Saltbox Roof Designs

This shed can be finished in many ways and looks spectacular in board and batten siding.

Saltbox roof designs.

However instead of sloping to the same length one side reaches all the way to the first. See more ideas about shed plans shed design roof truss design. This will result in one wall being higher than the other. A saltbox roof is similar to a gable roof but has different slopes and or spans for the front and rear sides of the roof.

A saltbox house is a wooden frame building with a distinctive asymmetric roof in american architecture. Sep 15 2014 explore marsha gulick s board saltbox barns on pinterest. Sheathed in clapboard and topped with a gable roof this saltbox home was occupied by six generations of the waldo family over the course of 250 years before it was passed on to a local historical. Practical and easy to build a saltbox provides plenty of room on a small footprint.

We might call it the saltbox but there s no doubt this style is just perfect. Saltbox roofs look like a patched gable style roof with two sides sloping outwards from a central ridge. To calculate a saltbox roof select saltbox from the roof type dropdown list or select the corresponding button on the toolbar.