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Here, our very best sunroom design ideas to consider for maximizing indoor-outdoor living. This sunny spot will become your favorite room in the house. Here, our very best sunroom design ideas to ...
A Vermont or witch window. In American vernacular architecture, a witch window (also known as a Vermont window, among other names) is a window (usually a double-hung sash window, occasionally a single-sided casement window) placed in the gable-end wall of a house [1] and rotated approximately 1/8 of a turn (45 degrees) from the vertical, leaving it diagonal, with its long edge parallel to the ...
Hang Artwork. While these light gray, semi-transparent Roman shades emphasize the accent colors of green, black, and yellow in this kitchen window, it's the eye-catching artwork that steals the show.
Sunroom and solarium have the same denotation: solarium is Latin for "place of sun[light]". Solaria of various forms have been erected throughout European history. Currently, the sunroom or solarium is popular in Europe, Canada, [2] the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Sunrooms may feature passive solar building design to heat and ...
[2] [3] In a strawbale house, a truth window is often used to show the walls are actually made from straw bales. A small section of a wall is left unplastered on the interior, and a frame is used to create a window which shows only straw, which makes up the inside of the wall. [4] Many designs exist for truth windows.
They slide on rails mounted on a solid wall, and when open partly or fully overlap the wall. They are used for smaller windows in opaque walls; this is common in chashitsu (see image). [83] [84] Small windows and katabiki mounting were used in minka until the mid-Edo period, but were then replaced by larger openings with sliding panels. [82]
Microsoft Windows 1.0 displayed windows using a tiling window manager.In Windows 2.0, it was replaced with a stacking window manager, which allowed windows to overlap.. Microsoft kept the stacking window manager up through Windows XP, which presented severe limitations to its ability to display 3D-accelerated content inside normal wi
Gothic rib vault ceiling of the Saint-Séverin church in Paris Interior elevation view of a Gothic cathedral, with rib-vaulted roof highlighted. In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.