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Traditional-style windows, shutters and doors–architecture’s jewelry–serve as warm welcomers, inviting people to come inside and visit. Windows & Doors Windows World Companies specializing in reproducing historically appropriate designs Print Get Our Newsletter Windows & Doors Entryway to the Past ...
Once a Malay artisan’s dwelling, the grand two-storey Plantation House was built in Penang back in the 1930s. Later sold to a Chinese Hakka family who owned rubber and durian plantations, the house’s notable features include colonial style window shutters, high ceiling, thick wooden support ...
In the Carolinas even in closely packed Charleston wooden houses were much common than brick houses. Eighteenth-century houses showed great interior improvements over the former ones. Windows were made larger and shutters removed. Large clear panes replaced the small leaded glass of the seventeenth ...
(as mentioned above), with thick double walls, very high ceilings, windows mostly with wooden shutters (generally small and located high up on the walls, and which are rarely opened) and the almost exclusive use of the traditional locally available building materials: limestone and lime-based ...
Inmedievalilluminatedmanuscripts, curtains are shown knotted or looped up at doorways. Until the end of the Middle Ages, window openings were covered with utilitarian wooden shutters or a heavy cloth.Bedswere curtained on all sides and covered with a tester, or canopy. By day, when the beds ...