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500 Bungalows | 
| Creator: Douglas Keister
Publisher: Taunton
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 120837
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 4.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 1561588423
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.373
EAN: 9781561588428
ASIN: 1561588423
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
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Product Description
Popularity meets affordability as America's favorite house style (according to a 2005 survey on About/Architecture.com) comes at a price point that every bungalow fan can afford. There is perennial interest in all things bungalow related. Every year there are numerous books, magazines and floor plans published that are all geared to the bungalow enthusiast. Taunton Press has published several bungalow-related books to great success including Bungalow Style and Updating Classic America: Bungalows. 500 Bungalows features an irresistible package at an incredible price, making this the perfect stocking stuffer or impulse buy.
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 Great exterior photos! February 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is wonderful if exterior bungalow photos are what you are looking for. As a remodeler who specializes in 1920's bungalows, I often need reference photos for ideas. This book is ideal for this purpose, or if you just want to dream about ideas for your own home. One small complaint is that we found some duplicate photos within the book. And I don't mean different views, for instance a front and a side elevation. That I understand. I mean the same house fifty pages later with a different title. Kinda weird in an otherwise beautiful and exhaustive collection of bungalow facades.
Pretty pictures December 11, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The photos are beautiful and they're all color, but...
This book is a mere 6" by 4" which was a surprise. Plus, the great majority (probably 90%) of the photos are from California. A better title might be, "500 California Bungalows."
The non-Californian photos are from Bellingham, WA, Lincoln, NE and Nashville, TN and a couple from St. Paul, MN. Those are the only other non-CA cities represented in this book.
The book features several photos of kit homes from Pacific Ready-Cut Kit Homes of Los Angeles, but with nary a mention that these are indeed kit homes. For example, the houses on pages 248, 436 and 500 are gorgeous (and classic) examples of the 40,000 homes that Pacific Ready-Cut sold throughout California.
Page 163 features what appears to be a Sears Ashmore, but it is also not mentioned as being a kit home. It's a fun book and as mentioned above, the photos are all crisp, clear and colorful. While it's long on photos, it's way short on text. Two very short pages in the front of the book answer the question, "What is a Bungalow?" and that is the full extent of the historical info.
It's more a miniature coffee-table book, with its pretty, pretty bungalows, outfitted in a dazzling array of bright California colors.
Rose Thornton
co-author, California's Kit Homes
500 Bungalows October 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very enjoyable sight experience of so many, many wonderful looking homes. This style was such an inviting one. Sit back with a cup of coffee, just flip pages and dream.
Good Resource May 20, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book has a large variety of examples of bungalow homes. It's an excellent resource for getting ideas for design when doing remodeling, new design or even landscaping. The pictures are all of exteriors and there is no text, except for captions noting city and state of the home.
 Size Might Matter... March 27, 2007
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Wow... well I must say that I really feel "taken"!! Both Taunton Press and Keister have done excellent work in the past, so I did not think twice about purchasing the book... Unfortunately I did not pay attention to the SIZE! I fully expected this to be a picture book because that was how it was advertised. But I assumed it would be 8"x10" like similar Taunton publications. Did it do what it set out to do? Yes. It is a picture book about cottages. I did not expect the book to be 5" x 6" -- less than half the size of normal books. This is a "post card book". Buyer Beware-- This book is tiny!
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