As families grew more prosperous and added rooms, the case merged into the low-slung veranda-encircled house found in hot countries around the world.

In Russia, we had lived in a low-slung house that seemed to have been stretched out in all directions to accommodate four families.

Then one day, deer hunting, he came upon it: A low-slung house with huge windows, lost in the brush.

Tucked away in backstreets still partly lined with low-slung houses of another era, this place is a popular stop.

The entrance is dominated by a dramatic wood cantilevered carport, which leads to an impressive yet unpresumptuous low-slung house with cypress paneling and indigenous stone.

Mr. Gravano's wife lived separately, in a long, low-slung house near a schoolyard not far away.

Still in the planning stages is a group of low-slung houses to be built with wildflower-sod roofs to mimic the terrain.

For the most part, low-slung wooden houses sit unobtrusively on heavily landscaped property.

Beyond a garden of lank grass, the front windows of Mrs Flood's low-slung house were open.

His motorcade drew a few curious stares as it snaked through the low-slung houses, many of which hold families of 8 or 10 to a room.