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  2. These 50 House Colors Are All the Rage in 2024

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    The exterior of this Craftsman-style home, awash in something that resembles Farrow & Ball’s Lulworth Blue, will make any house the It house on the block, creating blue-sky energy no matter what ...

  3. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    The steep slope may be curved. An element of the Second Empire architectural style (Mansard style) in the U.S. Neo-Mansard, Faux Mansard, False Mansard, Fake Mansard: Common in the 1960s and 70s in the U.S., these roofs often lack the double slope of the Mansard roof and are often steeply sloped walls with a flat roof. Unlike the Second Empire ...

  4. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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    Section view through a house roof drawing showing names for parts of the structure. [clarification needed] (UK and Australia). Ctrs. means centers, a typical line to which carpenters layout framing. Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most detached houses in cold and temperate climates. [1]

  5. Dutch Colonial Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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    Dutch Colonial is a style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house. Modern versions built in the early 20th century are more accurately referred to as "Dutch Colonial Revival", a subtype of the Colonial Revival style.

  6. Architecture of Bermuda - Wikipedia

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    The archetypical Bermuda house is a low, squared building with a stepped, white roof and pastel-painted walls, both of which are made out of stone. Between roof and wall are a series of eaves painted a third colour, which is also used on the wooden shutters of relatively small windows.

  7. Australian residential architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Home in the Queenslander style. Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of historic homes) to more sophisticated styles borrowed from other countries, such as the California bungalow from the United States, the Georgian ...

  8. Saltbox house - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut. A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.

  9. Gable - Wikipedia

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    This arrangement is a crossed gable roof Gable in Finland Decorative gable roof at 176–178 St. John's Place between Sixth and Seventh Avenue in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is ...