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A house that refuses to climb stairs and somehow makes that a flex.
means A low, single-storey house, usually with a wide veranda or porch and a sloping roof.
from From Hindi 'bangla,' meaning 'of Bengal' — a 'Bengali-style house,' the low, thatched, veranda-wrapped dwellings British colonists encountered in India. They borrowed the design and the word, and the bungalow sailed back to Britain and beyond as the houses' name for one-storey living.
- origin
- Named after Bengali huts, the bangla style
- single story
- No upstairs means nowhere to hide
- colonial spread
- British exported the design across their empire
- craftsman boom
- America built millions in early 1900s
- aging appeal
- Stair-free living favored by retirees worldwide