Green Blue House Exterior Ideas and Designs
Bergby Construction IncThis home features a single car garage, beautiful landscaping, and a covered entryway to the house. The walkway is complete and flows to the cement driveway.
Alair Homes Green BayCraftsman exterior with tan lineals and columns. Certainteed Thistle Green Siding. Pella windows.
LDa Architecture & InteriorsDeveloper: JP Development Corp
Architect: LDa Architecture & Interiors
Photography: Gregory Premru Photography
UserAnother view of the exterior of this hybrid home. The deck will soon be added. Rustic hand peeled half log is used for the window and door trim. Vertical logs are used for the outside corners with cedar shakes on the upper gables.
Katie Hutchison StudioThis project for a builder husband and interior-designer wife involved adding onto and restoring the luster of a c. 1883 Carpenter Gothic cottage in Barrington that they had occupied for years while raising their two sons. They were ready to ditch their small tacked-on kitchen that was mostly isolated from the rest of the house, views/daylight, as well as the yard, and replace it with something more generous, brighter, and more open that would improve flow inside and out. They were also eager for a better mudroom, new first-floor 3/4 bath, new basement stair, and a new second-floor master suite above.
The design challenge was to conceive of an addition and renovations that would be in balanced conversation with the original house without dwarfing or competing with it. The new cross-gable addition echoes the original house form, at a somewhat smaller scale and with a simplified more contemporary exterior treatment that is sympathetic to the old house but clearly differentiated from it.
Renovations included the removal of replacement vinyl windows by others and the installation of new Pella black clad windows in the original house, a new dormer in one of the son’s bedrooms, and in the addition. At the first-floor interior intersection between the existing house and the addition, two new large openings enhance flow and access to daylight/view and are outfitted with pairs of salvaged oversized clear-finished wooden barn-slider doors that lend character and visual warmth.
A new exterior deck off the kitchen addition leads to a new enlarged backyard patio that is also accessible from the new full basement directly below the addition.
(Interior fit-out and interior finishes/fixtures by the Owners)
Siding & Windows Group LtdSiding & Windows Group remodeled the exterior of this Evanston, IL Home with James HardiePlank Cedarmill Lap Siding and James HardieShingle Straight Edge Siding in ColorPlus Technology Color Mountain Sage and HardieTrim Smooth Boards in ColorPlus Technology Color Sail Cloth on the entire Exterior including Front Porch Entry Way. Also installed Alcoa Soffits.
CG&S Design-BuildOne of the most important things for the homeowners was to maintain the look and feel of the home. The architect felt that the addition should be about continuity, riffing on the idea of symmetry rather than asymmetry. This approach shows off exceptional craftsmanship in the framing of the hip and gable roofs. And while most of the home was going to be touched or manipulated in some way, the front porch, walls and part of the roof remained the same. The homeowners continued with the craftsman style inside, but added their own east coast flare and stylish furnishings. The mix of materials, pops of color and retro touches bring youth to the spaces.
Photography by Tre Dunham
Green Blue House Exterior Ideas and Designs
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