Wood Furniture Design

There are many types of wooden house such as colonial style, Cape Cod style and saltbox style. Those kinds of homes have particular home plan which different one to another. This part is about saltbox wooden house that has distinctive appearance.

Saltbox came from its shape that similar to the shape of the container in which salt was sold in the colonial period. The prototypical saltbox style developed from the expansion of smaller colonials or cape. A small room was built on the back that connected to the main house with a lean-to roof as the need for more space. This type of wooden house became so popular that by the end of the 17th century that many new houses were built in the style.

Saltbox house is a Colonial style of architecture, which originated in, and usually associated with New England. However, its historical examples are found in South that names “cat’s slide” which refers to the shape of the roof. Saltboxes can be considered as timber frame houses with two stories in front and one in back, having a pitched roof with asymmetrical 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. The sturdy central chimney is a simple but effective focal point. The simplicity and strength of this design, first seen around 1650, continues to make saltbox houses popular today.

The authenticity of the original style with its careful attention to detail; eight-over-twelve sash windows tucked tightly under the eaves, a central chimney and a rear shed or cat’s slide roof. The simplicity home plan and appearance of saltbox wooden house is drawing an attention.

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