hether you're buying or unfinished or have family room,
selling, reading real laundry, and perhaps a garage
estate ads can be located there.
confusing. Here are explanations
of more style terms used in real "Contemporary" style
estate ads.
These vary greatly, but none
"Split Foyer" style looks as if it could have been
built prior to 1900. Some are
A home entered by a foyer with a almost entirely of glass. Some
half flight of stairs up to the are almost entirely under ground.
upper level (where the living Roofs can be gable (slants down
spaces and one or more bedrooms on each side of a ridge line
are usually located) and a half creating triangles of space at
flight of stairs to the lower each end), shed (slants in one
level (typically housing the direction only from high on one
family room and additional side to low on the other), flat,
bedrooms). or sod (grass covered) for that
matter. Often several roof styles
"Tri-Level" style are incorporated in one home.
Energy saving or indoor-outdoor
A home with three levels. It is connectedness tend to be
typically entered on the middle designing motives. Simplicity,
level and has half flights of straight lines, and open spaces
stairs to the highest and lowest are hallmarks. Decks, patios, and
levels. The living room, dining terraces are frequently featured
room, and kitchen are usually on and are often constructed of the
the middle level. The bedrooms same materials used indoors.
are usually on the highest level.
The lowest level may be "Victorian" style
where porch posts reach the
This style is based on houses ceiling, at stair landings, and
built during Queen Victoria's so on. Modern builders usually
reign and for a while afterwards. pare this style down because of
They are usually at least two the expense, but even the most
stories tall and maybe more. They recently built examples can be
are embellished with a variety of rather fanciful.
things including porches,
turrets, towers with conical Summary
roofs, pediments with fanciful
shapes over doors and windows, When looking at homes, you'll
windows to the floor with perhaps find particular styles appeal to
only one sheet of glass per sash. you. Once you identify the
And do think "gingerbread" or styles, you can narrow your
wood fashioned into intricate search for the perfect home.
shapes for gable ends, places
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