List of house styles

This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses.

v t e Rooms and spaces of a house
Shared rooms	Bonus room Common room Den Dining room Family room Garret Great room Home cinema Keeping room Kitchen dirty kitchen kitchenette Living room Gynaeceum harem Andron man cave Recreation room billiard room Shrine Study Sunroom
Private rooms	Bathroom toilet Bedroom closet Bedsit Boudoir Cabinet Nursery
Spaces	Atrium Balcony Breezeway Conversation pit Cubby-hole Deck Elevator dumbwaiter Entryway/Genkan Fireplace hearth Foyer Hall Hallway Inglenook Lanai Loft Loggia Overhang Patio Porch screened sleeping Ramp Secret passage Stairs/Staircase Terrace Veranda Vestibule
Technical, utility and storage	Attic Basement Carport Cloakroom Closet Crawl space Electrical room Equipment room Furnace room / Boiler room Garage Janitorial closet Larder Laundry room / Utility room / Storage room Mechanical room / floor Pantry Root cellar Semi-basement Storm cellar / Safe room Studio Wardrobe Wine cellar Wiring closet Workshop
Great house areas	Antechamber Ballroom Kitchen-related butler's pantry buttery saucery scullery spicery still room Conservatory / Orangery Courtyard Drawing room Great chamber Great hall Library Long gallery Lumber room Parlour Sauna Servants' hall Servants' quarters Smoking room Solar State room Swimming pool Turret Undercroft
Other	Furniture Hidden room House house plan styles types Multi-family residential Secondary suite Duplex Terraced Detached Semi-detached Townhouse Studio apartment
Architectural elements	Arch Balconet Baluster Belt course Bressummer Ceiling Chimney Colonnade / Portico Column Cornice / Eaves Dome Door Ell Floor Foundation Gable Gate Portal Lighting Molding Ornament Plumbing Quoins Roof shingles Roof lantern Sill plate Style list Skylight Threshold Transom Vault Wall Window
Related	Backyard Driveway Front yard Garden roof garden Home Home improvement Home repair Shed Tree house
Category: Rooms

List of house styles

Asian

South American

Mediterranean, Spanish, Italian

Neoclassical

Elizabethan and Tudor

Colonial

French and Canadian

Victorian and Queen Anne

American

Indian

Central and Eastern European

Modern and Post-modern

See also

References

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