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For Mallory Mathison Glenn and her would-be clients, the 2009 Southern Living Idea House in Dahlonega, Georgia, proved to be something of a meet-cute. She was the home’s interior designer, and ...
The Idea House will be open to the public for tours from August through December, Thursday through Sunday. Thursday through Saturday, hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, hours ...
Florida cracker style house. Florida cracker architecture or Southern plantation style is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a low slung, wood-frame house, with a large porch. It was widespread in the 19th and early 20th century.
The breezeway through the center of the house is a unique feature, with rooms of the house opening into the breezeway. The breezeway provided a cooler covered area for sitting. The combination of the breezeway and open windows in the rooms of the house allowed outside air to enter the living quarters in the pre–air-conditioning era. [5]
A shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than about 12 feet (3.5 m) wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house. It was the most popular style of house in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War (1861–65) through the 1920s
The original finished house consisted of three bedrooms, two baths, a study, a living room, a dining room, a screened in porch, and a small basement utility room. In the original plans the kitchen was labeled as a workspace that included the clothes washer and dryer. Later a family room, two bedrooms, and a basement were added to the house. [5]
Rocket Homes observes that more Americans may be moving away from open-concept floor plans because the kitchen is no longer “the epicenter of the house party,” with only 12.4% of respondents ...
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.