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A garret is a habitable attic, a living space at the top of a house or larger residential building, traditionally small with sloping ceilings. In the days before elevators this was the least prestigious position in a building, at the very top of the stairs.
The upper storey in these houses have two bedrooms, with sloping ceilings to their sides immediately beneath the roof, rather than having an attic space above. Prestige features, such as bay windows , may be more prominent in the end terraces; either fitted to the end houses alone, or used on both storeys rather than just the ground floor.
A habitable attic at the top of a larger building, generally with sloping walls, and with skylights or dormer windows. Gauged brickwork (also rubbed brickwork) Brickwork constructed of soft bricks rubbed to achieve a fine smooth finish with narrow joints between courses. Gazebo
Hip, hipped: A hipped roof is sloped in two pairs of directions (e.g. N–S and E–W) compared to the one pair of direction (e.g. N–S or E–W) for a gable roof. Cross hipped: The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes.
Attic bedroom in Skógar, Iceland The Poor Poet, by Carl Spitzweg, 1839 (Neue Pinakothek) Attic in Berlin, Germany. An attic (sometimes referred to as a loft) is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building. It is also known as a sky parlor [1] or a garret.
They occupy otherwise wasted attic space. If you have a ceiling that can be opened up, you can make practical design use of “dead” space through a vaulted ceiling. They’re a dramatic design ...
Looks aside, building homes with these high, vaulted ceilings helped move hot air upward, keeping rooms and gathering areas cooler and less stuffy. Not the most mysterious old home feature , but ...
A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.