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A contemporary house has a ‘new look’. It consists of a more open grouping of rooms. Oftentimes these rooms are all on the first floor. However, first floor ranch home are generally more expensive to build than the traditional two story house. Its exterior is usually masonry or some type of wood or vinyl siding. More prominent in today’s homes is the expansive use of full window walls. It is obvious that residential architects of today are more daring and more, what we may term as, ‘industrial minded’. These methods of construction are more technical and complicated than in previous generations of homes being built. The combination of concrete, steel, glass, wood components (architectural, dimensional and engineered lumber), and other materials make it urgently necessary that al parts be fitted together as a delicate and complex mechanism. The exterior of homes are designed for beauty with long sweeping lines either vertical or horizontal. Steeper and mixed roof pitches are common occurrences in residential framing. This gives the home a very prestigious look. Meanwhile, the interior partitions of a home have also been undergoing a transformation of purposes. Instead of being rigidly fixed and supporting, they are now often flexible and movable to a new location. They sometimes extend upward to a height not exceeding an easy reach.
