One of my cousins dropped by today, for the first time in years, and as soon as she was inside, she remarked, “oh, I forgot this house has arches.” Yes, in fact there are five arches in this house.
Got arches? (It counts as an arch if you can actually walk under it, not some decorative thing on a wall. And all of my arches are inside; outside ones count too.)
My house is a 1937 center-hall colonial. The entryways to the living room and dining room are big, beautiful arches with gorgeous, honkin’ wide molding. Those (and the laundry chute) sold me on the house.
Nope. I’ve got a couple of doorways with no doors, but they are squared off at the top.
I have arches in my flat, of course I live in a McDonalds
(OK I just had to be the first to say that) 
It used to twenty five years ago.
I have some brick arches in my basement. I remember when I first saw the house I walked through one of the arches and thought to myself “I have to own this arch.” I didn’t let on - I would have paid the asking price if I had to - and I negotiated down a bit a bought it…the whole house, not just the arch.
Yep. 2 in my apartment, leading from the living room to the front hall and the dining room respectively.
The house I grew up in not only had an arched doorway between the kitchen and hallway, but it had an arched door that fit right into it. It was cool.
My apartment used to be 2 efficiencies, and there’s a (somewhat crooked) archway in the dividing wall. The whole place is half-assedly remodeled; that’s part of its charm.
Here is an example of one of my arches (as the actress said to the bishop).
This was mid-build; the pile of crap beyond the doorway is not an ongoing feature.
I live in a 1930’s Bauhaus building. So needless to say, nary a hint of an arch.
I live in a weaver’s cottage in a terrace in the UK. No arches but a fantastic exposed beam from where a wall was removed between the front room and what would have been the kitchen area.
Our apartment is the top floor of one of those old-fashioned houses that has tunnel-shaped protrusions in four directions on the roof. I’m not describing it very well, and I have no idea what this style is called, but the upshot is that we have tunnel-shaped arches in the bedrooms. They are notorious for sharp impacts with the craniums of those who have temporarily forgotten that they are there. This is why my bed is placed directly and exactly under the length of the arch. (the rest of the ceiling slopes down towards the outside wall.) Someday I would like to hang filmy curtains around the arch down to the floor, around my bed. Hmm.
No.
Every entryway to every room on the main floor of my house. It was a passing suggestion by my wife that turned into one of the best ideas we had.
My husband put in arches. All our doorways (without doors) were squared off. Now they all have arches. When its time to sheet-rock the arches, the dogs and I hide out in the basement, cause it will involve lots of cussing and slamming stuff around. Making the arches makes him cranky!
Yes, there are a couple of very high, prominent ones out front that allow entry to a covered porch landing. Most of the windows are tall and thin and are topped with an additional half moon window, so when viewed from outside it does give the impression of there being arches throughout. None inside though, unless you want to count several domed ceilings.
One between the connecting living room and dining room areas - we have a 9’ ceiling, and the walls come in a couple feet on both sides of the rooms to kind of divide the space into the two rooms. Someone, probably long ago, painted over the woodwork on the bottom part of the archway. I’m wondering if we put in the effort to strip it down, would we find long-hidden lovely wood, or the crappiest stuff they could find, painted over immediately after installation? Considering how many layers of paint are on there, I’d hate to make the effort and turn up junk.
Only arches in my complex are each building’s entrance.
The house I spent my first 11 years in had two arches, one in the living room and one in the dining room; both opened into the kitchen.
Three arches in our 1961 house. I like them because they remind me of my grandparents’ house, which also had arches.
Yup - two big ones in my old town Victorian house. They’ve been stripped of their molding, though, and replacing it is going to be easy, but expensive. We’re saving up to get the good quality - it will be $1400 for both! ::eek::