Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration.
Peek roof line dormer.
Or with prebuilt trusses.
It has a roof that forms a peak with a triangular gable of wall above the window beneath.
It can be built with rafters that run from the walls and meet at a raised center ridge to form a peak or gable above two opposite walls.
The gable dormer is the most common type.
Hipped almost as typical as the gable dormer these hipped roof dormers are one of the defining characteristics of the american foursquare.
Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer.
Continue shingling in this manner by overlapping the next shingle until you reach the valley.
Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story.
Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons.
Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails.
A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall.
Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home.
Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it.
The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line.
Running trim gable decoration.