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Craftsman Bungalow

AIRPLANE BUNGALOW

If you add a sleeping porch to the top of a bungalow, you get a form of house which was described as Airplane Bungalow in the 1910s and 1920s. The sleeping porch was a room with as many windows as possible on all four walls. It served as a well-ventilated bedroom for the whole family on sweltering summer nights.

Here's a 1924 promotional brochure for an airplane bungalow.

AN AEROPLANE BUNGALOW

Illustrations and text from Woman's Weekly Magazine, Supplement of 1924.

"A Design of Extreme Novelty but Great Attraction"

An innovation in house designing that has many attractive points is shown here. Owing to the widespreading roofs both of the main part of the house and the sleeping porch cupola above, it has been dubbed the aeroplane design.

A porch extends around two sides of the house. It is covered in front with a projecting roof. The side porch is covered by the projecting roof rafters, giving a pergola effect. Numerous white square columns grouped as porch supports give a distinctive touch to the exterior.

There is a large living room 18 feet by 15 feet, with an open fireplace, and a wide entrance with decorative pillars leading to the dining room. Back of the dining room is a breakfast porch which has a direct entrance to the kitchen. At the side of the living room is a hall connecting with the bathroom and the two bedrooms. The stairway leading to the second floor sleeping porch opens from this hall.

The upstairs room is a porch glassed in on three sides. It measures 20 feet long by 12 feet 6 inches wide. It has two enclosed closets, making it easily convertible into two bedrooms. A flowerbox under two of the windows of the cupola adds a decorative touch. Although the house appears large, its dimensions are only 30 feet 6 inches by 42 feet.