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  2. Barndominium - Wikipedia

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    [1] [3] Some barndominiums double as both a residence and as a place of business. [2] A similar style is the shouse (workshop plus house). [4] The term barndominium was originally coined by Karl Nilsen, who was a real estate developer in Connecticut. Barndominium is derived from using a combination of the words barn and condominium. [5]

  3. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    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). Villa: a large house which one might retreat to in the country.

  4. Saltbox house - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut. A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.

  5. Free plan - Wikipedia

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    It also has a completely open free floor plan in the interior with sections divided by walls lower than ceiling height to distinguish rooms and areas, something that can be done in any fashion through the use of free plan. [4] Of Corbusier's architecture, the Villa Savoye demonstrates his five points in the most successful way, including free ...

  6. Casa Vicens - Wikipedia

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    The bathroom (6 m 2) has a grey terrazzo floor and tiled walls, alternating ochre tones with white and blue check, as well as a tile frieze with oil-painted flowers, unique in the house. The bathroom ceiling is beamed, with ceramic reliefs of ivy leaves. The toilet (1.4 m 2) is decorated with tiles showing wheels and stars. [122]

  7. Barn - Wikipedia

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    Painting from 1894 by Klavdy Lebedev titled the floor or the threshing floor (Гумно). Grange Barn, Coggeshall, England, originally part of the Cistercian monastery of Coggeshall. Dendrochronologically dated from 1237 to 1269, it was restored in the 1980s by the Coggeshall Grange Barn Trust, Braintree District Council and Essex County Council.

  8. Safe room - Wikipedia

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    Safe rooms may contain communications equipment, such as a cellular telephone, land-line telephone or an amateur radio transceiver, so that law enforcement authorities can be contacted.

  9. Guinness - Wikipedia

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    Guinness Draught, the standard draught beer sold in kegs (but exist also a texture-like version in widget cans and bottles): 4.1 to 4.3% alcohol by volume (ABV); the Extra Cold is served through a super cooler at 3.5 °C (38.3 °F). [54] Guinness Foreign Extra Stout: 7.5% ABV version sold in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, and the United ...