Bungalow

The bungalow is derived from small houses in India stemming from “Bengali house”. In fact, since the cottage style
house with thick walls didn’t work in India, the bungalow was developed.
A bungalow is a small, square, single-story home with front porch. The single floor is raised up with front steps leading
up to the porch. Often there’s a single dormer window built into a pitched roof in the attic. These types of homes
started being built in the USA in the early 1900’s. They’re found all over the country now. These days, bungalows aren’t
too common given the penchant for much larger homes. Moreover, with computer-aided design, simple designs are no
longer necessary to keep costs lower.

Duplex
An over-and-under two story apartment duplex in Southeastern Pennsylvania
A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other via townhouses or above each
other like apartments[1] By contrast, a building comprising two attached units on two distinct properties is typically
considered semi-detached or twin homes but is also called a duplex in parts of the Northeastern United States.
The term "duplex" is not extended to three-unit and four-unit buildings, as they would be referred to with specific terms
such as triplex[2] and fourplex or quadplex/quadruplex.[3] Because of the flexibility of the term, the line between an
apartment building and a duplex is somewhat blurred, with apartment buildings tending to be bigger, while duplexes are
usually the size of a normal house.

Split-type
A split-level home (also called a tri-level home) is a style of house in which the floor levels are staggered. There are
typically two short sets of stairs, one running upward to a bedroom level, and one going downward toward a basement
area. The basement level is usually finished, and often contains additional living areas (most often, a family room, an
office and/or a hobby or playroom), as well as frequently laundry facilities and other utilities. The basement level often
also features a garage, and is usually level with the driveway. Beneath the main level (downward from the basement
level) is usually crawl space, or sometimes additional basement space, which is frequently unfinished.

Maisonette
A maisonette is a two-storey flat, where your front door is your own. This means that you can exit your home directly to
the outside, as opposed to a regular flat where you have a shared corridor.
No private entrance, means no claim to the name - often you may hear them being referred to as a ‘duplex’, their
american title. A great way to think of maisonettes is simply a ‘house on stilts’, as they are often located over shops,
garages, or other maisonettes.

Garalow/Garlow
High rents and the high cost of building have brought forward a new type of building—the “garlow”—which has solved
the housing problem for large numbers of families. The name “garlow” is made by combining bungalow and garage, and
the structure is all that its name implies.
Designed as a two-car garage, so far as the main structure is concerned, its ingenious use of partitions, which may be
made of plaster board, turns the garlow into a three- or four-room house with all modern conveniences. It will serve as a
comfortable dwelling until the owner is ready to build his house, and after the completion of the main residence may be
turned into a garage by removing the partition and a portion of the outside wall on one side, which has been so
designed as to be removable without injuring the building.

Saltbox
It is a Colonial style of architecture which originated in New England. Saltboxes are frame houses with two stories in
front and one in back, having a pitched roof with unequal sides, being short and high in front and long and low in back.
The front of the house is flat and the rear roof line is steeply sloped. The sturdy central chimney is a simple but effective
focal point. The simplicity and strength of this design, first seen around 1650, continues to make saltbox houses popular
today.

Dogtrot
One of the more ingenious methods of cooling in the days before air conditioning, the Dogtrot house originated in the
southern Appalachian Mountain region. It is distinguished by an open breezeway that extends through the center of the
house, off of which open the rooms. With this design, cooling breezes flow through the open core and into the rooms
where windows on the exterior walls create cross-ventilation.

Multi-storey
A multi-story building is a building that supports two or more floors above ground. There is no formal restriction on the
height of such a building or the number of floors a multi-story building may contain, though taller buildings do face more
practical difficulties.

Flat
An apartment is what the Americans call a flat. Essentially, flats or apartments are residential units in a high-rise block. In
UK, they ar called flats and in US, they are called apartments. A house is a landed property. It can be single-storey,
double-storey or even three-storey.

Quadruplex
A 4-plex is a small residential building with 4 apartments; the word is like "duplex" meaning two units. Also known as
multi-family homes.
The buildings usually look more like a large house than an apartment building.
Sometimes a 4-plex looks like this side-by-side duplex; but each side is split again into two units, one upstairs and one
downstairs, making four separate living areas altogether. There may be a common laundry room, but other than that
each unit is completely self-contained, with it's own kitchen and bathroom facilities.

Row House
one of a series of houses connected by common sidewalls and forming a continuous group

Queenslander
Queenslanders are typical houses to the state of Queensland that were built at the end of the 19th/beginning of the
20th century with the materials that were available locally, namely timber.The primary reason for their development
was the climate and the long summer months. The areas such as the shaded verandahaccessed via French doors are
semisemi-outdoor and suit the climate. The roof is iron and the pitch is steep.

Chateau
A château (plural châteaux; French pronunciation: [ʃɑto] in both cases) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the
manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in
French-speaking regions.[1]

Chatel

Chattel house is a Barbadian word for a small moveable wooden house that working class people would occupy. The
term goes back to the plantation days when the home owners would buy houses designed to move from one property
to another. The word "chattel" means movable property so the name was appropriate.