{"id":97526,"date":"2018-09-09T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-rise-of-the-bungalow-people-can-be-snobbish-but-attitudes-are-changing\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T05:04:07","slug":"the-rise-of-the-bungalow-people-can-be-snobbish-but-attitudes-are-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-rise-of-the-bungalow-people-can-be-snobbish-but-attitudes-are-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the bungalow: \u2018People can be snobbish, but attitudes are changing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSingle-storey living is the way ahead for the textile designer Ptolemy MannDuring its colonial heyday, the bungalow \u2013 a word derived from the Hindi word \u201cbangla\u201d meaning \u201cbelonging to Bengal\u201d \u2013 was a practical, elegant structure. Shuttered rooms provided refuge from tropical heat. Deep verandahs were the setting for sundowners with tea planters, tax collectors and fellow servants of the British Raj. Then the bungalow arrived in Britain \u2013 and things went downhill. The advent of cheap, pre-fabricated building materials led to a rash of \u201cbungaloid\u201d developments across countryside and coastline. By the 1960s bungalows caught on with retirees who appreciated their lack of stairs. A symbol of a carefree, expat existence came to epitomise all that was unimaginative, and frumpy, about British housing. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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