Sentences with gambrel
gam·brel
G g - When you create this combination of shed roofs and gambrel roofs you get into a situation where the roofs join in a very complicated manner.
- This mostly stone two-story house has a Dutch gambrel hipped roof.
- Besides its unique appearance a gambrel roof also serves to maximize the usable floor space in the attic.
- Between the 1760's and 1770's the gambrel roofs fell out of favor and were converted into a second story and a gable roof with or without dormers.
- Though homes with gambrel roofs are popularly called Dutch Colonial, there is debate over the origins of the roof style.
- ‘I grew up in a home like this,’ she reminisced as she drove by a brick house with a gambrel rooftop.
- This one has a gambrel roof, wide shed roof dormers, and a shed roof over the porch.
- This barn has a gambrel roof, that is its roof has a central ridge at the top, and the upper-level area is expanded by two additional ridges, one on either side of the central ridge.
- His five-bay building, with its glazed header Flemish bond brick facade had a gambrel roof typical of local vernacular architecture.
- My husband and I are building a workshop and we want a gambrel roof to house various woodworking and craft projects.
- Only in later periods, when Queen Anne was superseded by Colonial Revival and Colonial Imitation, did gambrel roofs become synonymous with Dutch architecture.
- If a gambrel roof home had a third floor, it was used for bedrooms and storage.
- The brick and stone courthouse with gambrel roofs, built in 1903, has some venerable old jacaranda trees for shade.
- A glance upward through the ceiling area reveals the huge cross timbers, and the complex joinery of the gambrel roof system.
- Please help us celebrate the grace of timber frames, the tactile shapeliness of hand-hewn logs, and the serene experience of soft beams of light filtering through the high ceiling of a gambrel loft.
- Michigan is known for its large barns built in the late 1800s, with gambrel roofs featuring lower, steeper slopes an upper, flatter ones on each side, he explains.
- For example, even the adoption of a new gambrel roof system with stud walls and a truss roof did not wholly eliminate the old heavy timber mortise-and-tenon construction system.
- Others have steep gambrel roofs or hipped roofs, with or without porches.