N.Y. -- A dormer is a window commonly set vertically on a sloping roof. Each dormer has a flat, arched, hipped, pointed, or ornamented roof. Dormer windows can be built into the roof or a wall.

Charlie and Tom Silva work in the attic, installing a hip beam and roof rafters to match the original roof. Downstairs, building scientist ... there's going to be a new dormer that's going to ...

Dormer conversions are less expensive than mansard or hip-to-gable conversions ... If you have a detached house with sloping roofs on either side, you can build on both to create an even more spacious ...

such as a hipped-roof bungalow with a shed-roof porch or a stately Dutch Colonial embellished with rows of gabled dormers. What's more, a roof's pitch is just as evocative: The precipitous gables ...

A hipped dormer typically mimics a hipped roof which has four sloping sides ... which specializes in converting historic buildings into condos, first came before the OHDC commission in January ...

so make sure it’s small enough not to detract from the overall appearance of the building. In general, a dormer should break up the roofline without pulling the eye too far from the roof.

While steep gable roof forms, dormers and cat slides characterize the English Cottage style, it is the distinctive hip roof design that identifies French Eclectic. The main body of the residence ...