new name for bungalow?

roses they could be called "lowrise" as opposed to "highrise"

I get very annoyed when authorities class my home as a Bungalow. It is obviously a single-storey Cottage.

Excellent glamma!

I think in America it is a Ranch,how does that grab you!

I have several online friends in the USA and they would always talk about their Ranch house, I was under the mistaken illusion they all lived on Ranches until one of them enlightened to the fact they call a 'Bungalow' a Ranch house.. I truly thought they were all cowgirls and boys.

Y es, it conjures up Stetsons and corrals, I quite like it though.

I agree, Grannyeggs. Ours is a cottage without an upstairs.
Whitewashed, roses round the door, cottage garden and Eau de Nil paintwork on the window frames.

I loved it when we were on holiday in the US and we met with friends of friends who took us to their "shotgun house" (so they said) - we were intrigued until we realised it's a long thin house, bit like a railway carriage with rooms running from front to back.

I've said before I can't stand it that somehow a 'bungalow' is not a good thing. It is MUCH better not having to cart everything up- or downstairs all the time. I will never get used to it - I'm always upstairs and needing something downstairs, and vice versa.

And the "bungalow" houses in all Southern hemisphere countries are fabulous sprawling dwellings. In South Africa they often have "wrap around" verandahs - wide verandahs on three sides of the house. Fabulous. I think it was Bishop Colenso in his book "Ten Weeks in Natal" who said: "The people of Natal love their verandahs. They sit on them by day, and they sleep on them by night". Give me a bungalow any day, call it what you will!

merlotgran that sounds lovely.

You see? I agree merlot that sounds so appealing.

I was showing off about the Eau de Nil paintwork as a nod to another thread.

I got all excited when I was told the bungalow had a a verandah but it turned out to be a fenland 'verandah' which is a lean to shack used as a porch

I had designs on a real on as a retirement project. Still trying to convince DH!!

I think it sounds like a "must have" to me Merlot it's beginning to sound more and more like a ranch to me .

We were in Aberdeen for just a year and lived in a bungalow with two upstairs rooms.....we thought this odd, so called it a bungaloid......

AlieOxon that sounds like a disease I don't want to have!

Aren't they called 'chalet bungalows'?

I've always thought chalet bungalows to be an excellent design for retired folk. You live downstairs with all the advantages of being on the ground floor. The two guest bedrooms are upstairs so when your DCs arrive with their little darlings you can point them to the stairs, handing them the hoover on the way up.

I thought they were called bungalows because the builders ran out of bricks and had to just bung-a-low roof on the ground floor.

Bungalow is an Indian word isn't it?

kitty

Get a load of the modern Indian bungalow on the RH side of this page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungalow

I wouldn't mind one like that, but all the ones I see are poky little cramped affairs

No, lots of ideas but not any that I like yet! Ranch?..... nope, Lowrise?....nope
single storey cottage?......nope.It needs to be something nicer , along the lines of 'villa'.But maybe an Indian word or something a bit exotic [I like exotic!]

'Single storey dwelling' is quite common in estate-agentspeak.

estate agent speak is cobblers!I mean ALL of it .Single storey dwelling sounds like a cave. So far nothing better than either bungalow or villa[sighs, and gives up hope.]