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Page 9 <br />Porch (Front/back or wrap around) with wood columns, floors and ceiling: During the <br />warm season, the outside and inside meet on the porch. Horizontal or board and batten <br />painted wood siding are common to this style. <br /> <br />Windows tend to be smaller with true divided mullion grid patterns and are often <br />grouped together to create larger openings. White or pale neutral colors, again, <br />utilitarian, are the traditional and contemporary colors typically used with windows <br />frames and doors often accented in a contrasting or black color. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Craftsman / California Bungalow: It emphasizes horizontal lines, with low-pitched <br />gable roofs that extend far out past the home’s exterior walls, often with exposed beams <br />or rafters. <br /> <br />Craftsman homes “showcase hand-worked local materials with decorative elements <br />such as brackets, lintels, and rafters and display an artisanal approach to surface <br />decoration. The over-extended eaves of Craftsman roofs lend themselves to having <br />spacious porches on the front of houses, which featured thick, tapered columns along <br />the perimeter. Typically, the exterior of these homes had painted wood siding, but <br />accents of stucco or stone can be as well—the common theme being an emphasis on <br />earthy tones. <br /> <br />A bungalow refers to a simple, small typically only one or one-and-a-half stories house <br />with a sloping roof and wide porch along the front framed with unenclosed rafters, and <br />typically feature a dormer window or an attic vent designed to look like one over the <br />main portion of the house. Ideally, bungalows are horizontal in massing, and are <br />integrated with the earth by use of local materials and transitional plantings. Bungalows <br />commonly have wood shingle, horizontal siding or stucco exteriors, as well as brick or <br />stone exterior chimneys and a partial-width front porch. Larger bungalows might have