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Architectural Features: Enhancing Your Home Design

Explore key architectural features like bay windows, casement windows, clapboard siding, dormer windows, and more to elevate your home style and functionality. Discover how elements such as eaves, façades, gable roofs, and Palladian windows can enhance your property. Learn about different roof styles like gambrel, hipped, and mansard roofs. From porticos to rafters, this guide covers classical architecture influences and traditional design elements for a stunning home exterior.

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Architectural Features: Enhancing Your Home Design

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  1. Architectural Features

  2. Bay WindowsTwo or more windows that protrude from the wall. Allows more natural light into the rooms.

  3. Casement WindowsOpen by swinging in or out like a door. Popular in Frank Lloyd Wright designs.

  4. ClapboardAlso known as siding. A series of overlapping boards.

  5. Dormer WindowsWindows that are set into the roofline.

  6. EavesThe portion of the roof that extends beyond the wall.

  7. FaçadeThe front of a building.

  8. Gable RoofThe triangular section of a wall that is at theroofline.

  9. Gambrel RoofA roof with two slopes.

  10. Hipped RoofA roof with slopes onfour sides.

  11. Mansard RoofA roof that has four sidesand is flat on top.

  12. Palladian WindowThree-part windows with an arched center.

  13. PedimentTriangular crown overdoors and windows.May be a split pediment –where the top has anopen design.

  14. PorticoPorch with columns or pillars on either side of the door.

  15. RaftersThe roof beams in a building. May be exposed or hidden.

  16. SidelightsWindows on either side of a door.

  17. TurretA small tower-like structure.

  18. Classical ArchitectureInspired by ancient Greekand Roman buildings.

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