The dispute about the Arbanassi house development is not less significant than that about the name and origin of the village. It has developed according to the social and economical features of the village and has formed its unique outlook completely on its own, without any replica in other parts in Bulgaria. The opinions of the Arbanassi house explorers respond to the both points of view of the origin of the village. The reasons that this is totally Bulgarian house prevail. The retained houses prove clearly that the oldest ones (stone) are similar to the Turnovo .
Boyar house. Two of these are retained - Hadji Pop Panayot's and chorbadji Georgi's. Built entirely of stone they are like small fortresses with inner staircases. For protection from the outside they have solid stone sentry box-gates and for the night guard - bays (firidi). The windows are small with iron grids. The second type is a big house with thick stone foundations, the second floor is frame-built, plastered with lime.
These houses are without balconies and bow-windows. The third type, the latest, appears in XVIII c. These houses have open verandah without windows covered with wooden lids witch open towards the garden. Modest and strict on its exterior outlook, without balconies and veranda, with grids on the windows and thickly covered gates, the Arbanassi house strikes with its wealth and luxury of its interior structure. The basement is built of stones, with vault entrances leading to big stables, cellars, and hiding places. Here is also the living place of the guard and the servants. Two staircases lead to the second floor - main and usual. The drawing-room, the summer and winter bed-rooms, the room for the lying-in woman, the kitchen, the oven (fonrio), the bathroom and the cellar are situated on the second floor. The rooms are situated from the both sides of one hallway (fhorismo). What attracts even today in the Arbanassi house is its inner decoration - the ceiling wood-carving, doors, windows, cabinets, plaster decorations of ceilings, jamal, friezes. All this is proof of the artful skill of the builder. In the preserved houses nowadays there is no special difference in their location. It is in the riches and diversity of the decoration which is proof not only of the taste and skills but also of the financial resources of the owner.