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  2. 28 Porch Step Ideas to Dress Up Your House This Fall - AOL

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    Your front steps can transform the whole look of a home. Here our best front porch step ideas for small and wide steps alike with pictures of modern and traditional designs. 28 Porch Step Ideas to ...

  3. Stoop (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Stoop, "a small porch", comes from Dutch stoep [1] (meaning: step/sidewalk, pronounced the same as English "stoop"); the word is now in general use in the Northeastern United States and is probably [original research?] spreading.

  4. Genkan - Wikipedia

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    A secondary function is a place for brief visits without being invited across the genkan step into the house proper. [2] For example, where a pizza delivery driver in an English-speaking country would normally stand on the porch and conduct business through the open front door, in Japan a food delivery would traditionally have taken place ...

  5. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    An overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls, usually at the corners, of medieval fortifications or churches. Basement Usually the lowest, subordinate storey of building, generally either entirely or partially below ground level; the lowest part of classical elevation, below the piano nobile. Basilica

  6. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    It is rapidly erected. A moderately sized timber-frame home can be erected within 2 to 3 days. It is well suited to prefabrication, modular construction, and mass-production. Timbers can be pre-fit within bents or wall-sections and aligned with a jig in a shop, without the need for a machine or hand-cut production line. This allows faster ...

  7. Mortar joint - Wikipedia

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    To remove the mortar, contractors often aggressively clean the walls with pressurized water or acid solutions, which can open up additional voids and increase the possibility of water penetration. Flush joint This joint is best used when the wall is intended to be plastered or joints are to be hidden under paint.

  8. Ha-ha - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of a ha-ha (top) and a regular wall (bottom). Both walls prevent access, but one does not block the view looking outward. A ha-ha (French: hâ-hâ [a a] ⓘ or saut de loup [so də lu] ⓘ), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving ...

  9. Spirit screen - Wikipedia

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    A simple spirit screen in Tian Hou Gong (temple of Mazu) in Quanzhou. A spirit screen, also called a spirit wall, screen wall, yingbi, or zhaobi, is used to shield an entrance gate in traditional Chinese architecture. Spirit screens can be positioned either on the outside or the inside of the gate they are protecting.