Kitchen Design #1

I decided to use the G-Shaped kitchen as read about in the article. It's separated from the rest of the house while still being open to it with the island.

Housing Styles

Tudor:
This style was extremely popular from 1920-1940, especially in upscale suburbs. The roofs are steeply pitched. Sharp gables (sometimes with a chimney) dominate the front. Half timbering is visible on outer walls. A mixture of materials is used including brick, wood half timbers, stucco, and patterned stone.




Neo-Classical (Greek Revival):
Classical ideas took hold from 1895-1920 and remain strong today. The insperation for these homes come from Rome and Greece. A key concept in Classical design is symmetry; formal balance so that one side of a facade perfectly mirrors the other.






Queen Anne:
The Queen Anne house is one of a number of popular styles during the Victorian era. It is a romantic style often with towers and turrets reminiscent of the Middle Ages. Porches, balconies, and bay windows were used to add variety and "bring the outside in." Queen Anne style homes are distingushed by long sweeping porches. Many are painted white.



Bungalow:
A handful of California builders/architects believed materials should be left as close as possible to their natural state. Wood was to be left natural or stained rather than covered with paint. This idea of respect for the natural state of building materials still remains popular in contemporary architecture even though bungalows are rarely built.


Ranch/Split Level:
Most ranch style houses feature a large porch where the family or neighborhood can gather. With the arrivals of air conditioning and automobiles, the front of the house was given a garage while a less public rear patio served some of the porches function. Split levels are related to ranch houses, but with three levels of living areas. They represent an economical way to build the most living space for the least cost.

Prairie Style:
Frank Lloyd Wright saw houses as "organic" structures that seem to grow on their sites and harmonize with the land. Horizontal lines rule the Prairie style, accented by wide eaves. Windows are grouped in horizontal bands, and often the bricks themselves are narrow to further accent the horizontal.





Colonial Revival:
The ideas are borrowed from houses built in Colonial times. There are many different types of colonial revival homes including; dutch colonial, spanish colonial, new england, and gorgian. They each have different ideas added to them.






International School:
The international school is influenced by commercial buildings. Its imprint can be seen in the glass towers that dominate large city skylines. The idea is that less is more. International school is a simple, geometric design.







Cape Cod Style:

It is traditionally characterized by a low, broad frame building, generally a story and a half high, with a steep, pitched roof with end gables, a large central chimney and very little ornamentation. Traditional Cape Cod houses were very simple: symmetrically designed with a central front door surrounded by two multi-paned windows on each side.





Colonial Revival (Dutch):
A dutch colonial is easily recognized by its unique "gambrel" style  roof. It's roof looks like a barn's roof. There are other features such as the pilliars taken from colonial times.






Neo-Eclectic:

Neo-Eclectic architecture combines a wide array of decorative techniques taken from an assortment of different periods of historical house styles. It is a response to the clean unadorned modernist styles, such as the Mid-Century modern and Ranch-style house that dominated North American residential design and construction in the first decades after the Second World War. It can be considered an outgrowth of postmodern architecture. It differs   from postmodernism in that it is not creatively experimental