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What is a garden house?

Garden houses were the exclusive residences of Shanghai's upper class in the 19th century and were built specifically for them.

Even now, it has not been eliminated, and its value is not low. So what kind of house is considered a garden house now?

Then follow us and take a look at what a garden house is.

What is a garden house?

To some extent, it is generally built somewhere between the suburbs and the main city.

Although it holds its banner high, the gap between it and the villa is still very big. Needless to say, Western-style villas, townhouses, and duplexes are single-family houses. The sky can be seen from above and the ground can be touched below, so he was

It is rightly called a garden house.

Characteristics of a garden house 1. "Garden" refers to a good landscape. Compared with traditional multi-storey houses, it has a lower floor area ratio, a higher greening rate, richer landscaping and higher specifications; "village" refers more to a European-style exterior.

The facades are different from the brick-concrete multi-storey buildings in some old communities in the city center in the 1990s and the beginning of this century. Garden house buildings are mostly in different styles such as European classical style, British country style, Spanish style, etc.

2. Compared with ordinary apartments, its environment is relatively quiet, and compared with villas, it is relatively lively. Moreover, the price is also very cheap and competitive compared with villas.

3. The most representative garden house in the narrow sense is the old house built before the liberation of Shanghai. To this day, the "garden house" in Shanghai dialect still refers to the garden house in the narrow sense.

Even when mentioning garden houses, some people will think of the small single-family houses in Shanghai.

The real "village" is not in China, but China's garden houses are steeped in Chinese culture and history.

4. Its household positioning: generally high-income families, including domestic high-income families, Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other countries, and foreigners.

5. It has some of the advantages of a villa, but it cannot be completely separated from the prosperity and convenience of the city. Therefore, to a certain extent, it is geographically located between the villa area and the main city.

The above is the relevant introduction about what a garden house is and the characteristics of a garden house. You can refer to it.