At the end of the garden stood a long, solid, flat-roofed house built of the prevailing lava rock.
Within a few minutes it had increased into a clump of green palm trees and a scattered group of flat-roofed houses.
The picture presented small, flat-roofed houses rising among them, here and there, some dome shaped cupola.
This building is also of a prefabricated construction but, unlike the flat-roofed houses, has a sheet-metal barrelled roof.
One of the many myths about lightning is that flat-roofed houses are safer from strikes than peak-roofed ones.
The front and side exteriors of the flat-roofed houses will be brick veneer, the rear, vinyl siding.
The first flat-roofed house in the Cape was erected in 1732; whale oil was used to prevent it from leaking.
The town, sand-color, was spread out below with its single-storied, flat-roofed houses.
Nefta is a town of cube-shaped, flat-roofed houses huddled closely together, with Tozeur-style decoration.
For a flat-roofed house, a couple of shallow rain gooves running from side to side will help keep water out.
