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the unique personality of your bungalow with our readers.
New jewel, old gem, simple cottage or refined estate --
we want them all! All we need from you is a clear photo
and a brief description of your home.
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Cascade,
Md., Phil and Faith Ulzheimer
We were looking for a retirement home smaller than the one I
designed more than 30 years ago. When I told our Realtor I was
an architect and wanted an older home, she said that she had
just the house for me, and that I should send her a check and
she would let me know when closing was scheduled. I asked her
to humor me and let us see it first. As soon as we saw the chestnut
ceilings in the living and dining room, the four stone fireplaces
and the never-painted wood trim and wainscoting, I gave her
a check. We have a lot of work to do on it but we still have
a few years. Oh yeah -- it's bigger than our current home.
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Eureka,
Calif., Raymond Smith
My
California bungalow in the Hendersen Center area has two bedrooms
and one bath in 1,450 square feet. I am only the second owner,
and a lot of the original design is intact despite a '60s
update that I am slowly renovating. I've been told that it
was built around 1925, but sat vacant for seven or eight years
before I bought it. The Eureka area offers a wide variety
of Victorian, Craftsman and other bungalow architecture, and
I'm glad to own this little piece of the town's past history.
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Athens,
Ga., Jim and Lane Norton
Our new home was finished in March 2003 on a lot adjoining the
Bloomfield Historic District. We kept the exterior conforming
to the area's bungalow styles, while inside we have all the
conveniences of a new home. Our interior woods are maple and
mahogany rather than the oak that was the traditional finish
in this area. Many refer to our new home as the "Hobbit
House" or the "Storybook Home." We love it.
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Chicago,
Ill., Anastasia and Frank Glapa
Our "jumbo" Chicago bungalow was built in 1924 for
$10,000 and we bought it for 20 times that in 1990. The leaking
tile roof was removed and a new 75-year concrete tile roof installed.
We started a trend -- six homes near us had their old roofs
replaced with new tile instead of cheaper asphalt. Our home
has beautiful crown moldings we are stripping, oak and maple
floors, and leaded-glass windows. The sun rises in the dining
room and sets in the solarium; we love our bungalow!
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Malvern,
Penn., Kurt and Isabel Leininger
After looking at about 30 houses in three days, we walked into
this one and immediately said, "This is the house we want."
It is from a Sears kit, built in the early 1920s and we love
it. The floors are gorgeous -- warm, golden maple with very
strong contrast from light to dark -- and it has a few built-ins
-- simple bookshelves in the living room and a corner cupboard
in the dining room. The kitchen was redone very poorly in the
mid-'80s, so we did it over last year with a maple floor, butcher-block
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Beach, Calif., Charles and Evelyn Plemons
Our Greene and Greene-inspired home, built in 1998, is a testament
to the Arts and Crafts philosophy of form following function.
Our architect, Bruce Fraser, developed a floor plan to suit
our lifestyle, then adapted it to a steep upsloping lot. Custom
features include Greene and Greene-style light fixtures and
doors, Honduran mahogany woodwork with finger joints and Bradbury
& Bradbury wallpapers. Our home is truly a dream come true
and we marvel every day at how lucky we are to live in it.
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East
Point, Ga., Randy Lauscher and John Carriere
This 1930 Craftsman bungalow is located in suburban Atlanta
on a corner lot in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. It has
unique front porch steps that we haven't seen duplicated anywhere.
It is one of just a few yellow brick homes built in this area;
Georgia red clay was a plentiful source for manufacturing
red brick, which was the norm for brick homes in the region
during that period.
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Deadwood,
S.D., Roger and Sharon Crago
We are the third owners of this very original 1908 bungalow.
It has a four-foot casket door, original light fixtures, hardwood
floors and stained-glass French doors. The woodwork has never
been redone, and the only change since 1941 is painting the
walls. It is on the National Historic Registry and is quite
a unique home.
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running low on great homes to feature in upcoming issues,
but we know they're there. Send your photos and descriptions
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and last name on each photo submitted.
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