Details from Spain, Italy, and other Mediterranean countries combine with North American ideas to create contemporary Mediterranean or Neo-mediterranean homes.
Spanish and Italian details mingle with contemporary styling in Neo-mediterranean style homes.
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Neo-mediterranean is a
Neoeclectic house style that incoporates a fanciful mix of details suggested by the architecture of Spain, Italy, and Greece, Morocco, and the Spanish Colonies. Realtors often call Neo-mediterrean houses
Mediterranean or
Spanish.
Neo-mediterranean houses have many of these features:
- Low-pitched roof
- Red roof tiles
- Stucco siding
- Arches above doors, windows, or porches
- Heavy carved wooden doors
A Neo-mediterranean home may resemble the much earlier
Spanish Revival style. However, Neo-mediterranean homes are not careful recreations of Spanish Colonial architecture. If you remove the romantic decorative details, a Neo-mediterranean home is more likely to resemble a no-nonsense, all-American
Ranch or
Raised Ranch.
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