Has your family outgrown your house? If so, maybe your are trying to make a decision on whether to sell your current house and move to a larger home, or to remodel or add an addition to your current home. With the recent downturn in the housing industry, many people are choosing to remodel their home.
If you live in an area where home typically have unfinished basements (in-ground), then that provides you with a really good option for adding livable space to your home that previously was unused.
However, if you live in an area such as I do, Texas, where there typically are not basements, you can look to turning your attic into livable space. I recently had thought about that, and thought about adding a dormer to my attic/roof. Dormers are great because they add natural light and usable space, add height to bathrooms, kitchens, seating areas, and niches for desks. Dormers will help you gain more space in the middle of the attic to improve movement and circulation.
I was having difficulty deciding on what type of dormer/dormers to utilize in the remodeling process so that the style was appropriate to my house. There are many different styles and shapes of dormers:
- Flat
- Shed
- Gabled
- Pedimented
- Hipped
- Deck
- Arched
- Oval
- Eyebrow
- Inset
- Composite (includes several of the above forms)
The list below can give you an idea of what style of dormer is typically used for what style of home:
• Gable dormers: Colonial Revivial, Georgian, Shingle, Queen Anne, Stick, Chateauesque, Tudor, and Craftsman, to name a few
• Hipped dormers: Prairie, Shingle, Craftsman
• Arched dormers: Second Empire, Beaux Arts, French Eclectic
• Oval dormers: French Eclectic, Beaux Arts, possibly Italian Renaissance
• Shed dormers: Craftsman, Arts & Crafts, Colonial Revival
• Eyebrow dormers: Shingle, Romanesque, Queen Anne
• Pedimented dormers: Georgian, Federal, Colonial Revival styles
Brian Heltzel
Putting On The Fix Remodeling
Burleson, TX
www.puttingonthefix.com
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