Interior Design and Decorating Terms Glossary - A

Definitions for Acrylics, Adirondack Furniture, Adobe, Aedicule, Adhesive Stains, Aggregate, Air Conditioning, Air Lock, Airbrick and Aisle

Acrylics:

(textiles) Are made from petroleum. They have wool like fibres. It is not as strong as polyester/nylon. Modacrylics are also named because they have been chemically modified to offer good flame resistance. They don’t wrinkle or crease easily.

Adirondack Furniture:

A rustic furniture made in North America in the mid 1800’s from roughly hewn timber and bent branches and logs.

Adobe:

Sunbaked bricks or blocks reinforced with straw. Usually 450 x 300 x 10 mm. Context used in a plaster rendition.

Aedicule:

the architectural frame of an opening consisting of the two columns supporting the entablature and pediment.

Adhesive Stains:

(wallcovering) stains appear on the paper face, caused by bad pasting methods or poor paper handling.

Aggregate:

Stone gravel sand of different sizes to form the bulk to mixtures such as concrete plaster or asphalt or a macadam road. The major component of plaster, concrete, asphalt or tarmacadam. It is usually broken stones, slag gravel, or sand.

Air conditioning:

Air that is treated as it comes into the house. Either cooled heated and or filtered. Usually air-conditioning is the result of a ventilation system incorporating a heat pump.

Air conditioning unit on wall