Salt box house

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…

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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.

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Birdy on Instagram: “Contrast... Summer or Winter? Home sweet old home... looking as she always did since the 1740s ..no additions, original Saltbox...has…”

22′ x 22′ Dutch Saltbox, 2 Bedrooms – 1 Baths, 968 sf

The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador says what most people call a saltbox house is in fact a biscuit box.

The saltbox house and building style came about because of necessity, pure and simple. Early colonials built many of these homes up & down the East coat.

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Front Door of Saltbox House 🌻