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The eclectic style is usually exemplified by a set of different elements found in numerous other styles. These are a handful of different aspects which are taken from different sources and brought together. As a result, when it comes to copying this style, it is not easy to do so.

Art Deco  is a visual arts style that first made its appearance in France following World War I and then spread internationally between the 1920sand 1940s. After World War II, it grew less and less popular. Art Deco or Deco is a style that brings together standard craft motifs and marries them with a Machine Age look and use of materials. The style is often recognized by vibrant colors, bold geometry and lavish ornamentation.

A Cape Cod cottage is a housing style that first originated in New England back in the 17th century. This type of housing style is usually identified with the broad frame building, steep pitched roofs with end gables, larger chimneys as well as very little use of ornaments. Traditional Cape Cod house styles are quite simple, consisting of symmetrically designed central front doors, which are encompassed by a couple of multi- paned windows on either side.  The houses were designed to withstand the stormy weather of the coast of Massachusetts, and most designs still draw from their colonial counterparts.

Craftsman style of house construction was a favorite design in the early twentieth century and is not totally lost even after passage of a century. Some old-style-eccentrics still like to live in houses reflecting that era and either acquire those houses or have similar ones built. One can still find these in cities.