Simplicity

Craftsman House Plans ? Family, Simplicity and Elegance 1.   How did craftsman house plans become popular?During the overlapping periods of the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era, the upper-class tended to build large opulent homes, often made from mass produced materials. The common folk, be they laborers, farmers, or other professionals, lived in simpler, hand-built homes, using natural materials and their own skilled hands to build their abode. These aspects of society both the using of mass-produced materials for the construction, as well as the large, over-done home design, was symbolic of that periods disregard for the common working man. This disregard is expressed by the fact that the upper-class used construction materials that might have been made by the common worker,... 

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