Friday, February 6, 2015

Housing Characteristics

Today in Interior design we also learned about housing characteristics. We learned of 12 and here they are:

Bay Window
Projection from the side of a house into which one or windows are set.


Casement Window
A window that opens by swinging inward or outward like a door.

Clapboard
More commonly known as siding. Long narrow boards overlapped to cover the outside wall.

Dormer
The setting for a vertical window in the roof. most often found in upstairs bedrooms.

Eaves
the portion of the roof that projects beyond the wall.

Fanlight
A semicircular or arched window above a door.

Palladian window
A three part window featuring a large arched center and flanking rectangular sidelights.

 Pediment
A triangular crown used over doors, windows, or porches.

Portico
A large porch usually with a pedimented roof supported by classical columns or pillars.

Rafter
A roof beam sloping from the ridge to the wall. In most houses these are only visible from the attic.

Sidelights
Windows on either side of a door.

Turret
A small tower, often at the corner of a building.

Viola~ That's it! Thanks for reading!

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