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Luxury House Exterior with a Butterfly Roof Ideas and Designs

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Village Dr
Village Dr
Catalyst ConstructionCatalyst Construction
black and white exterior with an amazing modern look. Blue door and exposed wooden beams tie everything together perfectly.
Wingspan
Wingspan
Rhodes Architecture + LightRhodes Architecture + Light
Wingspan adjoins a community park, opening to an eastern entry court, southern recreation/gardening court, and park greenspace to the west. The house is organized on five half-levels set effortlessly around a central atrium/stair lightwell, dividing the spaces inside horizontally + vertically. Playful roofs and forms reflect one of the owner’s mid-century modern boyhood homes. Work, play, guest + community, and sleeping spaces for a family of five focus on gathering and orienting toward views, landscaped courts, and a glass and steel circulation core.
Monterey Boulevard
Monterey Boulevard
Joseph Spierer Architects, Inc.Joseph Spierer Architects, Inc.
The upper level of the building boasts a striking butterfly roof that is equipped with clerestory windows to allow for natural light and refreshing ocean breezes.
The Monarca
The Monarca
Affinity Homes LLCAffinity Homes LLC
Napa Valley Vineyard Retreat
Napa Valley Vineyard Retreat
4 Seasons Construction Services4 Seasons Construction Services
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
Modern Skillion Roof Family Home
Modern Skillion Roof Family Home
Yvonne Svensson Architectural ServicesYvonne Svensson Architectural Services
Skillion Roof Design , front porch, sandstone blade column
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.
Awbrey Butte Mountain Modern
Awbrey Butte Mountain Modern
Pacwest Builders LLCPacwest Builders LLC
W 49th Residence
W 49th Residence
Workshop No. 5Workshop No. 5
Rustic Contemporary on the Lake
Rustic Contemporary on the Lake
RDM ArchitectureRDM Architecture
Large glass makes for spectacular views. An angled upper and lower patio gives multiple outdoor spaces. Custom steel braces and a wood ceiling and a large overhang protects the windows from the sun. Photos: © 2020 Matt Kocourek, All Rights Reserved
Modern Rustic Sugar Bowl House
Modern Rustic Sugar Bowl House
Staprans DesignStaprans Design
Model Home at Village at Seven Desert Mountain - Back Exterior
Model Home at Village at Seven Desert Mountain - Back Exterior
Drewett WorksDrewett Works
A view from the 11th hole of No. 7 at Desert Mountain golf course reveals the stunning architecture of this impressive home, which received a 2021 Gold Nugget award for Drewett Works. The Village at Seven Desert Mountain—Scottsdale Architecture: Drewett Works Builder: Cullum Homes Interiors: Ownby Design Landscape: Greey | Pickett Photographer: Dino Tonn https://www.drewettworks.com/the-model-home-at-village-at-seven-desert-mountain/
Awbrey Butte Mountain Modern
Awbrey Butte Mountain Modern
Pacwest Builders LLCPacwest Builders LLC
Butterfly House
Butterfly House
Edmunds Studios Photography, Inc.Edmunds Studios Photography, Inc.
Unique, angled roof line defines this house
Charles Rose Architects Inc.
Charles Rose Architects Inc.
Charles Rose Architects Inc.Charles Rose Architects Inc.
Exterior; Photo Credit: Bruce Martin
The Hide, Bude, Cornwall
The Hide, Bude, Cornwall
The Bazeley PartnershipThe Bazeley Partnership
The Hide is a stunning, two-storey residential dwelling sitting above a Nature Reserve in the coastal resort of Bude. Replacing an existing house of no architectural merit, the new design evolved a central core with two wings responding to site context by angling the wing elements outwards away from the core, allowing the occupiers to experience and take in the panoramic views. The large-glazed areas of the southern façade and slot windows horizontally and vertically aligned capture views all-round the dwelling. Low-angled, mono-pitched, zinc standing seam roofs were used to contain the impact of the new building on its sensitive setting, with the roofs extending and overhanging some three feet beyond the dwelling walls, sheltering and covering the new building. The roofs were designed to mimic the undulating contours of the site when viewed from surrounding vantage points, concealing and absorbing this modern form into the landscape. The Hide Was the winner of the South West Region LABC Building Excellence Award 2020 for ‘Best Individual New Home’. Photograph: Rob Colwill
NW Hills Mid-Century Modern
NW Hills Mid-Century Modern
Mosier Luxury HomesMosier Luxury Homes
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.
Christmas Lights House
Christmas Lights House
Diamond Outdoor LightingDiamond Outdoor Lighting

Luxury 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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