Matching Your Taste To Available House Styles

You have finally decided that improving your current home is the best alternative you have to living in a dream home. So you want to improve it or even build it anew to correspond to both your needs and your tastes. However, you do not know whether your tastes and needs will be met by a bungalow, ranch, Victorian, Georgian or cottage house styles.

Let us try to exemplify how you go about matching your tastes and needs to the available house styles in America today. Maybe you would prefer a house whose wood beams are proudly displayed to give a plain looking non-ornamental style. You do not score for fussy trims. Actually, the house interior should be wide open and covered by high ceilings. If that is you, then you are into the contemporary house styles.

Maybe you would like a newer style that has the house attached to the garage. You want big windows in a single story house. For you, the ranch house will do fine. Maybe you would like something with a European accent but not a cottage. Such a style can be captured with a plastered exterior and exposed half timbers, a steeply gabled roof and a large fireplace. For that, you will do well with the Tudor house style.

Alternatively, you might wish for a funky style with a flat roof and vertical lines on the sides. The kind of style loved by 1920’s Americans especially New Yorkers. A good example being the Radio City Music Hall design. Without a question, yours is the art deco. You might wish for the 19th Century traditional house styles but incorporating most features of modern home designs such as porches, curved towers for the second floor etc. yours must be the Victorian taste.

However, the fussy Victorian might not work for you either. Your style is more into Georgian, Dutch, federal or neo-modern variety. Simple lines and a few dormers for the second floor will do. That taste matches the colonial house styles.

That is the way to match your tastes to the available house styles to ensure that you live in a house you love and enjoy being in. Consider other house styles and their specific features such as the French provincial style, the cape cod style, the Italianate style and bungalow style.