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2. 28 Porch Step Ideas to Dress Up Your House This Fall - AOL

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   Your front steps can transform the whole look of a home. Here our best front porch step ideas for small and wide steps alike with pictures of modern and traditional designs. 28 Porch Step Ideas to ...

3. Stoop (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Traditionally, in North American cities, the stoop served an important function as a spot for brief, incidental social encounters. Homemakers, children, and other household members would sit on the stoop outside their home to relax, and greet neighbors passing by.

4. William and Mary style - Wikipedia

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   In Britain, case furniture [b] in the William and Mary style tended to feature simple flat surfaces but exquisitely carved trim. [1] Provincial furniture-makers in Britain moved away from the woven cane seat, and developed the leather-covered wooden seat as a vernacular design. [3] Split spindles also came into use, first rurally and then in ...

5. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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   This house was modeled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, as exhibited in the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570). Colonial architect William Buckland designed this house in 1774 and the resulting house is a very skillful adaptation of the Villa Pisani for the warmer climate of the Chesapeake Bay region.

6. Colonial House (Style Spotlight)

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   Read on to learn about the elements of Colonial-style architecture, both in historic homes and today's interpretations. %Gallery-160735% More on AOL Real Estate :

7. French colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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   Exterior stairs were another common element; the stairs would often climb up to a distinctive, full-length veranda or "gallery", on a home's façade. The roof over the veranda was normally part of the overall roof. French Colonial roofs were either a steep hipped roof, with a dormer or dormers, or a side-gabled roof.