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  2. Give Your Walls the Attention They Deserve with These Unique ...

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    In the master bedroom of her Locust Valley manse, designer Meg Braff covered the angled walls in a peacock Schumacher covering. The chair fabric is by Pierre Frey . Annie Schlechter

  3. House plan - Wikipedia

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    Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

  4. Wimpey no-fines house - Wikipedia

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    2 bedroom end terrace (as found in St. Helens Merseyside) 3-bedroom end or mid-terrace; 4-bedroom mid-terrace with integral ginnel (or ginnels on 6 and 8 house terraces) for rear access; Many examples are accompanied by a single-storey brick-built outbuilding, either in semi-detached arrangement set behind the house, or linking one house to the ...

  5. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).

  6. Floor plan - Wikipedia

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    Floor plans use standard symbols to indicate features such as doors. This symbol shows the location of the door in a wall and which way the door opens. A floor plan is not a top view or bird's-eye view; it is a measured drawing to scale of the layout of a floor in a building.

  7. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

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    Smaller ranch-style house in West Jordan, Utah, with brick exterior and side drop gable roof. Ranch (also known as American ranch, California ranch, rambler, or rancher) is a domestic architectural style that originated in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout.

  8. Open plan - Wikipedia

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    The removal of interior walls increases views and allows sunlight from windows in the exterior walls to spread throughout the house. In the late 2010s, the open plan design became less common. Complaints about open plan designs include that they make it more difficult for different people to engage in different activities and make it difficult ...

  9. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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    A sunspace with a masonry thermal wall will need approximately 0.3 ft 2 of thermal mass wall surface per ft 2 of floor area being heated (0.3 m 2 per m 2 of floor area), depending on climate. Wall thicknesses should be similar to a thermal storage wall. If a water wall is used between the sunspace and living space, about 0.20 ft 2 of thermal ...