Today, million-dollar bungalows or two-bedroom condos are more like it--at least, in highly sought-after American locales.
Thatched bungalows are scattered about a landscaped compound dominated by a cliffside infinity pool.
Over the years, political parties have been granted bungalows to serve as their headquarters.
Emergency services have been prioritising getting the elderly and those who live in bungalows to safety.
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Ireland these years produces poets and novelists at the same rate as hideous bungalows.
In West Mumbai, meanwhile, the suburb of Bandra attracts Bollywood movie stars and business owners to its individual bungalows.
Eighty-two unused beach bungalows would be converted into 42 "super chalets" for hire and lease.
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In Davis Park, a community of bungalows tucked amid twisted trees, the work was painstaking this week.
The tightly packed streets of Oakwood Beach were first populated in the 1930s with wooden beach bungalows.
They took the place of bungalows which were originally built in the 1960s but since deemed unsafe.
In place of flashy condos and ostentatious estates, colorful row houses and cozy bungalows set the tone.
Pat Gowen, from Friends of the Earth, says 96 bungalows have been lost at Winterton-on-Sea, including his own.
Maybe these bungalows seemed a bit slummy, but not compared with what Houston had seen in Southeast Asia.
In 2008, three cliff-top bungalows were condemned and demolished after landslips and there was further slippage in 2010.
Have lunch at Meneghello Place ( www.palmizana.hr), a family-run artists' retreat with villas and bungalows dotted around subtropical gardens.
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Big changes are likely for the tightknit shorefront community that until recently only allowed bungalows and modest two-story homes.
In the overwater bungalows, a square of glass in the floor gives you a direct view of the water.
He and the second Mrs Hughes, Jean Peters, occupied separate bungalows in the grounds of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Bungalows with twin or double beds and private bathrooms are less romantic but still feel natural with wooden beds and plank floors.
Still under construction, it will include 102 townhouses, apartments, and bungalows, with a community center, walking trails, shops, and restaurants.
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Only 10 of the 38 bungalows are air-conditioned, and the front desk is staffed less than 12 hours a day.
At Taman Sari bungalows are set on a long stretch of quiet beach, and feature intricate carvings and other traditional artwork.
Planning officers for the Conservative-controlled council said the development should contain 36 affordable homes ranging from one-bedroom bungalows to four-bedroom houses.
Cahyo has built a small and basic resort in the area, comprising five bungalows and five family tents on the land.
Originally built as a home in 1996 by Chilean migrants Soledad Sumar and Pablo Garimani, the bungalows evolved into a lodge almost by accident.
For mid-range comfort Christina Beach Palace offers lovely bungalows amid well-tended gardens while still an easy stroll from all the restaurants.
Breezy Point, with a population of about 4, 000, was built as a private community of summer bungalows in the early 20th century.
Illinois's fifth district, which stretches from posh flats on Chicago's lakefront through working-class bungalows to the suburbs near O'Hare airport, is reliably blue.
The bungalows are spacious (nearly 600 square feet) but spare, with extra-firm mattresses and daybeds, stark white fabrics, and unadorned wood and woven-pandanus walls.
"It's scandalous that out-of-office politicians should keep official bungalows as their private property, " says Hari Dev Shourie, director of Common Cause, a consumer-rights organization.
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