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  2. Boone Hall - Wikipedia

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    The enclosed loggia features a low groin-vaulted ceiling of brick and cement stucco, herringbone-laid brick flooring, and centered on a round-arched fireplace surround with a mirrored inset above the mantel. Opposite the fireplace are three double door arched openings to the terrace.

  3. 50 Times Cheap Fixes Had A Major Impact On Home Life - AOL

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    After a year, we just decided to remove the old hearth (turned out it was solid cement with a brick exterior) and put in a mantle (FB market), paint, tile, and the whole aesthetic is changed Image ...

  4. Mrs. A. W. Gridley House - Wikipedia

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    Unlike many of Wright's other residential commissions of this scale which were built of brick or plastered cement block, the Gridley house is a framed wood structure with a lathed batten exterior covered with earth-toned tinted stucco, and exterior door, window frames and trim of light stained cedar. The house originally had a cedar shake roof ...

  5. Carpenter Gothic - Wikipedia

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    Aaron Ferrey House, Kent, Ohio, an example of Downing's Form III Grace Episcopal Church (Georgetown, Colorado) Springside in Poughkeepsie, New York Christ Church, Fort Meade, Florida Oak Hill Cottage, Mansfield, Ohio: Carpenter Gothic trim on a brick house in the manner of A.J. Davis's Rural Residences The Seth House in Albuquerque, New Mexico – Built in 1882

  6. Stucco - Wikipedia

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    Examples can be found in churches and palaces, where stucco is mostly used to provide a smooth, decorative transition from walls to ceiling, decorating and giving measure to ceiling surfaces. Stucco is an integral part of the art of belcomposto , the Baroque concept that integrates the three classic arts , architecture , sculpture , and painting .

  7. Soffit - Wikipedia

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    In this example the soffit material is 12 inches wide and made from center lanced U groove perforated sections of vinyl in a return fashion and fixed to the bottom chord of a truss roofing system extending beyond the exterior wall. A soffit is an exterior architectural feature, generally the horizontal, aloft underside of the roof edge. Its ...

  8. The house featured in "Home Alone" has found a buyer, seven months after it was put on the market and just in time for Christmas.. The 5-bedroom, 6-bathroom house located in Winnetka, Illinois was ...

  9. Wattle and daub - Wikipedia

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    Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important ...