Hipped Roof
A hipped roof is a four (or more) sided roof style. Hipped houses have a smooth roof to wall joints, around the home and attic on all sides.
Gabled Roof
Gabled roof is most famous roofs and commonly used roof. They are categorized by a straight slope or slant declining from ridge to eave, creating a peak or triangle on the side or front.
Mansard Roof
It is nearly perpendicular wall that binds into a different roof plane. A hipped roof with two separate roofs pitches low down gradients from the flat top or edge line then breaching to a vertical pitch over the wall joints.
Gambrel Roof
A gambrel roof is allied with barns and has a wide upper story and surface that alter slopes.
Saltbox Roof
It is similar a gabled roof with irregular roof faces. The asymmetry creates one frontage that is two stories high tumbling to a single story.
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