Trim - The finish materials to a building, such as moldings applied around openings (window trim, door trim) or at the floor and ceiling of rooms (baseboard, cornice, picture molding).
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The framing or edging of openings and other features on the facade of a building or indoors. Trim is usually a different color or material than the adjacent wall.
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Window trim or surround different on each story
Renaissance Revival
Fireplaces ...
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trim - the framing of features on a façade which may be of a different color, material, or design than the adjacent wall surface
turret - a little tower, set at an angle to the main wall; often at a corner and projecting above a building ...
The trim on this door is much lighter than earlier Georgian doors, the glazing is delicate, and the keystone illustrates a Baroque tendency found only in Niagara and a few other regions.
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FASCIA BOARD
Trim covering rafter ends at the end of a roof pitch.
FENCING
A barrier as of wooden or metal posts and rails used as a boundary.
Stop: A wood trim member nailed to the window frame to hold, position or separate window parts. The stop is often moulded into the jamb liners on sliding windows.
Casing The trim around a window or door.
Cedar Shingle A roofing material made of durable pinewood.
Cement Blocks Mass produced building blocks made from pouring concrete into a mold.
Casing - The trim bordering the inside or outside of a window or door, commonly referred to as "inside" or "outside" casing.
Stool An interior trim piece on a window which extends the sill & acts as a narrow shelf.
Stop A molding used to hold, position or separate window parts
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Decorative gable trim, corbels, and a variation of exterior finishes. This style actually is a combination of several other main styles like Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne.
The Stick style sought to bring a translation of the balloon framing used in houses in the era by alluding to them through plain trim boards, soffits, aprons and other decorative features, ...
Classical detailing--columns, pilasters, heavily molded wooden entablatures (horizontal trim under roofs and over doors), and pediments--defines the style in houses, churches, stores, and other public buildings.
Notice the center gable, steeply pitched with subtle vertical wood trim under the gable, just hinting at a return to historical stylistic trends with the advent of postmodernism in the 1970s.
9. St. Louis suburbs. c.1960s.
Wooden "gingerbread" trim in scrolled and rounded "fish-scale" patterns frequently graces gables and porches. Massive cut stone foundations are typical of period houses.
Identifying features include low-pitched gable or hip roof; front-facing triangular pediment; wide-band trim at cornice line of the roof; porticos, entry porches, or full-width porches supported by prominent square or rounded columns; ...
use of decorative "gingerbread" wood trim on veranda [treillage] or vergeboards along eaves. Much trim was mass produced by machine.
gothic or modified gothic with ell and front porch continued to be used in rural Canada into the 1890s.
brick molding A milled wood trim piece covering the gap between the window frame and masonry, which can be rectilinear, curved or composite-curved.
cap flashing A waterproof sheet that seals the tops of cornices and walls.
3. A narrow strip of fabric used to trim, finish, or reinforce articles of clothing.
4. Something that constrains or binds morally or legally: the bands of marriage and family.
5. A simple ungrooved ring, especially a wedding ring.
Fretwork - Decorative trim with a repeating pattern, typically found under eaves, in porches and within railings.
Gable - A triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof.
Absence of decorative exterior trim or ornamentation
Steeply pitched, gable roofs
Small roof overhangs
Capped with dormers
Center chimneys, often massive (a later version placed chimneys on the side)
Center doors
Purely decorative shutters ...
BARGEBOARD: a board trim that is usually carved and projects from the gable line of a roof, used to hide the ends of the horizontal roof timbers. (IMAGE) ...
spindlework - Lathed turned wood ornaments used in gable trim or porches and staircases
stickwork - Major framing timbers are placed on top of the exterior siding for structural or decorative purposes ...
Casing
Refers to the trim bordering the inside or outside of a window or door, commonly referred to as "inside" or "outside" casing.
Difficult to trim to a workable shape, they were used manly in prehistoric times in the construction of longbarrows and stone circles - Stonehenge is the most notable example.
CHAIR RAIL A chair rail is decorative wooden trim attached horizontally at the approximate height of the back of a straight chair.
Fancy detail was not really important because the settlers did not have time to add ornamental trim. Fascia and cornices were used as building materials for there was only a small over hang to the roof.
drip molding - (eared) a projecting molding over doors, window, and archways to direct rain away from the opening. The "eared"extensions at the head casing trim approximate stone details found in Greek and Roman Classical architecture. (p.
In a brick house, the quoins usually consist of granite blocks, but may also be formed from bricks and painted in the trim color. Quoins on wooden houses were made from short lengths of plank, to resemble stone quoins.
The first Prairie houses were usually plaster with wood trim or sided with horizontal board and batten. Later Prairie homes used concrete block. Prairie homes can have many shapes: Square, L-shaped, T-shaped, Y-shaped, and even pinwheel-shaped.
Barge Board, verge - Slopping roof trim of wood, plastics or metals fixed in pairs along the edge of a gable to cover the roof timbers and protect them from rain and/or ...
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