bungalow

In the UK bungalows are almost always one storey high, although some have a much smaller second storey built on top. As in the picture below.



I can't speak for America.

In general, a one story structure, occasionally there is a second floor.
(this is in one region of the United States and may be different elsewhere)

I go along with these other gentlemen, that a bungalow is a single storey dwelling which might have a sleeping room above the main floor.

Here's an older one:



Here's a newly constructed one:



Those are both in Toronto. Here are older and newly constructed ones in Chicago:

Now, an important musical interlude:

In Australia a houses aren't generally referred to as bungalows. Here a bungalow is a small building in the back yard of a house usually used as an extra bedroom.

I always assumed that bungalows were one floor open-aired homes that only appeared in rain forests. Never realized that I live in neighborhoords full of nonexotic real estate beasties.

Given how others are defining the architectural term? Kind of a let down from my own misgivings.

She's a gorgeous home, no matter what kind it is.

It's from India.

When I lived in a "Shotgun bungalow" in Nawlin, we had a second floor bedroom but the bungalow rules were that a "second floor" was actually a "HALF A FLOOR" cause the roof line formed the ceiling of that room.

SearsRoebuck would sell one to you through their catalog in the 1920's.
They defined the end of the ARts n Crafts movement and the entrance of Art Moderne , better known as "Art Deco" .
A Shotgun bungalow was designed so that if you fired a shotgun into the front door, it wouldnt hit anything and the pelletcs would exit the house out the back door. All doors and hall ways were in a strait line, so all you did was murder a person and didnt do any damage to the house. Pretty value conscious folks these NAwleeners

I think the bungalow style differs slightly in different areas of the country. When I was a young child we would visit the great-aunts in other parts of the county and those house were usually called bungalows. They all had a wide front porch, usually screened so the mosquitoes couldn't eat you alive...and the porch swings...I loved the porch swings and the wonderful gliders. My cousins and I would scramble to get to the swing first....and I'm guessing those homes were built in the early 30's, but I'm not sure. I loved the floor plans with the big kitchens and large kitchen tables.

below is an online definition of bungalow:

Definition of bungalow
: a one-storied house with a low-pitched roof
also : a house having one and a half stories and usually a front porch