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2. 21 Gingerbread House Decorating Ideas, From Coconut Snow to ...

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   Use them for paths, roof tiles, trim, and accents. ... to further define your house front designs. Add woodlike beams. Pretzel sticks can be used to create a rustic barn-style door or bring in a ...

3. Viga (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   This was used for the creation of portales or covered porches. An umbral or lintel was added for support of the viga along with vertical posts in these spaces. [12] The porch's roof treatment was the same as in the interior room, but the space provided was used for different purposes.

4. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

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   These houses borrowed their style cues from the 1950s Western-styled ranch houses, with board and batten siding, dovecotes, large eaves, and extensive porches. Notably, all houses in this tract were on 1/4-acre lots, and had their front garages turned sideways so that the garage doors were not dominating the front of the house.

5. Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Gingerbread trim on a Victorian-era house in Cape May, New Jersey Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim . [ 1 ] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [ 2 ] which was associated mostly ...

6. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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   Timber design or wood design is a subcategory of structural engineering that focuses on the engineering of wood structures. Timber is classified by tree species (e.g., southern pine, douglas fir, etc.) and its strength is graded using numerous coefficients that correspond to the number of knots, the moisture content, the temperature, the grain ...

7. Tudor Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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   Whether of older or recent origin, the appearance of solid beams and half-timbered exterior walls is only superficial. Artificially aged and blackened beams are constructed from light wood, bear no loads, and are attached to ceilings and walls purely for decoration, while artificial flames leap from wrought iron fire-dogs in an inglenook often ...