Friday, January 1, 2010
House Styles
Take the family boating or fishing on the lake. Sit on the front porch of your new vacation house and finally enjoy the book you bought six months ago or take in some fresh air, while sleeping in you hammock.
Shingle style house
A gambrel roof is gabled with two slopes on each side of a center ridge – a shallow slope above a steeply pitched slope; it is also known as a Dutch roof (E). In a hipped roof, which has no gables, four sloping surfaces form the roof (Figure F). Mansard (also called French) is a hipped roof variation with two slopes, in which the lower slope is steeper than the upper slope (F
Folk Victorian House
Neighbors are calling this Iowa home a Victorian, but it was built in 1928 -- Too late for the Victorian era! The interior has lovely woodwork, an open stairway, and other nice details.
Victorian house
The Arthur Stiles House, built in 1916 on Main Street in South Windsor, is an example of the American Foursquare style of house. Popular throughout America from the 1890s to the 1930s, these economical cubes with hipped roofs were a reaction to the more complicated and expensive Victorian house styles. This Foursquare was constructed for Mary Holman,
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The old house wanted to fall down but Brooks Banker wouldn't let it. "From the moment I saw this house, I knew it had to be mine," he says of the simple clapboard cottage in Garrison, New York, some 60 miles north of Manhattan. And neither the squirrels running amok in the attic nor the powder post beetles making mulch of the centuries-old oak beams could convince him otherwise.
different house
We recently completed an ‘Interactive Roof Designer’ Flash piece for Trimline Building Products. The objective was to create an area where prospective clients could customize the look of a house, and apply different colors from Trimline’s Distinction Tile and Distinction Slate composite roofing product lines. The final piece allowed for some interesting looking houses – here’s a break down of the process for each ste.
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Craftsman houses are so named for their emphasis on handcrafted features—roof beams that pierce the exterior and exaggerated eave overhangs. Most of you know the look so well that when we asked "What's your favorite house style?" you rushed online to vote for it over any other style. No doubt you were thinking of that tree-house feeling of low-pitched gables, the sturdy look of exposed rafters, and the woodsy warmth of cedar shakes.
Shingle Style
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a Neo-eclectic house
During the late 1960s, a rebellion against modernism and a longing for more traditional styles influenced the design of modest tract housing in North America. Builders began to borrow freely from a variety of historic traditions, offering Neo-eclectic houses that were "customized" using a mixture of features selected from construction catalogs. These homes are sometimes called Postmodern because they borrow from a variety of styles without consideration for continuity or context. However, Neo-eclectic homes are not usually experimental and do not reflect the artistic vision you would find in a truly original, architect-designed postmodern home.Critics use the term McMansion to describe a Neo-eclectic home that is oversized and pretentious.
Classical House
During the founding of the United States, many people felt that ancient Greece expressed the ideals of democracy. Architecture reflected classical ideals of order and symmetry.
queen-anne-style
New home developers are noticing an increase in demand for period architectural details that hearken to a historical style. Homeowners are requesting these homes in reaction to the run of the mill models that tend to look like McMansions.
to American House
Now in paperback, this authoritative book on house styles explains the unique characteristics that make a house colonial or craftsman, Modern or Deco, and any of the other approximately twenty styles of domestic architecture common in the United States. At a time of near obsessive attention to home design and renovation, this compact, easily accessible guide—the only book of its kind with all-color photography—makes the identification of house styles a breeze. Multiple examples of each house style are provided—the book includes 350 houses from more than forty states—so the reader can see region-specific variations.Complementing the beautiful color photographs is a selection of line drawings highlighting each style’s key attributes.
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