Saltbox Roof Designs

Today there are not a lot of newly constructed homes that have this type of roof design.

Saltbox roof designs.

A salt box house defining feature is its roof. A saltbox style with its long rear slope on the roof is one of the most popular styles for storage sheds. Saltbox roofs look like a patched gable style roof with two sides sloping outwards from a central ridge. Work with attention and plan every step of the construction from the very beginning.

Our how to build saltbox plans design has a true salt box style roof comes with many different standard sizes. First of all we recommend you to decide the slopes of the roof as to drain the water properly and to enhance the look of your garden. Building a saltbox roof is a complex project as it has certain particularities that cannot be found in other cases. A saltbox roof is a design that was used extensively in the colonial era.

Practical and easy to build a saltbox provides plenty of room on a small footprint. Salt box roofs feel like a painted gable style roof with two sides of a central ridge sloping outwards. However instead of sloping to the same length one side reaches all the way to the first. To calculate a saltbox roof select saltbox from the roof type dropdown list or select the corresponding button on the toolbar.

This shed can be finished in many ways and looks spectacular in board and batten siding. This will result in one wall being higher than the other.