Large and Brown House Exterior Ideas and Designs

House Exterior

capella arquitectura, rafaelvargas

The client brief was to undertake alterations of an existing family home on the cliff top edge of Rothesay Bay on Auckland's North Shore. The design provides a modern four bedroom home, designed around the existing garage and building footprint, with a new master bedroom with a discrete lounge attached. Photography by DRAW Photography Limited

Entwurf und Bau: Christian Stolz / Foto: Frank Jasper

One of our favourite projects so far was the complete renovation of this five-bedroomed, Grade II listed, family home. From restoring the original parquet flooring to extending the kitchen and landscaping the garden every part of this property was transformed. Photos: Hamptons International

Foto: Aline Stücher https://wolfsgrube.de/

The garden front showing major extensions

Fringe Dweller’s sculpted extension transforms an unassuming weatherboard cottage into a proud forever home. It walks multiple tightropes at once: balancing openness with privacy, strength with softness, and a rich history with our clients’ future needs. On Clifton Hill’s suburban edge, the house sits opposite the leafy Quarries Park Reserve. Our clients, Ishtar and Craig, have three children and purchased their cottage to create a long-term family home. Lying within a heritage overlay, the cottage’s traditional layout is largely preserved – only tweaked, in a wise parenting move, to form three equally sized bedrooms. The extension’s shared spaces feature rich materials, a warm palette and curved edges, creating a feeling of softness and easing transitions between zones. A staircase arcing through the living areas leads up to the lounge and main suite. Elevated above street level, these spaces can more freely relate to the park: the lounge’s attached balcony overlooks the park’s open field, while the main bedroom’s floor-to-ceiling window frames magnificent foliage. Downstairs, sliding doors connect the living areas to a semi-covered deck, while the garden beyond is embraced by a self-contained studio at the rear and high walls on either side. A brick wall interspersed with permeable screens lines the site’s public edge, balancing backyard privacy with neighbourhood connection. For passers-by, it’s a strong addition to the streetscape, granting glimpses of the lush garden within. Fringe Dweller embraces its presence on the fringe of the parklands, balancing its historical context with its future as a nurturing family home.

Stéphane DELIGNY

Ben Hosking

A Victorian semi-detached house in Wimbledon has been remodelled and transformed into a modern family home, including extensive underpinning and extensions at lower ground floor level in order to form a large open-plan space. Photographer: Nick Smith

Thick Moorish laser cut and powder coated automated gate. Decorative boundary fence panels by Entanglements clad onto a sliding automatic gate.

Roundhouse matt lacquer Urbo handleless bespoke kitchen in Dulux 20YY 650 48. Bespoke colourblocked glass splashback. Worksurfaces in polished Silestone Altair. Extension by Paul Wiggins Architects.