Acetate

The plastic sheet material often used for making stencils.

 

Accent Lighting

A type of lighting that highlights an area or object to emphasize that aspect of a room’s character.

 

Accessible Designs

Those that accommodate persons with physical disabilities.

 

Acrylic Paint

A water-soluble paint with a plastic polymer (acrylic) binder.

 

Adaptable Designs

Those that can be easily changed or adjusted to accommodate a person with disabilities.

 

Alkyd Paint

A paint-thinner-soluble paint that contains a binder made of soya or urethane resins (alkyds). It is often imprecisely called “oil-based” paint. Alkyds have replaced linseed oil, which was used as a binder in oil-based paint.

 

Ambient Lighting

General or background illumination that surrounds a room, such as the light produced by a ceiling fixture or cove lighting.

 

Antique

All items, including buildings, sculpture, furnishings, art, accessories, personal possessions over 100 years old.

 

Area

Typically refers to the length x width of a wall or floor space, Cubic Area refers to length x width x height.

 

Armoire

Originally large cabinet or wardrobe used for storing clothes, often converted into entertainment centers to store electronic equipment.

 

Asymmetrical

Elements positioned off-center to one another.