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Las Vegas Home Buying Resources |
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Las Vegas Home Architecture |
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Mostly one and two story homes, three stories are now hitting the market in answer to smaller lot sizes offered by many builders.
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Mostly two and three car garages. Starter homes typically have a one car garage. Two car tandem garages are also available.
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Most production homes are constructed of frame and stucco.
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Custom homes can be built using any architectural style desired.
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Most production homes feature one of the below described architectural styles.
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Roofs are usually covered with tile.
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Along with single family detached houses, Las Vegas residences also include condos, town homes, and other types of attached housing.
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Common Residential Architectural Styles |
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RANCH STYLE |
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Single story; low pitched gable roof; deep-set eaves
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Horizontal, rambling layout: Long, narrow, and low to the ground
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Rectangular, L-shaped, or U-shaped design; Asymmetrical
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Large windows: double-hung, sliding, and picture; Sliding glass doors leading out to patio
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Attached garage; Simple floorplans
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Emphasis on openness (few interior walls) and efficient use of space
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Built from natural materials: Oak floors, wood or brick exterior
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Lack decorative detailing, aside from decorative shutters and porch-roof supports
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The Ranch style is also known as American Ranch, Western Ranch, or California Rambler. Although Ranch style homes are traditionally one-story, Raised Ranch homes may have several levels of living space.
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Sometimes called the California ranch style, this home in the Modern family, originated there in 1930s. It emerged as one of the most popular American styles in the 1950s and 60s, when the automobile had replaced early 20th-century forms of transportation, such as streetcars. Now mobile homebuyers could move to the suburbs into bigger homes on bigger lots. The style takes its cues from Spanish Colonial and Prairie and Craftsman homes, and is characterized by its one-story, pitched-roof construction, built-in garage, wood or brick exterior walls, sliding and picture windows, and sliding doors leading to patios.
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SPANISH ECLECTIC |
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Most common in the Southwest and Florida, Spanish-style architecture takes its cues from the missions of the early Spanish missionaries — such as the one at San Juan Capistrano in California — and includes details from the Moorish, Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance architectural styles. The houses usually have low-pitched tiled roofs, white stucco walls, and rounded windows and doors. Other elements may include scalloped dormers, windows and balconies with elaborate grillwork, decorative tiles around doorways and windows, and a bell tower or two.
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SPLIT LEVEL |
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A modern style that architects created to sequester certain living activities — such as sleeping or socializing — split levels offered an multilevel alternative to the ubiquitous Ranch style in the 1950s. The nether parts of a typical design were devoted to a garage and TV room; the midlevel, which usually jutted out from the two-story section, offered "quieter" quarters, such as the living and dining rooms; and the area above the garage was designed for bedrooms.
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ITALIAN VILLA |
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Also known as Tuscan Revival, the asymmetrical Italian Villa style was inspired by the vernacular architecture of the Italian countryside. Almost all American houses share some traits of the picturesque Italian Villa style home. Symmetry is undesirable in this style, and rooms are grouped by function allowing an infinite number of irregularly shaped houses. Some features are shallow roofs with large brackets under the eaves, red ceramic roof tile, and stucco exterior walls.
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ITALIANATE |
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A two or three story house that is boxlike, or cubic, in shape with very wide roof eaves supported by large brackets. Some Italianate homes feature a rich variety of cast iron porches, balconies, railings, and fences.
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TUDOR |
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Formerly known as Elizabethan, the most common exterior feature of the Tudor house is that of half-timbering. In this type of construction, the actual timber framework of the building is left exposed and the spaces between the timbers filled or "nogged" with brickwork and often covered with white stucco. Almost every suburban area in North America contains a Tudor neighborhood.
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PUEBLO REVIVAL |
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This style is a marriage of an archeological and modern spirit. The Pueblo Style takes it's name from the flat roofed pueblos built by the Hopi and Pueblo Indians in New Mexico and northern Arizona. The Pueblo Revival house is characterized by massive looking battered walls with rounded corners. Roofs are always flat and usually have parapet walls. The most recognizable element is the projecting rounded roof beam knows as a "viga." Walls are plastered and given a heavy rounded look.
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RICHARDSON ROMANESQUE |
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Some characteristics of this house style are turrets, rock-faced exterior walls, heavily emphasized arches, robust columns, deep window reveals, and cavernous door openings. A sense of weight, massiveness, and solidity are stressed in this style.
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