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Inside, the building has exposed log walls, with an open ceiling that reveals roof rafters and Howe trusses. The floors are made of wood planks, and large ironstone fireplaces with fieldstone surrounds and brick fireboxes are located on the north and south walls.
The interior features include a four-centred stone door frame, an oak door frame, an open fireplace, large moulded oak ceiling beams and exposed rafters. A ground floor room has a seventeenth century plaster ceiling and an upper floor room has an open roof of timber with moulded arch braces and purlins. [4]
A hammer-beam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams – the hammer beams – are supported by curved braces from the wall, and hammer posts or arch-braces are built on top to support the rafters and typically a collar beam.
Closed/open distinction is used in two ways to describe truss roofs. Closed truss: A truss with a tie beam; or; Roof framing with a ceiling so the framing is not visible. Open truss: A truss with an interrupted tie beam or scissor truss which allow a vaulted ceiling area; or; Roof framing open to view, not hidden by a ceiling. [4]
It displays the low pitched gabled roof with wide open eaves, exposed rafters and ornamented braces characteristic of the American Craftsman style. Exterior wall finishing is alternating narrow and wide stained wood shingle. The house is at the rear of a 4.4-acre (1.8 ha) lot in the Maywood / Beckstrom Hill neighborhood in Bothell.
In architectural terms, a vaulted ceiling is a self-supporting arch above walls and beneath a roof. Different styles of vaults include barrel, groin, rib, and fan.
As of 1904, shortly after St. Matthew's was constructed, its roof was open-timbered with six principal rafters, fitted with tracing and curved braces, with the rafters exposed. The choir was finished in pressed brick and oak panelling , while the walls were finished in colour, with arched ceiling ribbed into panels.
“We’re already exposed through our electronics, automobiles, furniture … this is part of the big picture of exposure,” she adds. Liu says her advice is the same as it's been: “If you can ...