How this house took over the US

Why is the Craftsman bungalow everywhere? It’s due to a socialist artist, an entrepreneurial furniture maker, and a real estate movement.
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To anyone who’s been a casual architecture fan (or spent time trawling Airbnb and Zillow), the “Craftsman bungalow” is a familiar term. Today, historic districts around the US celebrate the Craftsman’s beauty. But how did this style of house become so ubiquitous and so beloved?
The above video explores the history of the Craftsman bungalow, from the 1800s Arts & Crafts movement, to its popularization in America, to its commodification in the 1910s and 1920s.
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Janet Ore provides the humorous history of Seattle Bungalow entrepreneur Jud Yoho, who made Craftsman into a brand.
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[@Vox]

Thanks for watching! Those “Craftsman” magazines have a motto printed in the inside: “Als Ik Kan.” It’s Dutch and basically translates to “As Best I Can” - a good summation of the Arts & Crafts ethos of individual craftsmanship.

[@ralphvanhethul2994]

Huh, didn't even knew that as a Dutchie. Guess you learn something new everyday!

[@lama99654]

@@ralphvanhethul2994 bro if your Dutch how can you not read it

[@ralphvanhethul2994]

@@lama99654 I can read it! Just didn't knew that those magazines had that motto printed in the inside! :)

[@c.s.9719]

You mean Flemish. And the close up of the Craftsman magazine you use has Stickley's motto, taken from Geoffrey Chaucer: "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."

[@ThisHouse]

Great Video! We love architecture history!

[@CJusticeHappen21]

I grew up in a house like this. Half a life later and growing ever more distant, it is still the image that comes up when I think of the word "home."

[@anishavincent4963]

@yes your mom

[@char6081]

Lucky

[@nutterinherbutter5080]

@yes nice argument bait

[@GlennDavey]

We literally have "California bungalows" in older parts of Melbourne, Australia. It's so odd to suddenly feel like you stepped into a Hollywood movie walking past them with oak trees overhead. They're beautiful, but they stand out among the other houses built in that era. I guess the American trends found their way here too!

[@rickfeng4466]

Are you sure it’s not Texan bungalows? We have a joke that Australians are just British Texan~ :P

[@static-san]

Same in Sydney. Some older suburbs have them by the street.

[@sarahrichardson3692]

Omg I just posted this, I’m also from Melbourne! I used to live next to one!

[@holeyjackson223]

Ok that English Texans comment is insulting. Particularly for people from Melbourne…. We are not ok with guns, abortion is legal and we have wayyyy fewer evangelists

[@sarahrichardson3692]

@@rickfeng4466 Australia is absolutely nothing like Texas, Australia more closely resembles California

[@thedetail.]

In the UK we call this the Arts and Crafts movement which has heavy links to the french Art Nouveau period in the late 19th and early 20th century. It's interesting how pervasive and enduring this style is.

[@minnermin]

So does psychedelic art

[@acchaladka]

Yes he talks about this starting at 2:30. There's a great video on Morris' home now owned by English Heritage, by HENI Talks.

[@caitlintiulenev9156]

We call it that in the US as well

[@TenOrbital]

In Australia we call the house design ‘California bungalow’.

[@thedetail.]

@@acchaladka I live down the road from William Morris's former home.

[@rachelshoemaker3561]

Thank you! For fourteen years (researching catalog and kit homes) I have been trying to set people straight on this. Equating Craftsman to Sears as kit home etc. Even explaining the trademark purchase! I will answer with this video now. I am Oklahoma Houses By Mail that you reference. Not just authenticating all kit homes but researching their origins of the plans that were acquired by the companies that marketed bundled materials.

[@zzhoward]

Thanks for your efforts, Rachel! I had a look at your website and the houses in street view and it is fascinating stuff!

[@Textile_Courtesan]

You are an amazing researcher, @Rachel Shoemaker! Your efforts are truly valued. Thank you!

[@timnewman1172]

Thank you for posting! I own an early 1980's home that will lend itself well to many of the interior features common to a 1920's bungalow. I currently live in an 1914 foursquare that was unfortunately "remodeled", but my grandmother's home was a wonderful bungalow that had all those wonderful details!

[@timnewman1172]

It is a style that I wish were being built today... most bungalow floorplans could be easily adapted to today, and they are ideal for couples and single living!

[@rachelshoemaker3561]

@@Textile_Courtesan thank you!

[@benmcreynolds8581]

These are my favorite type of houses when done right. They just got a nice feel to them. I love the raw wood and stone approach and low spread out floor plan with covered porches 👍🏼

[@alimaatod]

As a non american i always wondered why america had houses like this

[@ZNotFound]

Now you know.

[@daneclark3161]

The "styles" change every 10 years or so. Now, they just build them big with little character.

[@peetz.]

My brother, we share the same ideas

[@AbsolutelyRedundant]

Same lol

[@walterbrunswick]

your avatar looks vaguely familiar, I seem to have remember seeing it before

[@averybuffington7274]

I have grown up my entire life in a sears bungalow kit house in Denver and it is the very definition of home to me. It's not as flashy as some of the homes of friends who have more bigger modern houses, but it means a lot to me. It has also been in my family for five generations including me.

[@lagritsalammas]

As an architecture history buff I had known about the Arts and Crafts movement as well as the Craftsman style in the US, but I had never thought nor made the connection of how the aesthetic of an anti-mass-production ideology started being mass produced regardless. Thank you so much for the good video, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

[@stev6963]

I love Vox so much. They make so many videos about things I didn’t think I would be interested in, but here I am.

[@ryerye9019]

Craftsman bungalows look so dark inside. It's almost the antithesis to modern design which emphasizes light and airiness. But designed in an era without air conditioning, they must have been extremely insulating. Reminds me of a cave. It looks like it just wants to sink into the ground.

[@marvindujardin463]

*Cozyness*

[@walterbrunswick]

@@marvindujardin463 creepy crawlers running around everywhere, building spiderwebs, and you can't even see them, so cozy

[@marvindujardin463]

@@walterbrunswick Clinical cleanliness devoit of all life in a cube so white you have to blink.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@walterbrunswick Those things are entirely up to how well you keep your home clean and while I've never lived in one because I'm not American, I don't see why Craftmans would be any harder to clean than more modern construction. The main factor here is how many nooks and crannies there are and how easy it is to reach every surface in the house and Craftsman bungalows are fairly open so it shouldn't be that hard to clean them.

[@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118]

​@@cstuartdc I love the way old buildings look, I even love that dark and cosy interior style. I live in a maisonnette built in 1921 (not as old as a lot of other buildings in my area). It's got a lot of character. It also has a lot of down sides. Wooden underfloors, single glazing, single brick walls, almost no insulation, cold and damp, trouble with leaks, it costs a fortune to heat it up in the winter (I've taken measures so I don't actually spend a fortune to live here in the winter but it's a bit like camping). When I started living here in 2009 there were mice. We got rid of them, they returned in 2013, we got rid of them, they returned a week ago. I've had 5 wasp nests in the roof. Every time I had them exterminated and the holes plugged they got in via a different entry point the next year. I'm not allowed to use the fire places. The housing company does not allow me to install double glazing or to change anything about the insulation. I love this place but I have to move. I will be sad when I do. I'll just have to remind myself of the wet feet I had when there was a leak in my bedroom, that time I got stung by a wasp that had gotten into bed with me, that time my laminate floor was ruined because of leaks, the many times I've repainted and insulated my walls, and that time when there was a mouse in my in-progress shawl. I was sitting on the couch and my knitting was on the salon table, I hear a gnawing noise coming from my shawl and I pick it up and notice there's a small warm ball of mouse in my knitting. I had to undo half of my progress to fix the hole it made. I had an old boiler until 2018. The windows don't open properly depending on temperature and the humidity. Oh the humidity. I love this place but the fact that I'm not allowed to improve it means I have to move.

I live in a "Mexican Bungalow" (I'm from there). The roof is made of wood covered with tiles, the walls are mostly granulated cement and the front wall is Adobe brick. It reminds me a lot of the word "Home".

[@jti107]

it’s really cool to visit a bungalow in Pasadena. It’s a completely different feel,lots of wood, natural light and a feeling of coziness. kinda hard to explain but it’s almost like the house had some soul to it, like it was built with attention to detail not a mass market house

[@TheTrainmobile]

There's an entire historic district in my city that is pretty much all craftsmen bungalows built between the 1920's and 1950's. Pretty neat to learn that this is why most of them were built.

[@karenryder6317]

Many people thing the definition of "Bungalow" means single story, but these homes were often 1.5 or 2 stories.

[@vickiamundsen2933]

these bungalows are a perfect design for keeping cool in hot weather - lots of air flow, windows shaded by porches, and no blasting hot second story bedrooms. Love!

[@charlessirridge9817]

In Chicago we have our own signature style of bungalow. There are about 80,000 of them in the "bungalow belt" that hugs the periphery of the city and extends into the inner ring streetcar suburbs.

[@charlessirridge9817]

@tjuyftutjyfudt yes! We have quite a few Milwaukee-style bungalows in Chicago as well.

[@petitthom2886]

As a non-american, the first time I remember seeing this kind of house was in Malcolm in the Middle lol

[@rachel_sj]

I think the Malcom in the Middle house had a Craftsman base but there was a lot of 1960s and 1970s home designs elements (cabinets, wallpaper, etc) that are much more prominent in the show. I think it’s because the family was a lot more working class and didn’t have the time or money to change up their home like they wanted (like most other families in the US) so they probably just left their house in around the same condition as they bought it.

[@JustJulyo]

As an LA native I would love to live in a house in general

[@amandataub842]

My home is a Craftsman kit home that was originally built in 1917. It was brought to my central Washington town by the railroad. The original owner was a miner. It has seen a few additions over the years - a pantry with a back entrance and a second floor added. I love my Craftsman home. There are a few others in my neighborhood built before and after my home.

[@angelahall4402]

I live in southern Indiana and we have cities all over with these homes. I was born and raised in Torrance Calif. I noticed these house's out there, specifically around the coastal neighborhoods.

[@perezmyeye6743]

Is nice houses

[@jareknowak8712]

I always liked the looks of this type of homes, knowing them only from older American movies. Good vibes.

[@echnaton123]

William Morris is also known to have denied the toxic effects of his arsenic wallpaper designs he sold mostly in the UK, so people died slowly in their colourfull victorian homes by arsenic gas caused by damb walls.

[@angelofdeath275]

jfc I'm gonna guess someone knew way back as well, just like lead paint

[@the.magic.catbus9459]

Hahaha! I was just thinking about how his green floral designs probably were poisoning people.

[@aanand8488]

So a socialist slowly killing off the rich 😉?

[@ameliatahnia]

This is what I imagined all American houses looked like

[@JoshCalero]

Cant forget about plantation homes

[@AbsolutelyRedundant]

Same lol, they always looked so unstable. As though they could tip over any second...

[@elyenidacevedo1995]

@@JoshCalero I don't think people live in them anymore..

[@dewin0936]

@@JoshCalero😭😭

[@devconnell]

LOVE the architecture-focused content as of late. Keep it coming!

[@skeletopedia3122]

Can you elaborate more on origin of "Bungalow." According to dictionary, it says it originated from Hindi 'bangla' (beloning to Bengal) from a type of cottage built for early European settlers in Bengal. Interesting.

[@direwood]

As a native Bengali speaker we use the word "Bungalow" to describe houses made in British colonial era for vacation home of sort.

[@moonlighmax]

You can find these types of homes on the sides of Hooghly river (Ganges) in Bengal. It was used to be built on wooden pillar as ground floor basement. So that even high tide or flood they don't have move somewhere else.

[@angelamonk716]

Everything originated from Hindu... then the Europeans highjacked it all.

[@zeegani]

I'm indian.. we normally would call a nice fancy house a Bangla. I used to think we got it from the English... lol I had no idea it was the other way round !

[@PaulfromChicago]

Basically, the Europeans attempted to adopt a Hindu form of architecture. They liked the wide porch/single story houses in India and brought the porch back to Europe/ US. As the style spread around the United States (I can't speak for the UK), it simply came to mean a low house with a porch in front. But in the upper Midwest, the front porch became enclosed, due to weather conditions. As American expectations for houses / living space grew, a bungalow could have two stories, but the second was still commonly low set. In the Midwest, it is common to see older bungalows with pop-tops, where the house was extended upward to accommodate a larger living space.

[@shannonhannaway7292]

Janet Ore was one of my professors, for anyone interested in history especially American Architecture DEFINITELY check out her work!!! She's amazing in every way

[@BrunoThePup93]

Fun fact: William Morris owned and operated one of the largest arsenic mines and used it often in his wallpaper. When people were finding arsenic wallpaper was killing people and writing him to stop using it, he said that arsenic wallpaper was safe and the negative press was “witch fever”.

[@Blakey9537]

bit of an urban myth that I'm afraid

[@danielebrparish4271]

Wilhelm Scheele invented the first arsenic green pigment in 1775. It was commonly used in wallpaper until the 1890's. Most countries banned its use by then.

[@collin4194]

It would be great if you created a mini series out of this! Great intro into the topic but I feel like there is so much more to the story!

[@pharrellcarrigan6764]

I would love to live in a house like that

[@arrsea7947]

Laughs in extreme poverty

[@QuarioQuario54321]

This is inefficient. I would find a bunch of abandoned ones and replace them with skyscrapers with 1000+ condos.

[@walterbrunswick]

@@QuarioQuario54321 I would demolish the old rotten abandoned oversized mansions, and build a row of properly-sized affordable maintainable townhouses

[@cdemr]

@@QuarioQuario54321 They're a nightmare to live in, humans have not evolved to live in such places. The ideal is probably something like European middle-housing

[@QuarioQuario54321]

@@cdemr look at China then, extreme packing people and maximum density.

[@tejasn3835]

shout out to the excellent audio work, immensely improved the joy of watching the video

[@colechapman6976]

Love bungalows! They are architecturally unique and created with lots of quality and attention to detail without being so enormous like a Second Empire or Queen Anne house. It means you can have wonderfully crafted details in a relatively cheap fashion which means it's cheaper to build and maintain

[@johndoe6773]

I always loved how these looked. I dreamed of buying one when I was a kid but now in early 30s, they are the ones going for millions of dollars in every city in the US.

[@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407]

Not been to the USA. But I know this type of house from playing The Sims 2! It's one of the premade residential lots.

[@chap8938]

There's quite a few 'Californian Bungalows' in Australia, though the don't have the focus on stone and natural materials like these craftsman bungalows. They were generally built from brick or weatherboards, had either tin or terracotta tiled roofs though some did have timber paneling inside. Many are still around and some of them are absolutely gorgeous homes that have beautiful details and roof lines and look amazing when they've been maintained and renovated.

[@GlennDavey]

Red Dead Redemption 2 epilogue (spoilers) John Marston buys one of these kit homes out of a catalogue in 1907, and then visits a Dutch tool-maker to buy the tools for constructing it. The resulting home that he builds with Charles and Uncle is in wooden Craftsman bungalow style, veranda on two sides, all rooms coming off a central open plan, with stone chimneys, and attention to every detail. "Simple but well-appointed." Historical!

[@cindybogart6062]

I love these craftsman Bungalows. They are always adorable, roomy & wide & made very well! New houses have no attention to detail & are flimsy.

[@realTLC]

I love these wonderful videos. Keep them up! So informative yet entertaining!!

[@jensenzen]

Man, how I love these great vid essays. Well done as always

[@cestvraicommeceuxdit]

i loved the video, especially the soundtrack. And thanks for listing the songs you used, I just added a couple on my spotify playlist

[@MaisyDaisy333]

What an informative video! Thank you for sharing this info with us! 💗 History feels so much closer when I see stories like this. Really nicely done!

[@gabrieltolliver]

Great, informative piece. Thanks for making.

[@RoboticDragon]

You always come up with some fun ideas for your videos, love them.

[@zacharytaylor2983]

There’s a fascinating coda to this story, which is that “Craftsman” or “Bungalow” style has made a massive resurgence in new residential construction on the West Coast since 2000. Would love to see a follow-up video on that! I think the origins of the trend can be traced to the iconic Gamble House (also in Pasadena, CA) being featured as Doc Brown’s house in “Back to the Future” in 1985. I think that this helped bring Craftsman style back into the popular imagination

[@isabellaatkinson4329]

This can be traced to the time surrounding economic recession and comes in line with the popularity of styles like "normcore." Less economic prosperity led to distaste of the bling and ornament that characterized styles across disciplines around the turn of the century, and people craved things that "looked" well made and simpler. Developers again capitalized on the association that much of the American public had with older "craftsman" homes and started to bring that style back to suburbia.

[@buwhy9898]

I hope vox keep making vids about architecture, I really love it

[@DementedDistraction]

I personally love Queen Anne Victorians and Tudor Revival, but Craftsman houses have a certain aura about them that appeals to me, despite their lack of the cosmetic flourishes that define the former two styles.

[@JGSMusic]

This video was so relaxing to watch.. I especially love the music in the background

[@stevenikitas8170]

I have passed by a craftsman house in my town many times and enjoyed its lines. Thanks for the video.

[@jeffunruh]

Great video, thanks for posting. I enjoy driving through Bungalow Heaven every time I travel to Pasadena on business just to look at the elegant low-pitched roofs, tapered columns, deep covered porches, etc. In another life I would live in one of those houses. Would love to see videos on other California suburban architecture styles like the Spanish Colonial Revival in LA and Santa Barbara, mid-century Atomic Ranch and Eichler homes, and good old post-war ranch houses in the East Bay.

[@NotaUser1234]

In our neighborhood, one can easily guess the date of the house based on it's style. If it is Victorian or queen-anne, it was built between 1880-1900. If it is 4-square, it is 1895-1910. Craftsman is 1905-1920. Tutor is 1920-1930. Not many houses were built in my area in the 1930s. 1940's were cottage style. 1950-1970s ranch. Houses built after 1980 kinda all look the same (contemporary?). Many american bungalows do have a 2nd story, but the 2nd floor is much smaller than the first. They are stylistically "hidden" with dormers than "pop-out" of the roof.

[@kathrynryches6660]

I spent many years in an area wth many Craftsman style homes in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I love them!

[@lorenzsanjuan]

Old villages here in the Philippines are filled with bungalow houses which is not ideal as the country is always hit by floods and typhoons. Maybe an American influence.

[@monet6104]

Love the video and thank you for the resources, they will come handy in my final paper on the Craftman Bungalow

[@SunnyBear]

I love videos like these on cityscape and architecture, I always learn something interesting. Thanks!!

[@perezmyeye6743]

Sure

[@formatpurpose4231]

More architecture videos please! Love!

[@patrick.2863]

Just watching explained. Always a treat for a new video

[@cokesquirrel]

These craftsman bungalows would be a dream home for me. I can't imagine anything that would suit me better🐶

[@story3877]

Looks like home to me. We live in a craftsman 4 square and adore it. She'll be 100 this year. Happy birthday, house!

[@ThisHouse]

Great Video! We love architecture history!

[@DenisHeraud]

Love your videos! Keep them coming!

[@lorimcquinn3966]

A couple comments; at 4:09, you mentioned a article although missed the author. This author, "Harvey Ellis" is a well know figure in the Craftsman movement. His furniture designs were and still are considered the height of design in the Craftsman/Arts and Crafts movement. His designs are still utilized in modern Stickley furniture, 100 years after the fact. Something which also should be added were the Aladdin, Lewis and Liberty Kit home manufactures of Bay City, Michigan. They not only created a number of creative Bungalow designs for years, they actually offered the houses in kit form in large numbers.

[@D_isco_D_ancer]

I'm so thrilled to see this video. It makes me so happy that we after the digital revolution are making our way back to the basic principles of design and craft.

[@UKLeonie]

Bungalows are my favourite, mainly as they are usually one level. But the craftmans bungalow is something different, happy for this episode. Crystal Palace exhibition has alllllllllll types of historic disasters attached.

[@perezmyeye6743]

Sure

[@ian-wilson]

I’ve always loved bungalow house, now I know how to be more picky about which one I want someday! Haha Thanks for this video!

[@skimmylk]

i live in one of those seattle craftsman’s bungalows! our house was built in 1912 and all of the houses in the neighborhood are the same way! i love it

[@Xhin229]

The type of house design you would see on a ready-to-build plans book available on surplus bookstore for less than a dollar (outside america). I bought one before just to see the craftsmanship and building methods used. (Edit: commented this midway watching)

[@immeremma]

Nice to see Phil back on this channel!

[@kommanderpie9152]

I remember making this in drafting class, it was my house design I picked as a project

[@dylandonaghue6750]

We have many pockets here in Canada that feature Craftsman bungalows in the historic sections of some of our towns and cities, all built around the 1920s. I just bought one. I've always admired the style, without knowing what it was called, until I started researching it. Thanks for the very informative video!

[@brucef310]

I got so excited watching this because I own a home that's two blocks away from here. That's 7-Eleven and that Domino's are on the corner of lake avenue and Orange Grove boulevard. I currently live in Bangkok Thailand but I love the reference here because it brought me back home for a minute.

[@MomCat6000]

thank you for mentioning those street names! I'm going to "google drive" through that neighborhood to lovingly gaze at Bungalow Heaven!

[@brucef310]

@@MomCat6000 Tell me what you think after you're done with Google maps.

[@MomCat6000]

@@brucef310 very satisfying - got to look at the houses up close through the zoom feature - so many beautiful homes that have retained their Arts & Crafts design elements - some homeowners have accentuated the Craftsman lines through their choices of paint and landscaping. Some homes are outstandingly gorgeous!!!

[@nikkitronic80]

Theses homes are all over my hometown of Tacoma Washington. The home I live in now is a kit home built in 1909 but I don't think it's quite the craftsman bungalow style. It's kind funny to think how the Sears catalog was the Amazon of it's day.

[@jthummell]

Can't talk about Stickley without Syracuse, NY. We still have many of those beautiful Bungalows and furniture/built-ins that go along with it.

[@mc88dx]

I appreciate the craftsmanship of these historical investigations.

[@honeysucklecat]

I’ve been in a lot of Seattle Craftsman homes and they are gorgeous

[@michaelpark5439]

More architecture pieces like this please!!

[@brent1041]

I just had a new house built from my own custom plan. It definitely fits the craftsman bungalow model.

[@jimwatchyyc]

Vancouver, B.C. has lots of These style homes. I love them.

[@writereducator]

Lived in Bungalow Heaven for two years. I'd go back in an instant. Beautiful, modest homes and heavenly climate.

[@mictianabsterges1313]

This was Fascinating, Thank You!!!

[@georgeleddy483]

Best thing I have seen all day. I used to live in Monrovia (east of Pasadena) that has incredibly beautiful Craftsman houses, many bigger then the modest bungalow. And then there's Greene and Greene, who designed the most amazingly perfect but big Craftsman houses from Pasadena to Berkeley.

[@georgeleddy483]

@Zaydan Naufal that too. Monroe was the prez who sent enslaved Africans back to the continent where they founded Liberia and named the capital Monrovia. The California suburb of LA came much later. Same Monroe.

[@perezmyeye6743]

👍🏼

[@shelbuchler]

I'm quite familiar with one of the Sears kit houses, I lived in a Sears Rodessa house in Michigan from 1925. It was a cozy 615 sq foot home with a full basement and an original shed/garage of sorts. If you search for it, you can find floor plans and advertisements for the house. It was sold as a kit like a piece of Ikea furniture, they would send you the parts and you would put it together. Unfortunately ours didn't have its original kitchen, but it did have all original wooden windows, floors, doors, and door knobs. When doing maintenance, I noticed that each piece of wood had a label on the back stating where and how it was to be installed and the date it was delivered. It was a cool house but it needed too much work. There are quite a few Sears kit homes in the AnnArbor and Ypsilanti area. Maybe you'll see my old house on street view.

[@TwistedCyclonix]

As an architecture lover I loved this video

[@visune4306]

As an non architecture lover I did not love this video

[@DrRiq]

As a lover I architected this video

[@wchristian2000]

As a video I architected this love

[@samrichardson8067]

Im from Australia and live in what we call a Californian Bungalow, very popular from 1910 - 1925. I bought a car of a lady who was originally from California and when speaking to her about my home she said "Oh I know there called Californian Bungalows, but I never saw no house looking like that in California." This video now has me curios of the evolution of Californian Bungalows in Australia. Great video by the way.

[@TheAlbinoskunk]

And now LA has a housing crisis because upper middle class people bought houses like these all over the city in the 80s and oppose any attempt at densification. They want to preserve a small-town lifestyle of low-density, lush, socially homogenous neighbourhoods whilst living in the inner suburbs of a major world city. It's not just Los Angeles, this is happening in every major city in the world but LA has to be one of the most extreme examples of this

[@BTrain-is8ch]

You've got a country full of people desperately attached to the idea that real estate is a key tool for building wealth even though most real wealthy people didn't get there that way. Why wouldn't that be the outcome? Of course people are going to vote to protect the value of their most valuable asset. The complaints about home owners ignore the fact that many/most of the complainers want the exact same thing for themselves...

[@toerklintv4185]

'Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion' by Johnny Harris is highly recommendable in this regard. He goes a little more into detail about this. Noted: this is not just an issue with liberals and perhaps even more so with conservatives/right-wingers but it highlights how there seems to be a general consensus upon upper middle class people when it comes to their own backyards and potential "threats" to the value of their property.

[@joshr24]

You're mad at people for wanting to keep old American heritage alive?

[@walterbrunswick]

@@joshr24 yes any more questions?

[@reckonerwheel5336]

@@joshr24 Keeping this old American heritage alive is a factor that makes social mobility increasingly difficult and at its worst, contributes to homelessness, so yeah, some of us are mad lol.

[@allisondoak9425]

Watching this in a classic craftsman bungalow in New Zealand

[@blackmoj]

Very common in New Zealand suburbs (particularly Auckland) where it's known as a Californian bungalow.

[@SaltySparrow]

They're legitimately cool though.

[@pankajkhushalani]

The way you say bungalow gives me the feeling of an itch that I can't scratch

[@PHlophe]

its an indian word so you go itchy. scratch scratch , Gori love.

[@pankajkhushalani]

@@PHlophe Yes it is originated from the Hindi word 'bangla' The empahsis on 'unga' is weird to me

[@hexmanrifu]

It's interesting how the architecture of Bengal houses made its way to the West!!

[@histershellac2842]

the large soffits also help increase the lifespan of the home by diverting storm water and also aiding with passive ventilation ( if the house is fortunate to be properly oriented on it's plat )

[@TypicalAlec]

British people seeing a second floor on a bungalow and losing their mind

[@PHlophe]

it looks hellacious frankly ! You wouldn't want any of those.

[@nikkytran]

I live in this neighborhood in Pasadena! I didn’t know that it had any significance, really cool video!

[@perezmyeye6743]

The structure is nice

[@dstblj5222]

interestingly the craftsman trademark is now owned by stanley black and decker which is a huge tool and industrial supply conglomerate

[@haswanthnunna3284]

Sad to see that Singapore doesnt have so many bungalows, but this gave me an Insider Preview.

[@catsupchutney]

I love that design. I lived in apartment in one on Corvallis Oregon.

[@antontrotoush]

That was so well made!

[@Jeremy_Meeks]

Chicago has to be the bungalow capital. Tons of these throughout city/suburbs and the brick layout is so good too. I think Chicago has the best looking bungalows

[@michelemaliano7860]

I love these homes and have a recently printed (2000) Aladdin home catalog.

[@perezmyeye6743]

I love them too

[@iansimmons3470]

Bungalow houses are all throughout here in Chicago. In particular, Chatham/ West Chatham neighborhoods are considered historical for their bungalow houses.

[@asdfdsaiskewl]

Yes! I grew up in the bungalow belt-and our bungalows are pretty different than the craftsman style imo. What’s interesting though is I don’t think I’ve ever seen a proper craftsman style house in Chicago…they’re definitely in other IL cities, like Peoria and Champaign/Urbana.

[@iansimmons3470]

@@asdfdsaiskewl I totally agree! There are a few bungalows that resembles the Craftsman style houses here. Not as many as there used to be that's for sure.

[@karld001]

There were a lot of the Sears kit homes in Downers Grove Illinois, because the train ran through and it was easy to get them delivered and Chicago residents would have built for a weekend home.

[@lukerand]

Great video! You should do Mid-Century Modern next

[@lukerand]

Mid 20th century, so the 1950s. I find those style of houses so interesting and unique. The furniture of the time is also incredibly iconic.