| Acetate |
The plastic sheet material often used for making stencils.
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| Accent Lighting |
A type of lighting that highlights an area or object to emphasize that aspect of a room’s character.
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| Accessible Designs |
Those that accommodate persons with physical disabilities.
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| Acrylic Paint |
A water-soluble paint with a plastic polymer (acrylic) binder.
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| Adaptable Designs |
Those that can be easily changed or adjusted to accommodate a person with disabilities.
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| 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.
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| Ambient Lighting |
General or background illumination that surrounds a room, such as the light produced by a ceiling fixture or cove lighting.
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| Antique |
All items, including buildings, sculpture, furnishings, art, accessories, personal possessions over 100 years old.
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| Area |
Typically refers to the length x width of a wall or floor space, Cubic Area refers to length x width x height.
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| Armoire |
Originally large cabinet or wardrobe used for storing clothes, often converted into entertainment centers to store electronic equipment.
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| Asymmetrical |
Elements positioned off-center to one another. |