Show A TYPICAL SOUTHERN HOUSE either a bambi ng bungalow Buna alow or mod 1 ern frame structure externally the typical southern house 0 the present is either a ram bling bungalow like witchwood one of the most attracts e places near asheville an structure with white columns a reproduction in part ot some old antebellum man alons for the like of which the south was famous or a modern frame structure quite arch textural tec tural and corn pact with leaded windows halftime ber borders and an open terrace built upon a foundation of gray stone with coping of the same or modification ot these three ideas in its interior arrangement says a writer in the house beautiful the southern residence has always been called upon to meet not only the de mands of convenience and comfort but also those of hospitality and en as well for the south erner is decidedly a social being given to entertainment in all its forms this characteristic was not only gratified but actually fostered by the big rooms of the white col houses of the old auth soon after the war the popularize lariza tion of the sliding door made it pos sible for small rooms to perform the functions of large ones on occasions and for a while the southern builder cut his house up after the manner of his northern brother though not quite in the jsam restricted proper thins that phase ma now be said to liace passed and general taste in the south is once more in favor of spacious chambers so genuine is this preference that even in small bouses the space usually divided be tween two rooms is now given to one usually the room thus formed is a long one a sort of salon |