Craftsman Style Homes

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Craftsman Style Homes
You may have spotted how extensive the influence of the Craftsmen style is on TV programming?  It says an awful lot for the appeal of the evocative architectural style.  A was perhaps the real star of You, Me and Dupree, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer lived in one too.  You can live in one as well ...
From a film point of view, Craftsmen homes are excellent; being wide and flat (generally on one level or a low-set second story), restrained and yet significant, with a inviting front entrance quite often given a feeling of grandeur by the stairs leading up to it.  Basically because these properties are aged, they also typically to have plenty of plants to frame the property.
Within it, the Craftsman style house features a pleasant background too, with distinctive millwork, property furniture and bookcases.
With it's roots in California, you might argue that the prevalence of Craftsman real estate in the Hollywood community has had a influence, but there's little doubt that this influential home style and unpretentious luxury has transcended the established 1-1½ storey residence and helped to shape many an American household.
As the ornamentation characteristic of 19th Century Victorian-era buildings of the prosperous started to look rather outrageous, and industrialization was deemed as mass-producing indifferent goods, a more harmonic direction of architecture was established that stimulated uncomplicated insightful design and style.
It was "organic" property design, a long time before that terminology even existed, with it's focal point on holistic and native materials (in particular lumber and stone), a pure and rustic look that blends in with and harmonizes with the immediate landscaping, and they were typically purchased as a pre cut bundle to be assembled by local workcrews.
These were buildings integrated by talented craftsmen, with an emphasis on being practical, rather than luxuriant, and is seen a mark of family values and the dreams of the working man to establish a much better life for his family to live in comfort.