BS: Bungalows are happiest

Subject: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 01:05 AM

Bungalows are the happiest houses. Official.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 01:08 AM

Ah, but what size? Bungalows in the UK are MUCH bigger than fit the designation in the US. It may be easier to be happy in a 12-room bungalow than in a minimal four rooms.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 01:18 AM

I think the tv news said 3 bedrooms.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 01:40 AM

You'd be happy too if you had a cool name like "bungalow". Other houses have names like "ranch-house" or "split-level" or "double-wide mobile-home" or "mansion". Bungalows are happy homes! What could be better than to sit on the veranda of one's bungalow and eat a big helpng of vandaloo and rice?

By the way, did you know that vandaloo and rice is an anagram for Leonardo DaVinci, who probably never lived in a bungalow.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 02:31 AM

The bungalow was invented when a builder, while building a normal two-storey house, found he had run out of bricks after completing the ground floor.

"Not to worry" he said to himself. "I'll bung a low roof on it!"



Doug C

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Sooz
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 02:47 AM

Hey Bungalow Bill........

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: El Dano
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:27 AM

The yorkshire post reckons the happiest bungalow is in Spalding in Lincolnshire.
But does not go on to say where they get their definition of hapiness

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Trevor
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:34 AM

'Bungaloid' is one of my favourite words!

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 08:28 AM

You are happy if your bungalow has:
3 bedrooms,
2 bathrooms
1 small garden
0 stairs

This means that, basically, if you thought you were smart converting your bungalow's roof space and sticking in a staircase, you are fucked. Official.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 08:32 AM

living anywheres all right. its when you've got to go out and earn money, that is when problems arise - I have found.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 08:40 AM

wld,

You've been and gone and put stairs in your bungalow;
right?

Sell the stairs, you will find happiness.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: El Dano
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 08:56 AM

Come down the stairs before you sell them

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Jeanie
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 09:42 AM

According to a news article today relating to this, bungalows represent only 2 % of Britain's housing stock. The people living in them are likely to have made a deliberate choice for this (rare) type of housing over any other, so they are necessarily going to consider themselves happy living there.

I don't know if it's the same in the US, but in Britain, bungalows and their inhabitants tend to have a certain "image" - generally older generation, keen on suburban neatness and cosiness and conventionality: the kind of people who would classify themselves as "contented" - as in this survey by one of the major Building Societies. I don't think you'd find many young people, or people of any age who still think of themselves as "young" choosing to live in a bungalow !

This may well be my quirky view on things, but not every single-storey dwelling is a "bungalow". A "bungalow", in my book, is brick-built, suburban and built any time from 1920s to present day. I, for one, would not be at all happy living in one (even though I qualify on age grounds now).

- jeanie (tongue-in-cheek but nevertheless incurring the wrath of bungalow dwellers everywhere....)

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 09:57 AM

Jeanie

Well I don't live in a bungalow and I fell down the bastarding stairs. Busted my ankle for months.


I'd be content without stairs.


Or if I used the bastarding banister to hold onto when traipsing downstairs carrying stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Layah
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 10:47 AM

I never knew people lived in bungalows. My first elementary school had bungalows, and they were temporary buildings that had been set up in the playground because they didn't have enough classrooms. I am not sure why they were called temporary, because they were there permanantly, and didn't look liek they'd be moving any time soon. They were just one room, occasionally with an attached bathroom. They were often a few feet above the ground, but they didn't have stairs either, just a ramp.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 10:50 AM

Defintiion:

small one-story house or cottage.
www.lakeplacidrealestate.com/glossary.html


Popular in California, bungalows provide simple and affordable middle class housing. They are small and easy to build with a square floor plan, gables, usually one large middle dormer, and porches with big square columns that are larger on the bottom. Bungalows are usually 1200 square feet or smaller.
www.nwbuildnet.com/stores/hp/rg/glossary.html

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 11:07 AM

Small manageable gardens are very welcome and = happiness.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Layah
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 11:09 AM

I think I used to live in a bungalow and never knew it. Then my parents moved into a duplex. I think if it wasn't attached to another half house it would fit the definition for bungalow as well. Most houses in California are single story. Not always that small though.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Bert
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 11:17 AM

Gables and a dormer on a Bungalow? I thought that a bungalow had a hip roof and definately no upper floor which a dormer would indicate.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 11:59 AM

This thread may explain why there are no bungalow songs? I mean if people are so damn happy, they may not bother writing any.

There's a bungalow in this town across the street from my house, one of the ones that was sold as a kit by Sears Roebuck back in the 1920's. It's got a gable roof and a 3-pillar front porch, and, given the 2nd story windows in the gable ends, appears to have a second story. However, I don't know if there are any stairs.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:19 PM

Aha, but there is a bungalow song! I posted one a few years back and it should be in the DT.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Bert
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:21 PM

Is that really a bungalow?

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:26 PM

The term comes from India, basically it is typically a one story house with a veranda.

In the Land of the Bungalow

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: jimmyt
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:29 PM

In AMerica we have Craftsman Bungalows as a style of archetecture from I think the 20s-30s and many of these very simple structures were actually sold through catalogs ie sears and roebuck or Montgomery Ward. They arrives by freight precut, you then followed the instructions and built them by the instructions.   Hell I can't even put a tricycle together I would be a mess with a bungalow. My nephew owns one and he found the original order papers and instructions in the basemenmt. Cost $895 complete in the 30s. A pretty neat little home in my opinion. Lots of young people are flocking to own bungalows here in the states

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Bert
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:31 PM

I heard somewhere that the word bungalow is derived from the town of Bangalore.

So I thought I'd take a look and see if I could find out what bungalow means in Bangalore.

and here's what I found

Ah well.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:38 PM

It's true my mate 'Bungalow' is very happy. We call him that because he's got F**k All upstairs!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:42 PM

Well they certainly managed to add a lot of bungle to that bungalow, Giok.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:44 PM

sorry, that should have been addressed to Bert.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 02:15 PM

A bit over my head - but that's another storey.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: GUEST,Hooray
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:07 AM

Bungalows=oldish people=happy=sing and dance=go to folk clubs.

Great isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:18 AM

Surely every dog lover already knew this.

After all, Dachshunds with erections...Can't climb stairs.

Subject: RE: BS: Bungalows are happiest
From: LilyFestre
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:19 PM

Hmmm...I don't know about bungalows being the happiest for everybody...I'm pretty partial to our cabin in the woods......no stairs, but a ladder to the loft.....away from the world, lots of ferns, a small pond, frogs croaking like ducks...an outhouse with a sunroof, a small deck to sit and watch the deer from, bear tracks to explore....yep....I like the thought of a cabin far better than a bungalow!

Michelle :)