My love is like a storybook story...

[avanta7]

Because I'm weird like this, I've been trying to figure out exactly what style architecture my house is. I wandered around the web for a while and made my way to Old House Web, which had lots and lots of early 20th Century architecture example pictures. Thus began the process of elimination.

It's not the usual Craftsman cottage.

No covered porch with columns, no dormers.

It's not Beaux Arts:


not Prairie:


Definitely not any style Victorian:

which, BTW, I am well aware isn't early 20th century architecture, but they're just sooo pretty!

Ahem. It has elements of Tudor Revival:

but no half-timbered detailing.

None of this website's pictured examples seemed to fit. But way down on the list was the name of a style that had no pictures, but the name itself called to me. Another interwebz search or two later and , finally, I found it.

A Tudor/Craftsman hybrid called Common Storybook.

I live in a storybook one-story, which fills my old-fashioned romantic heart with unadulterated joy.

(Of course, you know this entry was just an excuse to post a picture of my own house again.)

Comments

[amyleaton.livejournal.com]

I love it! :) The house and it's name!

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

*beam*

[mojosmom.livejournal.com]

And a lovely house it is, too!

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

And thank you for indulging me in the obvious fishing for a compliment. :)

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

I appreciate anything that references "The Princess Bride."

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

I thought you would. :)

[asterapallas.livejournal.com]

Storybooks are my favorite type of architecture... Love, love, LOVE them!
I've loved them for years. They are beautiful. Fun to photograph, too!

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

I told my husband for our next house I wanted a tower. He said no. Then he said, "Wait, you mean a gun turret?" "Well, yes, I suppose you could call it a gun turret." "Yes!" he said.