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Types of Houses

Acid House
Acid House

Acid house. Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style was defined primarily by the deep basslines and "squelching" sounds of the Roland TB-303 electronic synthesizer-sequencer.

Classic (Chicago) House
Classic (Chicago) House

The Chicago Houses series from ALSO Design Chicago is famous for its architecture, but there's more to the city than its sky-high towers. Throughout the city's neighborhoods, a wide variety of residential architecture can be found.

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Condominiums
Condominiums

What is a condo? A condo (short for “condominium”) is a private residence owned by an individual or family in a building or community with multiple units. Although condos are usually part of a larger building, "detached condominiums" also exist.

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Deep House
Deep House

Deep house is a subgenre of house music. It originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. Deep house tracks generally have a tempo of between 120 and 125 beats per minute (BPM).

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Detached House
Detached House

Quick Answer. A detached house is a stand-alone residential structure that does not share outside walls with another house or building. Also called a separate house or a single-detached dwelling, a detached house is typically the most desirable single-family unit.

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Duplex/Triplex
Duplex/Triplex

In North America, a duplex house is a dwelling having apartments with separate entrances for two households. This includes two-story houses having a complete apartment on each floor and also side-by-side apartments on a single lot that share a common wall.

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Electro House
Electro House

Electro house is a form of house music. Electro house is characterized by a prominent bassline and/or kick drum and a tempo between 125 and 135 beats per minute. Its origins were influenced by electro, electroclash, electropop, synth-pop, and tech house.

Progressive House
Progressive House

Progressive house is a style (subgenre) of house music. The progressive house style emerged in the early 1990s. It initially developed in the United Kingdom as a natural progression of American and European house music of the late 1980s.

Semi-Detached House
Semi-Detached House

A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single family dwelling house built as one of a pair that share one common wall. Often, each house's layout is a mirror image of the other.

Tech House
Tech House

For $10.9 million, you can live on 7.6 acre’s of land that boasts a smart house, which has a system that runs not only all systems in its four-bedroom main house, but lights, heat and the like in its one-bedroom carriage house, as well. The system controls the home’s built-in audio/video, 14 flat-panel TVs — even the temperature in the estate’s massive wine cellar.

Townhouse
Townhouse

What is a townhouse? The origins of the word townhouse go back to early England, where the term referred to a dwelling a family (usually royalty) kept "in town" (meaning London) when their primary residence was in the country.

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Tropical House
Tropical House

Tropical house, also known as trop house, is a subgenre of deep house, with elements of dancehall and Balearic house. Artists of the genre are often featured at various summer festivals such as Tomorrowland.