Roof Styles

Gable Roof: A roof with two sloping sides, forming a triangle at one or both ends.



Gambrel: A roof with two angles of slope on each of two sides, the lower slope steeper than the upper slope,






Hip Roof: All four sides of this roof slope inward to meet at a peak, as here, or a ridge.



Saltbox: A variation of the gable roof, originally created when low lean-to addition was built onto the back wall of a house.



Mansard Roof: All four sides of this roof have two slopes, the lower four steeper than the upper four.


Shed Roof: A simple, one-slope roof; also called a lean-to roof.