FEBRUARY JLC 2000
Hand someone a pencil and a piece
of paper, ask them for a quick
sketch of a house, they'll almost always
come up with a gable-end view of a
structure with a symmetrically pitched
roof and punched windows. This mental
image of the word "house" is one
that most of us form as children, and
carry with us into adulthood.
That mental image doesn't come out
of thin air. There are a lot of simple
gable-roofed houses out in the real
world, and it's a form that has some
obvious practical benefits. In a storyand-
a-half structure, this approach limits
the amount of headroom and natural
light available upstairs. So shed dormers
are often added