enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch-style_house

   The raised ranch is a two-story house in which a finished basement serves as an additional floor. It may be built into a slope to utilize the terrain or minimize its profile. For a house to be classified by realtors as a raised ranch, there must be a flight of steps to get to the main living floor – which distinguishes it from a split-level ...

3. What can you build on L.A.'s steep, narrow lots? How about ...

   www.aol.com/news/build-l-steep-narrow-lots...

   Storey and Holmes bought the 2,900-square-foot lot in 2017 for $92,000 and started to plan their home. The land was not just steep — a grade of 33% — but also long and narrow.

4. Marshall House (Schuylerville, New York) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_House...

   In its present configuration the Marshall House is a two-story, single-sloped-roof building, five bays long by three bays wide, oriented with its principal elevation facing east. The original form of the house was as constructed c. 1770 a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, heavy timbered post-and-beam, gambrel-roofed main block with a recessed, gable-roofed ...

5. House plan - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_plan

   They illustrate how the home relates to the lot's boundaries and surroundings. Site plans should outline location of utility services, setback requirements, easements, location of driveways and walkways, and sometimes even topographical data that specifies the slope of the terrain. A floor plan [2] is an overhead view of the completed house. On ...

6. Slope house - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope_house

   Slope house or Souterrain house is a house with soil or rock completely covering the bottom floor on one side and partly two of the walls on the bottom floor. The house has two entries depending on the ground level. The main reason for building a slope house is due to the landscape, for example the land where the house should be built is placed ...

7. List of house types - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_house_types

   Slope house: a house with soil or rock completely covering the bottom floor on one side and partly two of the walls on the bottom floor. The house has two entries depending on the ground level. 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 ...

8. Wheatland (James Buchanan House) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatland_(James_Buchanan...

   The house is made up of a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, "bilaterally symmetrical", central section, flanked by two, three-story wings set back from the main facade. [30] The roofs of both wings are flat and sloping towards the rear of the house; the northern wing also a "pent roof", a sloped, shingled roof between the first floor and second floor windows ...

9. Douglas House (Harbor Springs, Michigan) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_House_(Harbor...

   The Douglas House is located on a very steep slope overlooking the lake. It is a four-story, bright white, Modern structure with a flat roof clad with redwood. The overall form of the house is a large rectangle set on end. [3] The rear wall of the house, which faces the lake, makes extensive use of glass to provide maximum views.