Wood frame
Square or rectangular shape
Four adjoining rooms - one room in each corner of the house
No interior halls
Small storage spaces at the rear
A sleeping area in the attic
Hipped or gabled roof ...
An upholstered wood frame that slips into the framework of a chair seat. It can easily be removed to change the covering.
Slipper chair
Any short-legged chair with its seat close to the floor.
Half-timber - The common form of medieval construction in which walls were made of a wood frame structure filled with wattle and daub.
Hall - Principal room or building in the castle complex.
The encampment would have consisted of tents made out of acacia wood frames covered over with mats and animal-skin canopies. In 1325 the city was conquered by Mansa Musa who incorporated it into the empire of Mali.
joist - one of a series of closely spaced, parallel beams that supports a floor or ceiling; typically 2x in wood frame construction by the late 19th century. (from Dictionary of Building Preservation)
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cotta and the introduction of cast iron work and tinwork allowed buildings in the Victorian era to have as much detail as the imagination, or pocketbook, could afford. (Tin: Details were stamped on tin work cornices and then attached to a wood frame ...
 See also: Frame, House, Architecture, Arches, Brick
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