Expansive and Small Blue House Exterior Ideas and Designs

Philip Vile

The timber clad rear facade glows as night creating a play of light and shadow against the ground and boundary walls. Image by: Jack Lovel Photography

Clap Immo

Shannon McGrath

A large family home with orangery and bi-fold doors

The U-house was designed to ensure the owners will receive maximum natural light into each room whilst maintaining the luxury of having both summer and winter outdoor spaces. As you enter the house, you will experience a visual connection from front to rear of the property through a feature pond creatively placed in the central courtyard. Photos by Ben Hoskins.

All Shutters and Blinds

Nulla Vale is a small dwelling and shed located on a large former grazing site. The structure anticipates a more permanent home to be built at some stage in the future. Early settler homes and rural shed types are referenced in the design. The Shed and House are identical in their overall dimensions and from a distance, their silhouette is the familiar gable ended form commonly associated with farming sheds. Up close, however, the two structures are clearly defined as shed and house through the material, void, and volume. The shed was custom designed by us directly with a shed fabrication company using their systems to create a shed that is part storage part entryways. Clad entirely in heritage grade corrugated galvanized iron with a roof oriented and pitched to maximize solar exposure through the seasons. The House is constructed from salvaged bricks and corrugated iron in addition to rough sawn timber and new galvanized roofing on pre-engineered timber trusses that are left exposed both inside and out. Materials were selected to meet the clients’ brief that house fit within the cognitive idea of an ‘old shed’. Internally the finishes are the same as outside, no plasterboard and no paint. LED lighting strips concealed on top of the rafters reflect light off the foil-backed insulation. The house provides the means to eat, sleep and wash in a space that is part of the experience of being on the site and not removed from it.

The centre piece of the works was a single storey ground floor extension that extended the kitchen and usable living space, whilst connecting the house with the garden thanks to the Grand Slider II aluminium sliding doors and a large fixed frame picture window. Architect: Simon Whitehead Architects Photographer: Bill Bolton

One of 5 award winning new build houses by Junnell Homes in Prinsted, Emsworth, Hampshire. Widespread use of natural materials to fit in with the local vernacular style. Brick & flint, lime render and oak structures. The classical arts & crafts exterior belies the large open plan contemporary interior finishes by At No 19

NIkolay Kazakov

Paul Muir

Inspired by the slopes and angles of the existing home’s gabled roof and those of the Victorian homes in the area, the design team created a faceted, angular facade of vertical battens for the new extension.

Christine Francis

Graham Warman

ÁBATON's Portable Home ÁPH80 project, developed as a dwelling ideal for 2 people, easily transported by road and ready to be placed almost anywhere. Photo: Juan Baraja

Una particolare attenzione è stata data allo studio degli spazi esterni. La villa è circondata da un grande giardino che degrada verso i vigneti. Il piazzale antistante con la grande fontana è stato volutamente lasciato sgombro, limitando l’intervento all’inserimento di bordure fiorite. Le essenze mediterranee, a bassa manutenzione, con fioritura prolungata, sono state scelte con cura. Alcune piante di rose rampicanti evidenziano la struttura del porticato.