Dormer windows not only break up the roof's design but also add the appearance of height, thereby elevating the overall look. However, before you rush to add dormer windows to your home ...

A dormer, whose name derives from the Latin term “dormitorium,” meaning sleeping room, is a window set vertically within a slanted roof, typically with its own miniature roof. Dormers can lend ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A dormer is a window commonly set vertically on a sloping roof. Each dormer has a flat, arched, hipped, pointed, or ornamented roof. Dormer windows can be built into the ...

Q. My attic is not tall enough for living space, but I use it for storage. I thought about adding a small roof dormer for light and to improve the appearance of my home. How do I design one?

Eyebrow dormers are small, arched windows emerging from a pitched roof; eyebrow colonials almost always have straight roofs un-adorned by dormers. And technically, colonials are houses built ...

A group of dormers are set into the sloping roof of this house in Tokushima by ... Each room has a small window looking back into the main space. A staircase with open treads that ascends through ...

Heavy window hoods shade the windows on the uppermost floor. Above them, a pair of seamless gabled dormers pops out and an octagonal tower rises from the roof. Panels of quatrefoil bedeck the ...

PLANS to install large dormer windows on the roof of a former church building have been refused by a planning panel. An application to convert Sandy Lane Methodist Church into a house were ...