House Exterior with a Metal Roof and a Brown Roof Ideas and Designs

Los Gatos Farmhouse

Peter Vincent Architects

Custom Home Alamo

Joe Pucci

Alamo Year Yard

The House That Patience Built

McCabe By Design LLC

A mixture of dual gray board and baton and lap siding, vertical cedar siding and soffits along with black windows and dark brown metal roof gives the exterior of the house texture and character will reducing maintenance needs.

Waccabuc, NY - Standing Seam Metal

Connecticut Roofcrafters Llc

Side view of a replacement metal roof on the primary house and breezeway of this expansive residence in Waccabuc, New York. The uncluttered and sleek lines of this mid-century modern residence combined with organic, geometric forms to create numerous ridges and valleys which had to be taken into account during the installation. Further, numerous protrusions had to be navigated and flashed. We specified and installed Englert 24 gauge steel in matte black to compliment the dark brown siding of this residence. All in, this installation required 6,300 square feet of standing seam steel.

Pettit & Sevitt Revival

Light House Architecture & Science

East Coast Inspired Cabin

Interior Design by Julie Johnson-Holland

Contemporary Residence & Pool House

Marc Newman Architect

New pool house with exposed wood beams, modern flat roof & red cedar siding.

Awendaw Retreat

St. Pierre Construction

Exterior of a modern, marshfront home featuring louvered ground floor storage, all stucco exteriors, large custom copper lanterns, Marvin bronze clas windows and a hand-crimped bronze metal roof.

Bridge House

HAUS | Architecture For Modern Lifestyles

West Fin Wall Exterior Elevation highlights pine wood ceiling continuing from exterior to interior - Bridge House - Fenneville, Michigan - Lake Michigan, Saugutuck, Michigan, Douglas Michigan - HAUS | Architecture For Modern Lifestyles

MCM Look / Blending Materials

Princeton Design Collaborative

photo by Jeffery Edward Tryon

New Boathouse @ Lake Lorman

Samantha Smith Designs

Studio Hideaway

Delbert Adams Construction Group

Exterior view of rustic garage/guest house/studio/home gym, showing brown board-and-batten siding on first story, and random width cedar shake siding on second story.

Estate - Park City (46)

Magleby Construction

Whidbey Island Farmhouse

DeForest Architects

morning terrace facing the pasture with large sliding doors to the main living spaces and view beyond

Cliff Ranch

MMW Architects

Mulberry Modern

Fairview Custom Homes

Mulberry Modern

Fairview Custom Homes

Moab Modern

cityhomeCOLLECTIVE

Oxidized metal clad desert modern home in Moab, Utah. Design: cityhomeCOLLECTIVE Architecture: Studio Upwall Builder: Eco Logic Design Build

House R

KiiPA architecture

A bronze cladded extension with a distinctive form in a conservation area, the new extension complements the character of the Queen Anne style Victorian house, and yet contemporary in its design and choice of materials.

Sky Mountain Ranch

Asher Custom Homes

This stunning timber frame mountain lodge with expansive views of the Animas River valley provides complete privacy — perfect for a tranquil getaway. This home has incredible and unique details including private river access, a private pond and waterfall, reclaimed wood flooring from a French cathedral, a custom glass encased wine room, a sauna, and expansive outdoor space with a gourmet chef’s kitchen.

House Exterior with a Metal Roof and a Brown 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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