The style is usually called "Craftsman", but is also sometimes called "cottage" or "bungalow" (especially for smaller houses). It's my favorite style, and I've been looking forward to this for a while now.
The craftsman celebrates the structure of the house and is characterized by a fairly low-pitched gabled roof (occasionally hipped), with wide unenclosed eave openings. The roof rafters are often exposed, as they are below - you can see them on the front edge of the front porch and over the windows. There are often decorative beams or braces under the gables. There are always front porches (full or partial width) with the roof normally supported by square columns. The columns or column bases frequently (but not always) continue to ground level, without a break at the level of the porch floor. The siding is usually wood (shakes, as in the house below), but clapboard siding and stucco are occasionally seen as well. The windows are often fairly narrow, paned windows - sometimes even leaded glass.
The house below is a nice example. Note the shake siding, the low-pitched side-gable roof, the exposed rafters on the porch and under the eaves, the decorative braces on the front porch. It aslo has narrow, paned windows. The exception here is that the columns that support the front porch don't continue all the way to ground level.
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