Here are some pictures of my house in Waterloo, Iowa.  Built in 1926, it's a bungalow with some cottage or Tudor features, particularly the prominent decorative chimney facing the front.  What is typically the side of a bungalow here faces the tree-lined boulevard, while the porch and sunroom face the side street.  The interior layout is classic, however.

Here's the exterior from two different angles (because of the big trees in front, it's hard to get an overall shot).  The house has an attached one-car garage with a bedroom over it.  I've been told it's probably a later addition, but the matching style of the woodwork and the original light fixtures suggest it's still quite early.  The house has aluminum siding which I can't afford to do anything about anytime soon -- at least the color's decent!

My chimney, which was crumbling and unusable, was restored and mortar-lined in Fall 2003 (and the top third rebuilt using the original bricks after it collapsed during tuckpointing).  A long, stressful, expensive, but ultimately worthwhile process.

A broad view of the property in the winter... there are a lot of trees, a number of them really big,  (I've identified Norway spruce, maple, elm, ash, northern white cedar, and arborvitae, but there are some others I'm not sure of.)

Below left, the back side of the house with a view of the detached garage/shed and the raised vegetable bed I put in.  (The maple here is one of the reddest in the fall I've seen in town; the green bush visible in front of it is part of a row of lilacs.)  The bedroom windows look out back here.

Right, the woodsy "backyard" behind the shed and attached garage.  There are more lilacs here, and spirea, and I'm working on adding ferns and other shade plants.  The siding on the house unfortunately covers a window in the garage; the windows you see are in my upstairs office room.  This summer I repainted the garage-sale Adirondack chairs a coppery red. 

Below are several views of the front porch.  I believe it was always enclosed with screens (it has triple-tracks now).   Two sides have clapboard walls, two sides are tapestry brick with a wide cement sill and windows above, and the inside of the porch-pillars at the corners.   When I bought the house, the walls were  painted a noxious 1970s green and the floor was two shades of red; I've repainted in Arts & Crafts colors.   I sometimes call it the "cat porch" ....