When you're making your wish list for your Etobicoke real estate agent there are a number of things that will help your agent to narrow down the list of possibilities. Number of bedrooms and bathrooms are important of course, but so is the style of the home. If you can give your agent an architectural style to aim for, she'll be able to zero in on the features that you like in a home. Some architectural styles have very rigid standards, but others don't. For instance, what will your agent bring you if you ask her to find you a bungalow.

If you're asking here in Mesa, Arizona, the house she approaches you will won't bear much resemblance to the house a Bowmanville real estate agent would bring forward because the word "bungalow" refers to a different style of house depending on where you live. Here in Mesa, she would probably bring you the listings for a number of small, single storey houses with one or two (at the most three) bedroom and usually one bathroom, because in most of the United States a "bungalow" is just a small detached house.

There aren't many style connotations to some definitions of the word "bungalow," especially the one we use here in Mesa. The small houses on your realtors list will range in style from modern planned development style to small Spanish Colonial Revival style ranch homes. The same thing would happen if you searched for "bungalow" in the Waterloo, Ontario real estate listings, as this non-specific single family home definition prevails in most of Canada as well.

Meanwhile if you were to ask for a bungalow in California, just one state away, the situation would be very different. Californians have a very specific definition of the word "bungalow" because there's an architectural style popular in that area known as the California Bungalow (or Craftsman Bungalow). These can actually be found in Pleasant Valley NY Real Estate as well and as far away as Australia. Features of a California bungalow include one story with an extra half story as a gable, plus a wide porch covering the front of the house.

Some newbies to the Mesa, Arizona area might actually mean something completely different when they ask their realtor for a "bungalow." New residents who have come from South Africa, Ireland, parts of England, and the island of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia will subscribe to a different definition of "bungalow" than the one used in Mississauga real estate. They will mean "vacation house" (usually on a lake). This definition has no size or architectural requirements. This is something you'll want to keep in mind if you're from one of these areas and moving to Mesa.