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Housing Matters

Housing Matters. styles of homes. Saltbox. A house that has four rooms, one to two stories high, a gable roof and steep front slope and a shallow rear slope. . Cape Cod. A New England style house usually one to one and a half story high with a steep pitched roof and a large central chimney. .

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Housing Matters

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  1. HousingMatters

  2. styles of homes

  3. Saltbox • A house that has four rooms, one to two stories high, a gable roof and steep front slope and a shallow rear slope.

  4. Cape Cod • A New England style house usually one to one and a half story high with a steep pitched roof and a large central chimney.

  5. Ranch • A one story home with a long, low roof in an asymmetrical shape design.

  6. Bungalow • A small one story home usually built with stone, big porches and a low pitched roof.

  7. Federal • A Georgian house with additives such as Greek columns and a portico and often includes pediments over doors and windows.

  8. Italianate • Characterized by a wide overhang, low pitched roof with ornamental brackets, arched tall, thin windows.

  9. Victorian • A housing style named after Queen Victoria. Has high porches, steep gable roof, tall windows and towers.

  10. Tudor • A heavy looking English style home. Usually characterized by stone and brick construction ,stucco and timber cross gables.

  11. ROOF TYPES

  12. Gable • A vertical triangular portion of the wall from the level of the eave to the ridge of the roof.

  13. Mansard • A roof having two slopes on all four sides with the lower slope being steeper than the other.

  14. Hip • A two pitched roof with four unequal sloping sides.

  15. Shed • One pitched roof that usually has one slopping plane and is supported by walls; the slop is usually off the backside or out of another roof.

  16. Gambrel • A barn roof where each side has two slopes a steeper lower slope and a flatter upper one.

  17. Saltbox • A short steep roof that has a steep front and a shallow rear slope.

  18. Flat • A roof with flat wide overhangs and no build up. Economical and easy to build.

  19. Types of windows

  20. Bow • A series of adjoining window units, installed on a radius.

  21. Bay • A window with two flanker units and a center sash may be an arc or a polygon.

  22. Awning • Single cash windows that tilt outward and up and are hinged at the top and swing up.

  23. Hopper • Windows that are hinged from the bottom of the window and open inward from the top.

  24. Picture • A large window with a single pane

  25. Casement • Windows hinged on the side and swing out like a door.

  26. Horizontal Sliding • A window that slides back and forth.

  27. Combination • Windows that can be mulled together, side by side, or top to bottom.

  28. Double Hung • Window that have lower sashes supported by cords and weights.

  29. Transom • Small hinged windows found near the ceiling above the doors or other windows.

  30. Sliding • A door that opens by sliding instead of swinging.

  31. Flush • Smooth, paneled door, having plywood over light timber frame, the hollow parts of which is filled with a cardboard core material.

  32. Panel • Doors built in a frame with large, wider boards used to fill the space between two stiles, rails and mullions.

  33. French • A door that has multiple windows set into it.

  34. Bi-Fold • A door unit that has two to four sections folding in pairs.

  35. Accordion • An interior door that opens by folding back into sections.

  36. Dutch • An exterior door divided in two horizontally; either half can be closed or opened independently.

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