Thursday, February 5, 2015

Roof Styles


Today in Interior Design we learned about roofing styles. There are 6 different styles we learned of: Shed, Gable, Gambrel, Saltbox, Hipped, and Mansard roofs.

Shed Roof
A simple one slope roof; also called a lean-to roof.

Gable Roof
A roof with two sloping sides, forming a triangle at one or both ends.

Gambrel Roof
A roof with two angles of slope on each of two sides, the lower slope steeper than the upper slope.

Saltbox Roof
A variation of the gable roof, originally created when a low lean-to addition was built onto the back of a house.

 
Hipped Roof
All four of sides of this roof slope inward to meet at a peak, as here, or a ridge.

Mansard Roof
All four sides of this roof have two slops, the lower four steeper than the upper four.

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