The idea for this curved ceiling originated with the
roof. The large size of the house and the client’s
desire for a fairly steep pitch led to a very prominent
roof structure. Thinking back to Thomas
Buckborough’s article on framing
an eyebrow dormer in the
August 2001 issue of JLC, I
decided that adding an eyebrow dormer to each side of an
extended wing would bring the roof into scale and enhance
the quaint, cottage-like feel the owner wanted. For continuity,
we also incorporated an eyebrow into the fascia of the
roof on both the front and back of the house.
But after seeing the revised drawings of the
eyebrow above the patio