500 Bungalows Paperback – October 3, 2006

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.

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 Thorntonco-author, California's Kit Homes

I like it a lot. Would order again.

Be aware that the book is 5x7, but it is a good quality book with great pictures. My problem is not really with the quality of pictures but that i wanted a book with more two-story bungalows and some ideas on blue prints. I want to build a house in the next 5 years and i want some ideas and some blue prints that i can either use or manipulate. This book did not help with these issues. To me, this book will be an idea coffee-table picture book but thats about it; and although the pictures are great, i personally have seen better bungalows that deserve to be in this book. sorry:(

Great small sized idea book if your looking for paint and accessory ideas to update or change your homes exterior.

I didnt realize it was just a photo of the exterior of a bungalow. i expected interiors too.

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.

I don't know if it was stated in the review that this is just a picture-book (photo collection), but that is all it is. 500 photographs of bungalows from across the US. That being said, the photography is top-notch, and the sampling is wonderful. THis is a great littke book for anyone who loves bungalows, or is in the decorating/restoration/community-building field and needs a handy reference of what a great bungalow should (or could) look like.