BUILD A CRAFTSMAN BUNGALOW FOR $2500. PLANS $10

The Broadmoor Neighborhood in San Leandro is just one of the many neighborhoods in our Bay Area that graced with the California Bungalow/Craftsman homes.

This booklet is the building plans that were available to build your home for as little as $2500.

See if you can find a familiar style home you live in, grew up in or know of. Let's see what styles are the most identified. Post a comment and the style # you remember and where. This should be fun.

As you look at the plans you will notice all of them have sleeping porches. Here is a link to the history of the sleeping porch.

Here is the link to the Broadmoor Bungalow Book.

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