Housing characteristics

Bay window- A set of two or more windows that protrude out from the wall. The window is moved is moved away form the wall to provide more light and wider views.

     

Casement window- A window that opens by swinging inward or outward that much like a door.  Casement windows are usually vertical in shape but are often grouped in bands  









Clapboard- Also known as weatherboard or siding. Long, narrow board overlapped to cover the outer walls.  Used in colonial style frame houses.
  





Classical- Refers to the architecture and design ideas of ancient Rome and Greece.

   





Dormer- The setting for a vertical window in the roof.  Called a gable dormer if it has its own gable or a shed dormer if a flat roof. Most often found in upstairs bedrooms.








Eaves- That portion of the roof that projects beyond the wall.
   







Facade- The front or "face" of a building










Fanlight- A semicircular of ached window above a door

Palladian- A three part window featuring a large arched center and flanking rectangular sidelights







Portico- A large porch usually with a pedimented roof supported by classical columns or pillars.











Rafter- A roof bean sloping form the ridge to the wall.  In most houses, rafters are visible only form the attic.  In styles such as craftsman bungalows and some "rustic" contemplates, they are exposed.
  




                                         

Sidelights- Windows on either side of a door.








Turret- A small tower, often at the corner of building. Common in Queen Anne styles among others.  A turret is a smaller structure while a tower begins at ground level

Roof styles

Gable Roof- A roof with two sloping sides, forming a triangle at one or both ends. 

Gambrel Roof-  A roof with two angles of slope on each of two sides, the lower slope steeper than the upper slope. 

Hip Roof- All four sides of this roof slope inward to meet at a peak, as here, or a ridge.

Saltbox- A variation of the gable roof, originally created when a low lean-to addition was built onto back wall of a house.

Mansard- All four sides of this roof have two slopes, the lower four steeper than the upper four 

Shed Roof- A simple, one-slope roof; also called a lean-to roof.

Housing needs

Very few people will live in the same house all of there life. This week in interior design we've learned how to use olioboard, how to use our blogs, and the housing needs for the different ages of people. Houses are existential for human life, the psychical needs it provides are shelter, sleep, food preparation, storage, and safety. The psychological needs are the feeling of love and belonging somewhere, privacy, creativity, and identity. The life cycle of housing is the stages of life form infancy to old age. For instance when your child you live with your parents, when your turn 18 you move out to go to collage, when your finished with collage you move to maybe an apartment or your first home, and so on.                                          

Age 22
This will fit me when I am 22 because I wont have enough money to get a real house yet. Its kind of a place where all younger people live.

Age 33
This will fit me when I am 33 because I will need to move out of an apartment when I want to start my family. You cant really rise kids in an apartment


Age  42
You will need a bigger house to fit all of your family.  You should be able to move out of your starter house because you've saved enough money to buy a bigger house.


Age 75
Once your this old you move into an apartment again because you don't a big house anyone. All your kids have moved out and theirs less to maintain.



Now you can kind of see that most people do not live in the same house there entire life.