Salt Box Style Roof

A saltbox roof is a design that was used extensively in the colonial era.

Salt box style roof. A saltbox house is a traditional new england style of house with a long pitched roof that slopes down to the back generally a wooden frame house. Although the style has historic roots these homes remain popular today. We might call it the saltbox but there s no doubt this style is just perfect. 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.

Today there are not a lot of newly constructed homes that have this type of roof design. Building a saltbox roof is a complex project as it has certain particularities that cannot be found in other cases. Salt box roofs feel like a painted gable style roof with two sides of a central ridge sloping outwards. Now you will see this type of rooftop design on garages sheds and outbuildings rather than on homes.

The flat front and central chimney are recognizable features but the asymmetry of the unequal sides and the long low rear roof line are the most distinctive features of a saltbox which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept. A saltbox has just one story in the back and two stories in the front. However instead of sloping to the same length one side reaches all the way to the first. Work with attention and plan every step of the construction from the very beginning.

A salt box house defining feature is its roof.