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Expansive House Exterior with a Butterfly Roof Ideas and Designs

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The Crusader - Roof View
The Crusader - Roof View
Drewett WorksDrewett Works
The house takes inspiration from an F8 Crusader plane, wings folded, on a carrier deck. A spinal column runs through providing circulation and illumination by sky lights and clerestories, penetrating the core of the house with natural light. Estancia Club Builder: Peak Ventures Interiors: Ownby Design Landscape: High Desert Designs Photography: Jeff Zaruba
River's End
River's End
Pineapple House Interior DesignPineapple House Interior Design
Both functional and decorative pools are constructed on home’s three sides. Pool’s edges run just slightly under the home’s perimeter, and from most angles, the residence appears to be floating. The rear patio’s limestone columns have electric roll-down screens to allow outdoor living without insects.
Forest House.
Forest House.
Bayside ArchitectureBayside Architecture
Modern Rustic Sugar Bowl House
Modern Rustic Sugar Bowl House
Staprans DesignStaprans Design
Modern Country Home
Modern Country Home
Alair Homes ChilliwackAlair Homes Chilliwack
Contemporary home featuring modern style, commercial cladding and glazing with low pitch roof lines.
Custom Residence 1
Custom Residence 1
ONESHOP ArchitectureONESHOP Architecture
Expansive hilltop home with views to the exterior from every room. Designed for maximum entertaining space and ease, this home has covered front and back patios the nearly double the living space.
The Foxridge at Tuscarora
The Foxridge at Tuscarora
Mitchell & Best HomesMitchell & Best Homes
Beautiful french doors leading out to the concrete patio offering easy indoor-outdoor access, perfect for entertaining.
WINDERMERE DRIVE EDMONTON
WINDERMERE DRIVE EDMONTON
THADTHAD
Nic and Adams new home
Nic and Adams new home
B Designs Interior'sB Designs Interior's
We had so much fun decorating this space. No detail was too small for Nicole and she understood it would not be completed with every detail for a couple of years, but also that taking her time to fill her home with items of quality that reflected her taste and her families needs were the most important issues. As you can see, her family has settled in.
VILLA CANADA
VILLA CANADA
DISPACE architecture I interior designDISPACE architecture I interior design
Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House
Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House
Thomas StudioThomas Studio
This birds eye view of the house demonstrates the stepped levels and how the design follows the contours of the slope. Each of the three blocks are connected by glazed link spaces. This design has a simple logic to arrange a large house on a sloping site, without the costs of excavating large quantities of material to cut into the slope.
The Foxridge at Tuscarora
The Foxridge at Tuscarora
Mitchell & Best HomesMitchell & Best Homes
Gorgeous semi-custom home surrounded by beautiful greenery and open land. A stone pathway and stairs take you up the spacious front porch overlooking acres of scenic land.
Straight Edge - Exterior
Straight Edge - Exterior
Drewett WorksDrewett Works
Defined by its flat roof and linear structure, this hillside residence features a detached casita accessed via a floating walkway. Project Details // Straight Edge Phoenix, Arizona Architecture: Drewett Works Builder: Sonora West Development Interior design: Laura Kehoe Landscape architecture: Sonoran Landesign Photographer: Laura Moss Pool: Mossman Brothers Pools https://www.drewettworks.com/straight-edge/
2503 Barton Hills
2503 Barton Hills
ParadisaParadisa
The striking front elevation includes a private gated entry, stone accents, and high-contrast black and white color finishes.
Grand Custom Home
Grand Custom Home
FLR DevelopmentsFLR Developments
The Calgary Grand is a 12,000 Sq Ft Custom Home located in the highly sought after community of Bearspaw West of Calgary, Alberta. This Luxury Custom Development leaves nothing to be desired. Boasting larger than life scenic windows, a massive swimming pool, indoor rock waterfalls and a saltwater aquarium to name a few of the features.
Pembroke 2
Pembroke 2
Hanson ArchitectsHanson Architects
VILLA CANADA
VILLA CANADA
DISPACE architecture I interior designDISPACE architecture I interior design
The Sea House, Porth, Cornwall
The Sea House, Porth, Cornwall
The Bazeley PartnershipThe Bazeley Partnership
This extensive, five bedroom family home in a stunning cliff-top location overlooking Porth beach, Newquay, has three mono-pitched slate roof elements designed to break up the roofline and reduce the mass, giving the appearance of smaller structures. The house as been designed to respond to its beach side location and maximise panoramic ocean vistas. Internally, a grand spiral staircase sweeps down to the main, sea-facing, reception areas, which open onto a large terrace that blurs the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. Additional living spaces include a games room and garden room. Leisure facilities integrated into the house include a home bar and swimming pool, with dedicated changing and shower amenities.
211071 Residence
211071 Residence
010110 | Architecture + Urbanism010110 | Architecture + Urbanism
VILLA CANADA
VILLA CANADA
DISPACE architecture I interior designDISPACE architecture I interior design

Expansive House Exterior with a Butterfly Roof 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.
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