Ads
related to: soffit above kitchen cabinets diagramsmartholidayshopping.com has been visited by 100K+ users in the past month
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A simple cornice may be formed with a crown, as in crown moulding atop an interior wall or above kitchen cabinets or a bookcase. A projecting cornice on a building has the function of throwing rainwater free of its walls. In residential building practice, this function is handled by projecting gable ends, roof eaves, and gutters. However, house ...
To show you how it’s done, we’ve selected 15 stand-out above-the-kitchen-cabinet decor ideas that will instantly elevate your space. Display Your Cutting Boards
A soffit is an exterior architectural feature, generally the horizontal, aloft underside of the roof edge. Its archetypal form, sometimes incorporating or implying the projection of rafters or trusses over the exterior of supporting walls, is the underside of eaves (to connect a supporting wall to projecting edge(s) of the roof ).
The finished surface below the fascia and rafters is called the soffit or eave. In classical architecture, the fascia is the plain, wide band (or bands) that make up the architrave section of the entablature, directly above the columns. The guttae or drip edge was mounted on the fascia in the Doric order, below the triglyph
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Certainly in Australia, soffit is widely used by builders and architects to describe whatever is above, the underside of the roof, floor, ceiling, but not a false ceiling - the soffit is above it. I've never come across its use to describe the underside of eaves specifically. Norm Crothers NormCrothers 02:55, 31 May 2012 (UTC)