Affordable House Exterior with Three Floors Ideas and Designs

Mountain home near Durango, Colorado. Mimics mining aesthetic. Wood truss with custom truss collar ties. Contains custom detailing like hammered steel railing and truss collar ties. Exterior lighting. Views to surrounding mountain scenes.

Cottage Home

Pillar & Perch: Architects + Builders

Front of home with circle driveway and bay window and front porch.

Middletown, CT - Historic Cedar Restoration

Connecticut Roofcrafters Llc

The rear view of this historic restoration project of a wood roof on this 17th-century Elizabethan-style residence in Middletown, CT. Built in 1686 by Daniel Harris for his son Samuel, this house was renovated in early 1700 to add the shed section beginning just below the chimney, providing the illusion of a traditional Saltbox house. We specified and installed Western Red cedar from Anbrook Industries, British Columbia.

Genesee Park House

First Lamp

zero net energy house in Seattle with large solar array on the roof

District Brownstones

henryelgersma

Highland Farmhouse - Carlsbad, CA

sk7 design studios, inc.

Pod House | Dulwich Village

Proctor & Shaw

View of rear elevation of Pod House by Proctor and Shaw Architects. A contemporary rear extension and refurbishment project in Dulwich, South London. ©Ben Blossom

127 Madison Ave.

Gradient Architecture PLLC

The spaces within maximize light penetration from the East and West facades through the use of skylights on a stepped floor plate and windows that project beyond the building of the envelope.

Loveday Road

Feneley Studio

©feneleystudio

Mission Hill

The Artisans Group, Inc.

This beautiful LEED Certified Mediterranean style home rests upon a sloped hillside in a classic Pacific Northwest setting. Part of a bustling and prominent neighborhood with great urban walkability, the graceful Aging In Place design features an open floor plan and a residential elevator all packaged within traditional Mission interiors. With extraordinary views of Budd Bay, downtown, and Mt. Rainier, mixed with exquisite detailing and craftsmanship throughout, Mission Hill is an instant gem of the South Puget Sound. Photography: Poppi Photography

Construction écologique à Viroflay

HU-30188382

Façade en double isolation en panneau sandwich avec des grandes ouvertures.

Modern Exterior Home Painting- Concord MA

H.D.F Painting

Exterior

Reynolds Pro Painters

Beach Style Exterior

Modern Classic

The Highpoint House

All this classic home needed was some new life and love poured into it. The client's had a very modern style and were drawn to Restoration Hardware inspirations. The palette we stuck to in this space incorporated easy neutrals, mixtures of brass, and black accents. We freshened up the original hardwood flooring throughout with a natural matte stain, added wainscoting to enhance the integrity of the home, and brightened the space with white paint making the rooms feel more expansive than reality.

Welcome Home - Residential Exterior

CSI - All Things Stone

An ultra chic, grand modern home resting at the top of this hillside. The exterior features our Black Rundle Castlestone from Pangaea® Natural Stone, and when combined with warm wooden elements and black trimmed windows, makes for quite the contemporary design! Click to learn more about this stone and how to find a dealer near you: https://www.allthingsstone.com/us-en/product-types/natural-stone-veneer/pangaea-natural-stone/castlestone/

Modern Mountain Home

StudioHOFF Architecture

The exposed beams is a perfect place to hang your tire swing!

Colonial Revival exteriors with additions and conservatory

Rob Sanders Architects LLC

This home originated as a homestead in the early 19th century, and was enlarged in 1905. The classic 5-bay front facade features a Colonial Reival porch and dormers. Numerous 20th-century additions detracting from the original house were removed to provide a light-filled Family Room,

Buckhead

J Steven Kemp Architect

Keystone Exteriors

Keystone Custom Homes

Affordable House Exterior with Three Floors Ideas and Designs

With so much attention devoted to interior design, the exterior of a home can often get overlooked, but as the first thing that welcomes both us and our guests, it is worth devoting some time tending to the outside of your house. Furthermore, focusing on the kerb appeal of your home can add significant value if and when it comes time to sell up. Georgian, Edwardian and Victorian homes, with their bay windows and elegant plasterwork, often benefit from built in architecture advantages, but even if your house design is unassuming from the outside, small decorative and structural improvements to the exterior of your home can equal huge impact. Key areas of building design to focus on are the front door, the driveway or approach to your home, the porch area, the windows, the facade and the roof. And just a note of caution... before any significant exterior architecture gets under way, check first whether you need planning permission for your exterior house designs– this applies particularly to listed houses or buildings in a conservation area, but it’s better to be safe than sorry. Take a look through the house designs, exterior architecture and images of front doors and driveways on Houzz to inspire your facade or building design, or read on for a few more pointers when it comes to redesigning your exterior.

How do I give my home an exterior facelift?

You may feel like your home’s exterior architecture is unalterable but there are a wide range of options available to improve its external building design, no matter what raw materials you begin with. Begin with the front door and the pathway or driveway that lead up to your home as these are easy to improve without huge budgets. A driveway or pathway must be kept neat and tidy and you can consider replacing tarmac with attractive tiles or gravel. Repainting or replacing the fence, wall or gate that fronts your home can also offer an overnight transformation without breaking the bank. An area to not cut corners however is the front door, where spending a little extra can make a huge difference in quality, and painting it in a colour you love will pay you back every time it welcomes you home! Updating your windows can be a significant building design project but it is one that has benefits both inside and out, as well as potentially saving you money on energy later. If you are lucky enough to have period windows such as bay windows with sash or leaded windows, then maintaining them should be a top priority, but if they are beyond repair then there are plenty of window professionals that will offer modern, double or triple glazed equivalents that could still work in your bay window. Working with uPVC? Not a problem – the best improvement you can make is to ensure your windows are the right size and shape for your home's overall proportions.

How do I update my home’s facade?

When it comes to updating the facade of your home, painting is the quickest and most affordable way to achieve a makeover, and if you opt for a colour other than white it can really make a statement (although sticking within the palette of your road and local area is advisable). A makeover that requires a bit more patience but can add romance and character to the most mundane of homes is to adorn the walls with climbing plants – delicate trailing wisteria is ever a British favourite, whilst roses and jasmine offer fragrance as well as beauty. If you’re looking to make more significant changes to the exterior of your home, whether that is adding timber cladding, hanging tiles, installing a bay window or rendering, then you should first check whether your house designs require planning permission. A New England style wood boarded home is beautiful and bright, but remember that it will need frequent repainting if it is going to stay looking its best, whilst stucco render or Tyrolean render can tidy up a home's exterior but think carefully before covering over original brickwork.

What should I consider if building a home from scratch?

If you’re working with an architect on a brand new build, the options are endless when it comes to deciding on the exterior architecture. But first things first, you will need to check planning permissions, building regulations and local restrictions, such as being in a conservation area, to make sure your plans for your exterior house designs will meet stipulations. If you are building in a street with predominantly Victorian facades, with bay windows and side returns, you might need to ensure your house designs fit in with the rest of the homes on the street, but if you’re building in a more remote area you’ll probably have more freedom for your building design. There are many architectural decisions to make, do you want a flat, gabled, hipped, mansard or perhaps even a curved roof? Do you want bay windows? Crittall windows? Perhaps external shutters? Do you want glass walls? Do you want wood cladding? Do you want a very symmetrical building design or something more contemporary? The decision is all yours but remember to consider the benefits of various materials over others and the effects that some architecture styles will have on everyday life, for example glass walls will look attractive but will give you less privacy. Your architect or builder will be able to guide you through the best exterior architecture choices for your house designs.

Ireland

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