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In this bright and inviting living room created by Veida Sadri Design, the crown molding feels like a natural extension of the ceiling and fireplace's open grid-work design. The decision to paint ...
French doors with 14-pane windows open into the breakfast room. The living room mantelpiece is wooden with a projecting curved medallion on top and similarly incised baroque decoration. [2] Another set of double doors leads to the dining room, in the northeast corner of the house. It, too, has baseboard molding and a plaster ceiling cornice.
The entry to the living rooms are double pocket doors and the living room ceiling is surrounded with box molding and underneath it, a picture rail. The floor is a carpeted hardwood floor with a plain 12-inch baseboard and all other rooms contain the same floor and ceiling finishes with a few variations in the walls.
The breezeway through the center of the house is a unique feature, with rooms of the house opening into the breezeway. The breezeway provided a cooler covered area for sitting. The combination of the breezeway and open windows in the rooms of the house allowed outside air to enter the living quarters in the pre–air-conditioning era. [5]
Crown moulding (interchangeably spelled Crown molding in American English) is a form of cornice created out of decorative moulding installed atop an interior wall. It is also used atop doors, windows, pilasters and cabinets .
In large, formal homes, a sitting room is often a small private living area adjacent to a bedroom, such as the Queens' Sitting Room and the Lincoln Sitting Room of the White House. [ 4 ] In the late 19th or early 20th century, Edward Bok advocated using the term living room for the room then commonly called a parlo[u]r or drawing room , and is ...
The word dormer is derived from the Middle French dormeor, meaning "sleeping room", [3] as dormer windows often provided light and space to attic-level bedrooms. [2]One of the earliest uses of dormers was in the form of lucarnes, slender dormers which provided ventilation to the spires of English Gothic churches and cathedrals.
The middle ages are characterized as a period of decline and erosion in the formal knowledge of Classical architectural principles. [ citation needed ] This eventually resulted in an amateur and 'malformed' use of moulding patterns that eventually developed into the complex and inventive Gothic style .