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English Domestic Architecture

Many forms of houses developed in Great Britain , which will serve here as exemplars for the evolution of European domestic architecture. The castle, an elaborate form of fortified residence, is discussed elsewhere in the encyclopedia, as is the Chateau.   In the Bronze Age, people at Skara Brae on the Orkney Islands lived in one-room stone houses with a central hearth; the houses were connected by passageways and used a variety of furnishings made of stone. The long house, which was common in the Iron age throughout Europe , consisted of a living room with a central hearth and a stable or byre for domestic animals. During the Dark Ages round huts made of wood or stacked stones without mortar were also common. The only surviving Anglo Saxon structures are ecclesiastical stone buildings.   After 1066 the Normans brought to England a type of stone house known as a keep. The high walls and small, narrow windows of the stone keep made it ...

Choosing and Installation Floor Ceramic

Choosing ceramic motif and installation is the key for your harmony color on your house. For choosing motif and color sometimes need a special knowledge about this, for this purpose you can't choose by your feeling itself, especially if you don't have any good art feeling. The school to study the color harmony itself needs three years. But the key to choose a harmony colors pairing in united can see to the nature, this is a simple method to imitate that have been created by God. Color composition can see in certain animal, in flower, insect and many others.   The next one that is very important, how to install ceramic in floor and walls: 1.        Install ceramic in floor and wall better in the last step for building erection, to avoid broken because of other not finished work. 2.        Surface that will install ceramic should clean, dry and evenly. 3.      ...

Carpet Choice

Arranging carpet is exactly easy to, but there are some matter which your need to pay attention so that more interesting and precisely. Theme and size measure. This is of vital importance paid attention to. Space theme goes together the choice of carpet color, and motif. For example, if you wish the dressy settlement classical , better choose the carpet with classic theme. Size and space function. Size of Space has an effect on using of carpet size. Size Comparison too far from room space, or on the contrary-- can make an inappropriate impression or not well-balanced. So, if only you own the fairish family room size of 4 m x 5 m, you can use carpet size of 160 cm x 240 cm. If have smaller space, use carpet size of 140 cm x 200 cm. Carpet function may not be forgotten. To close the overall of floor, choose the artless carpet or carpet owning a few motif. If carpet expected becomes the accent, choose the appropriate carpet for space function. Carpet for bed room, usually carpet is pla...

Greek and Roman Domestic Architecture

Basic of the development of domestic architecture was the megaron house which first appeared in northern Mesopotamia around 1800 BC. This type consisted of the rectangular main room, the Megaron, with a hearth and four columns to support the roof, and an entrance porch with two wooden posts. Greek homes in the Homeric era were influence by the megaron type, and the Mycenaean Greeks use it as the basic unit of their architecture. The megaron house included several fundamentals of construction, posts, lintel beams and the frame. The primitive porch of the megaron house was the prototype of the open column portico of the classical Greek temple. During the classical period (5th and 4th centuries BC) the Greek replaced the megaron type with the courtyard plan. The rooms of Greek houses in the classical period were asymmetrically grouped around three side of a court, with along central porch, the pastas, across the width of the building on the north of the court. In contrast to the irregular...

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