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Inside, the recessed-paneled wooden doors open into separate cloakrooms 10 feet (3.3 m) square. Both have horizontal tongue-and-groove wainscoting and plaster upper walls. The ceilings, like all in the school, are tongue-and-groove random-width plank. The boys' cloakroom has the cellar door, and a rope to ring the bell. [1]
A painted ceiling is a ceiling covered with an artistic mural or painting. They are usually decorated with fresco painting, mosaic tiles and other surface treatments. While hard to execute (at least in situ) a decorated ceiling has the advantage that it is largely protected from damage by fingers and dust.
Scottish renaissance painted ceilings are decorated ceilings in Scottish houses and castles built between 1540 and 1640. This is a distinctive national style, though there is common ground with similar work elsewhere, especially in France , Spain and Scandinavia . [ 1 ]
Salpiglossis sinuata, the painted tongue, [2] scalloped tube tongue, velvet trumpet flower, palito amargo ( Spanish : bitter little stick - from the extreme bitterness of its leaves [3]) or panza de burro ( Spanish : donkey's paunch), is a flowering plant belonging to the subfamily Cestroideae of the nightshade family Solanaceae, native to ...
Tongue and groove joints allow two flat pieces to be joined strongly together to make a single flat surface. Before plywood became common, tongue and groove boards were also used for sheathing buildings and to construct concrete formwork. A strong joint, the tongue and groove joint is widely used for re-entrant angles
A haint blue porch ceiling in the United States. Haint blue is a collection of pale shades of blue-green that are traditionally used to paint porch ceilings in the Southern United States. [1] [2] Hex #D1EAEB is a popular shade of haint blue. The tradition originated with the Gullah in Georgia and South Carolina.
Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.
The upper groove is cut in the kamoi, a lintel between adjacent posts. [10] The traditional wooden track requires precise fitting, [5] and the wood may wear with use, or warp due to changes in humidity. [41] A well-made traditional groove system is light enough that the door can be slid with one finger.