According to Ornametals, the dormer window was invented by Francois Mansart in fifteenth-century Paris as a way of getting ...

Question: I use my attic for storage, but it’s dark. I thought about adding a small roof dormer for light and to improve the appearance of my home. How do I design one? Answer: Adding a dormer to your ...

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 roof or ...

The eyes have it - not iPods or iPhones, but eyelid windows, eyebrow dormers and eaves that provide both function and charm to a building. Defined as low profile, with no sides and literally rolling ...