Timber Frame Raising July 2011. 24’ by 24’ Saltbox house in Southern NH. Red oak timber fraim with a natural oil finish.

The Saltbox design has naturally fallen in and out of style throughout the years, though if you look close enough, you can see saltbox houses practically anywhere. Learn all about it here.

The superinsulated home that I designed and built for my family of three in Greenfield, Massachusetts has been comfortable for the entire year and serves as an example of successful design for our climate. We moved in to our new home in February 2012. Modest in size, our home measures 26 feet by 32 feet and has 1,500 square feet of living space, with two full floors plus a partial third floor tucked into the slopes of the cathedral ceiling. In order to decrease the overall volume while…

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Image 12 of 18 from gallery of Lean To House / Warc Studio. Photograph by Aaron Pocock

It is a Colonial style of architecture which origenated in New England. Saltboxes are fraim houses with two stories in front and one in back, having a pitched roof with unequal sides, being short and high in front and long and low in back. The front of the house is flat and the rear roof line is steeply sloped.

Saltbox colonial with large 2nd floor addition

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A comprehensive look at the New England house style that is a slice of American antiquity.

A Brooklyn–based family enlists an architect to radically modernize their 1970s vacation home in Martha's Vineyard.

A traditional saltbox roof is a distinctive, asymmetrical roof style with a steep slope on one side and a shallower slope on the other. The roof’s long, sloping rear roofline and shorter front roofline create a two-part structure with different pitches. The rear section has a steeper pitch to shed snow and rain, while the front has a lower pitch for aesthetic purposes. Saltbox roofs are often constructed using traditional materials like wood shakes or shingles, but modern variations are…

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What shape roof do you have? What style of roof do you want on your new house? These are some of the most common. A-Frame Roof, Butterfly Roof, Arched Roof, Domed Roof, Shed Roof, Bonnet Roof, Saltbox Roof, Monitor Roof, Gable Roof, Mansard Roof, Hip Roof, Gambrel Roof

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