NEW MEXICO HOME STYLES and TERMS BASIC NEW MEXICO HOME STYLES NORTHERN NEW MEXICO STYLE Pitched Metal roof sometimes with Gables. PUEBLO NEW MEXICO STYLE Adobe type home with Flat roof, rounded corners and sometimes with Vigas protruding through the walls at the roof line. TERRITORIAL STYLE Adobe type home with Flat roof, squared corners and white trim over the windows and doors with detail at the roof line. TERMS ADOBE: Special high silicon mud that is mixed with straw or sage to create blocks approx. 18 inches. The mud is used also as the mortar between the blocks and the plaster to smooth the surface. BANCOS: Adobe or frame wire which are shaped benches built into or jutting out of the wall. CANALES: Water canals or run offs on so called Flat or Pueblo roofs. Sometimes they are just holes at the roof level while others are carved wood with tin liners to spout the water from the roof. A Contemporary New Mexico style. CORBEL: A wood block carbed at the top of a vertical pole or wood stanchion that spreads the weight and is detailed or decorative. KIVA: There are three common uses; One is the rounded plastered style of Fire Places. Second, a outdoor rounded fire place for Bread making. Third, a Ceremonial round meeting area below ground. LATILLAS: Natural ones are sticks or branches laid on the Vigas or Beams to become the Roof support. Finished Latillas are smoothed and uniform and carved out of a 4 X 8 sheet of wood. NICHOS: A ledge or cut into a wall sometimes lit with Art objects on or inside them. PORTAL: A covered patio SALTILLO TILE: Soft ceramic tile from Mexico called Santa Fe style. VIGA: The beam used for Roof supports. Natural Vigas are tree trunks whcih are finished and can be washed wood.

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