Mixing Roof Pitches

Mixing in roof details or parts and materials that match well with the house creates a style.

Mixing roof pitches.

The picture below describes this visually better than. A crossed gable roof is two gable roof sections put together at a right angle. A side gable is a basic pitched roof. Roof pitch refers to the amount of rise a roof has compared to the horizontal measurement of the roof called the run.

Contemporary houses often have flat roofs which shouldn. To see how pitch impacts the look of a garage and changes cost click the design center button on our pole barn kits page. But really combination of roofing styles is where character peaks. What is the standard pitch for a roof.

That roof will of course be the same pitch as the roof it connects to continuing across the center section. The pitch will change for the block on the right side and the entire center section can line up on a single plan. Homes with a mono pitch roof are usually designed with large windows or multiple windows to take advantage of natural light. One idea i had was to sort of combine hip and gable roofs by doing the two roof peaks on the left the lower pitches with a little shed roof going across the entirely of the gable right above the garage doors for example and making doing a traditional rake gable edge on the porch entry.

A sub variation of the mono pitch is known as saw. Where the pitches change the ridges won t be parallel but otherwise the change should be pretty invisible.