gingerbread trim
Decorative wooden lacework
Gingerbread trim is the ornate wooden detailing on Victorian-era houses—the scrollwork, spindles, and decorative cutouts adorning porches, eaves, and gables.
The name comes from its resemblance to decorated gingerbread cookies.
The style suggests elaborate, sometimes excessive ornamentation: a Queen Anne cottage dripping with gingerbread trim.
- Queen Anne styleBaroque-influenced design period
- painted ladyWidespread migratory butterfly
- scrollworkSpiral ornamental design
- wood carvingSculpting with timber
- scroll sawTool for cutting curves
fretwork · brackets · Victorian architecture · Gothic Revival · handcrafting · rosettes · spindles · corbels · Second Empire · Italianate · latticework · filigree · bargeboard · pine wood · cedar wood · paint finishes · joinery · varnishing
- exterior trimfascia, soffit, cornice, bargeboard, crown molding
- Gothic Victorianturret, gable, spire, pointed arch, gargoyle
- millworkcrown molding, baseboards, wainscoting, chair rail, molding
- tropical architecturebreezeway, cross ventilation, hurricane shutters, lanai, louvers
- Victorian ArchitectureVictorian architecture, Victorian, Victorian style, Queen Anne, Italianate
- Victorian homesturret, steep roofs, bay windows, wraparound porch, bay window
gingerbread trimmodernist architecture
Spare, functional building design
International Style · minimalism · functionalism · mid-century modern · industrial aesthetic
gingerbread trimstructural support
Element bearing weight
foundation · support columns · framing · support column · joists
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