When you go looking for a home here in Fremont, California, you'll notice a marked difference in the home styles from Kingston Ont. real estate and other more northerly and easterly markets. You'll see a lot more single story homes here, where other markets prefer dual story. We'll go over some of the styles and features you'll see in Fremont and the reasons they became so popular in California.
Traditional Ranch Style
The traditional ranch style home is known by many names in the United States: ranch, rambler, rancher. Most of them were built in the heady days of suburban expansion when land was plentiful and Brampton home for sale cost less than a car does today. Millions were built between the 1940s and 1980s. The defining feature of the ranch style home is that they lay spread over a single story instead of rising to two or more storys. Ranch style homes also tended to have low profiles, little external decoration, and large windows.
The reason the ranch style home became so popular in California is the simple physical principal that heat rises. Therefore, if California builders copied the Brooklin homes their eastern counterparts were building, with two to three storeys, the top levels would become so hot in summertime as to be nearly unlivable. Keeping things limited to a single story meant more living space hugged the ground where things were cool.
Raised Ranch Style
Another style you'll want to be familiar with is the raised ranch, although these are much less common than their traditional counterparts. Dreamed up by builders outside of the traditional locations that real ranches were once built, a Toronto Beaches real estate agent might say that raised ranch homes attempt to give the homeowner the benefits of a ranch home and a two storey home simultaneously, with mixed results. Obviously the raising of the main storey negates some of the cooling effect.
In a raised ranch home, the traditional ranch style home has been raised up an extra half storey to accommodate another storey underneath, which is usually half-submerged below the level of the ground. Common complaints from people viewing a raised ranch style home for sale in Georgetown, Ontario are that half of the living space is underground leaving less scenic views from the windows. However, the raised ranch style home still has the low-angle roof and the large windows that made the ranch style attractive.
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