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Bungalow Revival written by Tina Fountain
A bungalow is, in a westernized sense, a small detached house with usually either one or one and a half stories. The original idea for what we now know as a bungalow came from the Bengali housing used by British soldiers during their colonial occupation of India.

Going Small in an Era of Big written by RE Writer
Environmental concerns are just some of the motivation behind what's known as the Small House Movement, which is a growing community of homeowners and builders that are encouraging people to live in smaller homes or in multi-family dwellings.

Why Buying Smaller is Better written by RE Writer
However, the fact remains that many of these foreclosures come from people taking out huge adjustable mortgages on huge homes with an inadequate income to deal with the interest. Once the interest rates changed, those people could not hope to afford the payments. It could all have been avoided with the purchase of a more modest home and a fixed-rate mortgage.

Small Is Beautiful written by Carol Freyer
One major bonus of Shafer's homes is the low cost of heating. Heated with propane, his own home—a smaller model—costs him $170 per year to heat, and that's in Iowa, where winters are winters. Plus, a smaller home requires less maintenance. Everything is smaller and therefore the amount of work to be done is less: less to dust, less to vacuum.

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