Sentences with phrase «gabled windows»

Architects began to use design elements from the American Revolution War - era, like pedimented or gabled windows, pronounced front porch and entrances, pilasters and columns, front doors with fan lights or side lights, and Palladian windows, and adapted them onto residences, banks, libraries, churches and schools.

«American Gothic» depicts a farmer and his spinster daughter posing before their house, whose gabled window and tracery, in the American gothic style, inspired the painting's title.

You can see here we may be changing the pointed gable window to a flatter one and still need to work through the exact materials and details.

Not exact matches

The previous summer I had taken a course in creative writing; now I was on rooftop gables, taping up windows, and scraping away peeling paint.

I ordered the hot chocolate with their pistachio milk and sipped it in the corner window while reading Anne of Green Gables — I don't think I've ever been more relaxed.

The roof of the shoppe has so many details alone; a peaked gable, flower - accented windows, shingles, and even a glittery plume of smoke!

Have your Toyota's windows tinted at West Kendall Toyota in Miami, FL — serving Coral Gables, Doral, Hialeah, Hollywood, Homestead, The Hammocks, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Kendall, & West Kendall — to prevent fading from UV rays and to maintain security inside your vehicle.

He no sooner saw the woman than he saw the aftermath of her — his marriage proposal and her acceptance, the home they would set up together, the drawn rich silk curtains leaking purple light, the bed sheets billowing like clouds, the wisp of aromatic smoke winding from the chimney — only for every wrack of it — its lattice of crimson roof tiles, its gables and dormer windows, his happiness, his future — to come crashing down on him in the moment of her walking past.

They feature wrap - around porches, towers, turrets and multiple gable and dormer windows.

1908: Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery «Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies» eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well - conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the why and wherefores thereof.»

The golden stained wood exterior is topped with a rather cute, green gable roof, and a faux window to let daylight in and give it that cozy look and feel.

The most consistent Colonial Revival elements found in these buildings are building symmetry; hipped roofs that often intersected one another; the use of a single, decorative fan or Palladian windows located high - up in the gabled or pedimented (triangular end) of the roof; double - hung windows with decorative features like thick concrete sills or curved, segmental arches overhead; thin columns or pilasters with simple capitals (tops); pronounced front porches.

The high, one - story building has tall arched windows, an arched doorway, and a circular window in a protruding gable, giving it the look of a church.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park Studio developed this style with open, airy plans, low - pitched hip or gable roofs, horizontal brick walls, exposed rafter ends, broad overhanging eaves and grouped wood windows.

In the early 17th century Dutch Republic, Hendrick de Keyser played an important role in developing the Amsterdam Renaissance style, which has local characteristics including the prevalence of tall narrow town - houses, the «trapgevel» or Dutch gable and the employment of decorative triangular pediments over doors and windows in which the apex rises much more steeply than in most other Renaissance architecture, but in keeping with the profile of the gable.

[1] The exterior architecture features steeply pitched gables, prominent chimneys, casement windows, and an elaborate Tudor arch door surround.

The Victorian style building of two storeys has a well detailed exterior, with ground floor window arch keystones, a hip and gable roof and is a solid construction of sandstone.

Once you come upon The Cedar Gables Inn in Old Town Napa, you will be presented with an impressive structure built with coastal redwood and adorned with wooden shingles that climb the turrets and gabled roof punctuated by leaded glass windows and colorful mosaic inlays.

At the top of a crafted spiral staircase is a king size bed with gabled loft windows overlooking the beautiful view.

Located in the northwest corner of the Inn, the Gable Bedroom has a cozy sitting area with a fireplace and windows seats that boast gorgeous views of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Spacious interiors in the 70 guest rooms, 15 suites and 29 villas are framed by delicate references to Malay architecture, which can be seen in the intricately - designed features, large windows and gabled roofs.

Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975) Greek Revival House with Half - Lunette Window in Full - Façade Gable, Cherry Valley, New York, November 1931, printed later.

In the 1970s his ironic exploration of the suburban dream, as expressed in the primness of the English home, it's immaculate lawns and borders, trophy window boxes and characteristic house gables, was followed by the exuberance of his gymnasts and swimmers in bronze (notably in his Ocean Gate series).

The windows are in carved pointed arches and the main entrance on the Queen Street front is surrounded by a large gabled arch.

«Peter's house is a good example since it had a blank gable wall to the south, and windows to east, west and north, so the net solar energy balance is not so favourable for a kWh per square metre calculation,» Alan Clarke says.

(clockwise from top left) installation of 150 mm of PIR insulation to the original ground floor; solar thermal panels on the upgraded roof supply domestic hot water for the renovated cottage; installation of the Plustherm graphite EPS external insulation system to the gable wall; Green Building Store Ultra tripleglazed timber windows set into the external insulation layer to prevent thermal bridging; the Ultra windows in place prior to the installation of the external insulation.

The attic had windows at the gable ends but the attic was unfinished.

The two storey part of the house, which has decorative timber gables and attractive astragal windows, has three bedrooms, sitting room, dining room, a bathroom and a sunroom.

I had always imagined a large window at the gable end with its big red handle as the only legal way to satisfy the size requirements for egress (thinking park model standards here).

Homes of the 1880s and 1890s often had irregular rooflines with several gables, asymmetrical arrangements of windows and doors, and complicated floor plans that required many hallways and stairways.

Ornate wooden detailing is generously applied as gable, window, and door trim.

This modest design is anything but ordinary with eye - catching details, including a mixed exterior of siding, shakes and stone, arched upper windows, and decorative gable brackets.

Built in 1999, the home features dormer windows and a gabled roof.

Still lots of work to do, (landscaping, square columns on the porch, shakes on the gables, shutters on the windows, not to mention the front door is still unsealed / stained / painted and there's a bunch of old paint that needs to be removed from the front of the steps.

I told him I wanted the windows to sit up a little higher (away from the sunroom and bottom edge of the roof) and that I wanted to new roofs to be gabled (not shed - style).

I'm dreaming of a tree lined family neighborhood street and a new charming home with leaded glass doors that can open without scraping the floor, wide baseboard moldings, gables and front porches, reasonably sized rooms with sweeping views of open space, pocket doors, restored vintage hardware, solid walls, wood and stone floors, large kitchen with vintage details and modern conveniences, working bathrooms with old fashioned charm, real wood window trim, iron gates, solid staircases and railings, beautiful windows that open and close without a hammer or screwdriver... old house details and exceptional quality, new house energy efficiency and condition.

If you decide to have a bespoke - designed conservatory or glass extension, you could replicate features from your house — the arched windows, or a gabled roof, for example — to link the two structures.

So on the water side, he created a headturning look with a sharply symmetrical facade centered on a steep gable roof that houses the double - height clerestory bay window.