What was the craze for bungalows all about? and now, do they still build swathes of estates with bungalows?

[EleanorReally]

because now you tend to assume they house older people.
i lived in a bungalow as a child
do they only build occasional bungalows now?

Quite a few down here on S coast for sale.Apparently first built as a kind of "hangover " from Colonial India ,where apparently they were seen as a more hygenic way of living.My Nan dreamed of having a bungalow in the 60s/70s .My Aunt had one but it was quite small.I think the whole way of life has changed since then .Maybe people generally didnt live to such a ripe old age, and were expecting to move to a nice little bungalow in their 40s or 50s ?.Less to keep clean and so desirable.All retirement flats now sadly

There are older estates about with streets of bungalows but all the new estates round here often feature absolutely none- even on huge developments.

Investing in stairlift technology could be a wise move

Bungalows really hold their value. Most are spacious and usually have decent sized gardens. I'd definitely consider one.

I live in a bungalow with 2 DD's it has a drive and large garden, also a car parking space at the back of the house. We have neighbours but none over looking us. I go through stages of loving it and hating it haha. Was a godsend when potty training though.
Only problem when children are in bed at night you have to be a bit quiet as all on the one level as opposed to them being upstairs. They sell like hot cakes around here. All my neighbour are elderly and I'm mid 40s.

Orange

No gardens, noise, maintenance fee just of the top of my head.

@EleanorReally what’s a dorma bungalow?

a bedroom in the attic i think

Agree with @MondeoFan - once DC were in bed I couldn't get from living room to kitchen without being spotted by them if they were sat behind their stairgates! 😆

@JudgeRindersMinder it's bedrooms in the roof space, usually with velux windows. I lived in a dorma bungalow for years.

Ah you mean dormER! Thank you, it must be an accent thing!
A dormER window is a particular type of window that’s built out from the roof to give more roof space. My parents built their house as a bungalow and added a couple of bedrooms with dormers when I came along. A roof with a vela’s window isn’t a dormer.

There is a shortage in the market because estate agents generally do not have the experience to be able to sell them on. This explains everything;

lifts are a great invention.

They are, until they break down and aren't repaired, sometimes for weeks. Leaving disabled and elderly people stranded. There are numerous stories available of residents being trapped for weeks, sometimes over a month.

Yep, that's it. We had the normal dormer windows on one side and velux's on the other side. Baking hot in summer and freezing in winter. Loved my old bedroom!

They were on to something with those post war prefabs weren't they ?

We need a modern equivalent with whizzo insulation .

We’ve got a dormer bungalow, I absolutely love it, we added the bedrooms upstairs for the kids and I think they’ll appreciate having a floor to themselves when in their teenage years.
We’ve also got a bedroom downstairs for us which will see us through to old age so we’ll never have to move, as a PP said our older neighbours just don’t use their dormers unless their family are over.

We’ve got a huge drive and garden and as the whole close is bungalows the roof line being that much lower gives a real feeling of space and we see some great sunrises/sunsets.

We’re the youngest on our street so it will be interesting to see if more family’s move in over the years as the ‘problem’ with older bungalows is that generally they need a lot of work and lots of older people don’t have the energy or desire to do them up.
Ours will take £££ to update over the next 10 years but as it’s where we’re staying we don’t mind.

Dh lived in a bungalow for a lot of his childhood and his parents still live there. It takes up a big plot of land - 3 bed though not particularly large really - and also has a big garden. Where they live there are so many bungalows from the same time - more bungalows than houses! We've noticed more and more are being sold off, knocked about and turned into two storey homes. Some are even having another house built on the same site.

Only other people I know in bungalows are elderly people such as my grandma who has one of the 'supervised' type ones where there's an emergency cord that alerts a warden.

They just aren't built now. Too much space needed.

JudgeRindersMinder
Ah you mean dormER! Thank you, it must be an accent thing!

It’s not an accent thing!

Estate agents are particularly fond of using dorma, & if you google it you’ll find plenty of examples.

Love them! Grew up in one.

@Giantkitten, I just googled and got “did you mean dormer window”

They’ve always been very popular in NI because people tend to build one house and live in it for life . A bungalow can adapt to fit any age group .
My parents recently moved into a newly built bungalow and my brother moved into the farmhouse . Theyre fantastic for people with mobility issues .

Bungalows are standardwherei am from. Much cheaper to build.

Like Judgerinders I'm pretty sure it's dormer. Both bungalows and dormers are really common here in Ireland, I grew up in one as did all but one of my friends.

My friemd bought one when they were out of fashion for a little while so the price was reasonable. Their garden is HUGE and flat so easy for them to landscape and use.
I bet that's a huge part of their appeal. We live fairly rurally but garden of that size really only comes with large farmhouses or very big expensive houses usually.

JudgeRindersMinder
Giantkitten, I just googled and got “did you mean dormer window”

You need to instruct google to do as it’s told sometimes I didn’t say dormer isn’t correct, just that dorma is used fairly frequently.

“Search only for dorma windows” produces these (among others)

I was born in my parents bungalow, it was on a 1960s self build project that my dad got involved in.
Dh grew up South Africa where bungalows are totally the norm. And for a while we lived in New Zealand where again it’s the norm, but that’s all to do with land prices and population size.
We still have quite a few post war prefabs in our town including a whole road full very close to my house.