Beautiful! I love bungalows and very much wanted one myself. They are my all-time favorite style of house. Ended up falling in love with a Cape, which I said I would never own because I hated double-dog-house dormers. *roll eyes* Go figure :)

Please keep us updated... take lots of pictures! Having just moved into our small home two months ago, I am dying to see pictures of other people's spaces. Good luck on the kitchen reno! I wish we had the money to do the same. Our kitchen is a bit of a freak show, and I can't wait to tackle it... but it will be years before a full redo of ours.

Thanks for sharing your home and congrats!

Hi! You have a very nice home. The interior looks a lot like our 1913 bungalow. The "little hut type things" are called dormers :-). I think shingles would look very appropriate on your gable ends and dormers. We decided to put cedar shingles in our gables and when we tore off the alumnimum siding guess what was up there originally? Shingles! Who knows what is under your current siding! Wide trim around the windows would be appropriate as well. Sounds like your kitchen is going to be fantastic. Would love to see pictures when you are finished. It is nice that you are trying to stay fairly true to the period and bones of your vintage home. Our upstairs sounds similar to yours, but we only have one dormer. From what you describe, I bet your upstairs has tons of potential. We've been renovating ours into a master suite.

I also visit the old houses forum. I like it and get lots of good information there. There are often posts about exterior paint schemes for period homes over there too. But beware that forum is not always for everyone - we have some preservationist purists over there (and on some topics I'd be one). Most everyone is helpful, but I can tell we've "driven off" some new owners of old houses. Anyhow, welcome, and it was great looking at your home and hearing about your plans! -Kim

Thank you both for your nice responses!
Kim, to be perfectly honest I've been a bit scared to post on the old houses forum for that very reason :) I absolutely love period and historic houses (my absolute favorites are 19th century farmhouses or saltboxes) But this house was in our price range and I'm VERY familiar with the neighborhood and couldn't pass it up. I love the history of this house and this neighborhood and if it had all the markings of a real A&C bungalow I'd do everything I could to save them. As it stands, DH convinced me it would be easier to redo the moulding we had to remove in the kitchen so I caved. It will still look the rest of the house :)

I'll definitely post pictures as soon as the kitchen is done and once the other rooms are back to their original state (right now the kitchen is currently in every other room downstairs, haha!) I'll post pictures of them as well. We have some plans to build in some dresser/bookshelves in the bedroom downstairs and also add a bathroom upstairs and paint and replace carpets up there. We also tore up the carpet in the bedroom downstairs but haven't refinished them yet. As these projects move forward I'll update on them as well.

Right now it's just DH, myself and our 5 month old puppy. If we have kids I can picture them (when they're old enough) having the upstairs as their rooms, bathroom and study and play area in the loft and we'll keep our bedroom down here.

We've also toyed around with the idea of finishing the basement, but that would take some rearranging and long term planning.

One note: when we removed the siding to replace the windows in the side of the house in the kitchen we did find old clappered (sp?) boards and shingles up top. they were all a gray color. I'm not sure I want to do gray, but it's something to think about. My nana can't remember what color the house was as they resided and closed off some of the loft upstairs into a 3rd bedroom in the 40s when 2 of the daughters (one was the owner we bought the house from) got married in the house in the same year.

At that time all 3 daughters/husbands and their parents and some of their kids all lived in the house at the same time. I think there were 10 people living here at one time and have NO idea how they did it!!

But I figured if they can do it with that many people, we can certainly have a few kids here! :)

Craftlady- Your home is so pretty and I love the historic details and your floors! The banquette in the kitchen is a wonderful idea :)

Don't worry about the older homes forum. Most of them are very nice. Right now, I have my plan over there, which includes taking down walls! (LOL) Just ignore the negative comments and focus on the positive ones.

Welcome to the Smaller Homes hangout.
Before I forget it, what you have front and back are two identical DOG HOUSE DORMERS. I read that in a book about identifying features on a house. It is a really wide dormer, and might have given you more space upstairs if it had been a shed-roofed dormer. You might find one day that it would pay to change that present dormer and make it longer to gain more bedroom space.

Glad you are coming to hang out with us. Your house is quite lovely outside, including the color and the way you keep your yard shows you like a beautiful landscape. And man alive, those FLOORS AND WOODWORK!!! When will we get a peek at the kitchen? Is it almost done?

You and your DH have a romantic Honeymoon Cottage to live in. Have you thought about NAMING it? :)

Happy New Year.

Thanks everyone! Thanks for the information on the dormer, that gives me something else to research. We had toyed around with the idea of razing the 2nd floor altogether and completely redesigning it but nixed that idea (for now anyway).
The kitchen is down to the studs right now, I hope to have a working kichen by the end of January :) I posted a thread on the kitchen forum with pictures of all my ideas and linked it below if you're interested.

I have also changed the landscaping to more of a cottage garden. I love continuous color all season and various textures so I'll work on adding some of those pictures as well.

I have considered naming the house but haven't really come up with anything yet. I'll have to give it some more thought :)

I'll see what other pictures I can get off the external hard drive this weekend to give you some other images of the house. I truly enjoy this house and we love giving it our own personal touch!

Craftlady your house is just darling. I am not seeing your kitchen link. Would also love to see your garden changes.

is this your Kitchen forum post?

Here is a link that might be useful: Craftlady kitchen ideas?

aw crud, Sorry I forgot the link. But ML found it, thanks! :)

We got the old floor up and the joists fixed and new subfloor down this weekend so I didn't have much time on the computer and now I have to help DH re-hook up the electric in the basement so I won't get a chance to get more pics up tonight. But I'll work on it soon.

Your house is so pretty. I also have a 1928 bungalow about the same size and very similar to yours. My living room has the kind of same woodwork and it sounds like you have a similar layout (my bedrooms are on the right side as well). My kitchen is not nearly that big so would love to see pics of yours. You mentioned having to raise windows on the sun porch. How tall is the banquette. I have a sun porch that I am trying to figure out what to do with. It is tiny but I was thinking I might be able to put a window seat and make a reading nook or something like that.

Welcome Crafty. No idea how I missed this post from December. Sorry. LOVE your house So cute. Also love to see any pictures you are willing to share. Our kitchen is about 12 1/2 by 21 or 22 I forget. It is a great size.

Here's our little bungalow. It's the house we left for this one. I still wish we would have stayed. I loved that house, with all my heart.

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OH Wendy Precious. It looks like a well loved bungalow. I hope it is ok for me save your photo. It really gives me ideas on our front porch. If I closed in one side it would look so cute just like yours does. Would also create an air block to the front door. Would not be open to the house except the front door. Your window boxes and pretty plants. So so pretty.

Thanks, Shades. Of course I don't mind.

I love Craftsman homes. Unfortunately for me, the hubby wanted a newer "nicer" home. I think "nicer" depends on what your definition is, because mine certainly didn't include what we bought.