Portico

Portico Utility and Features
A good portico design should (and will) make your home more welcoming. It provides shelter from the rain and other elements while you dig for your keys to unlock your front door.

Portico A roof, generally gabled, supported on columns, usually more elaborate than a porch.
Prefabricated A house whose substantial parts are made entirely or in sections away from the building site.

portico (portique, m.) A type of porch featuring columns and a pediment.
terrace (terrasse en terre-plein, f.) A relatively level (paved, wooden or planted) area adjoining a building.

Portico - A roof supported by columns; often used at an entry
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Quoin - A large, square stone set into the corner of a masonry building; distinguished from the adjoining walls by material, texture or projection ...

Portico - A portico (Latin) is a roofed area, open to the air on one or more sides, typically supported on one side by the facade of a building and on the remaining sides by columns or arches.

PORTICO: A roof supported by columns; often used at an entry to a building or home.
PORTLAND CEMENT: A hydraulic cement, extremely hard, formed by burning silica, lime, and alumina together and then grinding up the mixture.

Portico: A roof supported by columns, either part of a building or standing alone.
Powder Actuated Fasteners: A fastener which is set (usually into masonry or concrete) by a powder charge.

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Portico: A covered entryway attached to house, usually open on three sides and supported by posts or columns.
Post and beam construction: Wall construction consisting of posts rather than studs.

Portico
A covered entrance to a house, usually supported by decorative columns.
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A portico-style entry is a warm welcome to this detached three-car garage, styled to complement many of the neighborhood designs.

North Portico at the White House, Washington, DC
The North Portico of the White House faces Pennsylvania Avenue. If you take a tour of the White House, you will leave the Executive Mansion through this ...

A gabled portico with six tapered columns and a fanciful interpretation of a fanlight-a half-round cut-out in the gable with wrought-iron grillwork-gives presence to the entry of this newly built seaside cottage but keeps the mood informal.

Jim Rill (portico), designer liaison Taylor Wells and committee member Susan Hayes Long. Photos by sherry moeller ...

Reconstituted stone portico
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lobia, laubia or lobium, from which the word was directly adapted, was used in the sense of a cloister, gallery or covered place for walking attached to a house, as defined by Du Cange (Gloss. Med. et Inf. Lat., s.v. Lobia), porticos operta ad ...

Coffee Pot Column A column is a pillar, usually of round cross-section but sometimes square or octagonal, used to support the roof of a building, porch, or portico. Parts of a column are (bottom to top): base, shaft and capital.

If you want the brick built closer to your home, a portico is a convenient addition.

In Greek and Roman architecture, a long covered portico for exercise in bad weather.
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An arched atrium roof structure, using a semi-circle or hoop to cover a long narrow area, e.g., the portico extending from the front hotel entrance for arriving guests to unload under cover.
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- Use unique architectural details to enhance your home. A round stained-glass window, weather vane on a turret, portico painted in a rich colour or window boxes all offer lovely ways to bring interest to a home's exterior.

Outdoor spaces are critically important, and a home incorporating Tuscan style decorating must include a patio, loggia, or portico. Walls built of sandstone bricks frame today's home, where in ancient times they served as a defense.

Squared, simple and perfectly proportioned, tapered columns add Craftsman-style beauty to porches, porticoes and interiors ...

a bathroom or laundry Pediment A decorative gabled or curve-topped feature above a portico - often of timber fretwork Pergola An open trellis like frame attached to a building and / or supported by posts - used for climbing plants ...

To age the interior, Printy headed to his native Iowa, where he found most of the reclaimed flooring, beams, fixtures, doors, hardware, and cabinetry-as well as the pool's charming porticoed pump house-that give the place its timeworn beauty.

portico A monumental projecting porch with a roof supported by columns, often placed at the entrance of a building
post-and-beam construction Wall construction in which beams are supported by heavy posts rather than many smaller studs.

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