Salt box house exterior modern

It is a Colonial style of architecture which originated in New England. Saltboxes are frame houses with two stories in front and one in back, having a pitched roof with unequal 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.

Timber Frame Raising July 2011. 24’ by 24’ Saltbox house in Southern NH. Red oak timber frame with a natural oil finish.

Sinuous Saltbox in Westborough, Massachusetts

Whether you are considering a black roof or you already have one, here are 12 exterior siding colors that will look beautiful with the ebony hue.

Designer Farrin Cary honored the home's character by retaining its 19th-century integrity while giving it modern layers.

Recently sold: $565,000. A true reproduction New England Saltbox, center fireplace with 2 fireboxes, wide board pine floors through out. Beautiful perennial gardens. Treed quiet settings.

The superinsulated home that I designed and built for my family of three in Greenfield, Massachusetts has been comfortable for the entire year and serves as an example of successful design for our climate. We moved in to our new home in February 2012. Modest in size, our home measures 26 feet by 32 feet and has 1,500 square feet of living space, with two full floors plus a partial third floor tucked into the slopes of the cathedral ceiling. In order to decrease the overall volume while…

A Brooklyn–based family enlists an architect to radically modernize their 1970s vacation home in Martha's Vineyard.