Origin: United States, early 20th century, tied to the Arts and Crafts movement.
The Craftsman bungalow is a compact one to one-and-a-half storey home that rose in the United States in the early 20th century in the Arts and Crafts spirit. It has a low pitched roof with wide eaves, exposed rafter tails, and tapered porch columns on stone or brick bases. Materials are shown honestly: timber, stone, brick and tile, with fine joinery around doors and frames.
In Vietnam it suits small villas, garden houses and corner plots that need a breezy porch. humid coastal regions is damp and gets harsh western sun, so the eaves must be deep enough to shade the windows, timber must be treated against moisture and mould or replaced with outdoor engineered wood, and column bases should be stone or brick to stop rising damp. Tiled roofs need firm fixing against coastal storms, with generous gutters for heavy rain.
