edit: the random toilet in an unfinished basement is a functional part of managing the house's connection to the sewer, to better control backups versus just having a floor drain.
posted by AzraelBrown at 6:51 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
That's a cape.
posted by bowbeacon at 7:04 AM on January 3 [7 favorites]
posted by bowbeacon at 7:04 AM on January 3 [7 favorites]
Hello from Amherst. I'd definitely call that a Cape Cod.
posted by jonathanhughes at 7:10 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]
posted by jonathanhughes at 7:10 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]
Response by poster: jonathanhughes. Hello from Bladdell
posted by Czjewel at 7:11 AM on January 3 [1 favorite]
posted by Czjewel at 7:11 AM on January 3 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: jonathanhughes, of course I meant Blasdell!
posted by Czjewel at 7:49 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
posted by Czjewel at 7:49 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
It sounds like what might be called a 'dormer bungalow' in the UK.
posted by misteraitch at 8:25 AM on January 3 [3 favorites]
posted by misteraitch at 8:25 AM on January 3 [3 favorites]
FWIW, in Canada, I would probably call that a post-war bungalow, even if it was built pre-war.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:47 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]
posted by jacquilynne at 8:47 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]
I owned one of these for awhile and we called it a bungalow.
posted by potrzebie at 10:07 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
posted by potrzebie at 10:07 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
Hello from Rhode Island, an hour's drive (or so) from Cape Cod, where my last house was a Cape, as were so many of my neighbors'.
That's a Cape.
posted by wenestvedt at 10:51 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
That's a Cape.
posted by wenestvedt at 10:51 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: wendstedt. Lovely state I attended many a jewelry trade show in Providence. Fab Italian eateries and pizza joints.
posted by Czjewel at 1:19 PM on January 3 [1 favorite]
posted by Czjewel at 1:19 PM on January 3 [1 favorite]
Where I come from that would be referred to as a PMQ - Private Married Quarters. Hundreds of them were built in each individual housing development in the 40's. Some of them were built on bases, which after the war became civilian neighbourhoods. Others were built on developer owned land to begin with.
Cape Cod may be specifically a USA term for that kind of a house.
posted by Jane the Brown at 1:23 PM on January 3 [3 favorites]
Cape Cod may be specifically a USA term for that kind of a house.
posted by Jane the Brown at 1:23 PM on January 3 [3 favorites]
You’ve already landed on it being a Cape Cod. Considering I’ve lived in 3 capes in my life, I was surprised that I only recently learned about half, three-quarter and full capes. Have seen them all my life but it only clicked after reading that it was a thing!
posted by nandaro at 1:58 PM on January 3 [2 favorites]
posted by nandaro at 1:58 PM on January 3 [2 favorites]
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It could be a bungalow.
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 6:37 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]