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Idyllic Modern
Idyllic Modern
David Thorne Landscape ArchitectDavid Thorne Landscape Architect
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Orum Residence
Orum Residence
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The Savannah: Best of Ohio Custom Home Over 5,000 SF
The Savannah: Best of Ohio Custom Home Over 5,000 SF
Justin Doyle HomesJustin Doyle Homes
This gorgeous modern farmhouse features hardie board board and batten siding with stunning black framed Pella windows. The soffit lighting accents each gable perfectly and creates the perfect farmhouse.
Modern Lakeview
Modern Lakeview
Sophisticate InteriorsSophisticate Interiors
Lupton Residence
Lupton Residence
William S. Briggs Architect p.l.l.c.William S. Briggs Architect p.l.l.c.
215 MacFarlane Drive | Delray Beach, Florida
215 MacFarlane Drive | Delray Beach, Florida
Seaside Builders Of Delray Beach, FloridaSeaside Builders Of Delray Beach, Florida
Exterior Front
Timber Frame Home, 2700sqft, 4 bedrooms
Timber Frame Home, 2700sqft, 4 bedrooms
Lynn Palmer Architects LtdLynn Palmer Architects Ltd
Timber Framed 2,700sq ft family home
Brick Barn Case Study
Brick Barn Case Study
SWR GroupSWR Group
Extensive renovation has transformed Brick Barn into a luxury modern property worth upwards of £1,000,000. The interior is light and airy throughout with beautiful views of the surrounding countryside. This coupled with unique details such as vintage industrial lighting, exposed timbers and underfloor heating makes Brick Barn a truly desirable family home.
Organic Modern Mountain Home
Organic Modern Mountain Home
Living Stone Design + BuildLiving Stone Design + Build
Transitional Exterior
Transitional Exterior
Exteriors
Exteriors
Chiott Custom Homes, Inc.Chiott Custom Homes, Inc.
New England Stone Farmhouse in Los Angeles, CA
New England Stone Farmhouse in Los Angeles, CA
Ward Jewell Architect AIAWard Jewell Architect AIA
Ward Jewell, AIA was asked to design a comfortable one-story stone and wood pool house that was "barn-like" in keeping with the owner’s gentleman farmer concept. Thus, Mr. Jewell was inspired to create an elegant New England Stone Farm House designed to provide an exceptional environment for them to live, entertain, cook and swim in the large reflection lap pool. Mr. Jewell envisioned a dramatic vaulted great room with hand selected 200 year old reclaimed wood beams and 10 foot tall pocketing French doors that would connect the house to a pool, deck areas, loggia and lush garden spaces, thus bringing the outdoors in. A large cupola “lantern clerestory” in the main vaulted ceiling casts a natural warm light over the graceful room below. The rustic walk-in stone fireplace provides a central focal point for the inviting living room lounge. Important to the functionality of the pool house are a chef’s working farm kitchen with open cabinetry, free-standing stove and a soapstone topped central island with bar height seating. Grey washed barn doors glide open to reveal a vaulted and beamed quilting room with full bath and a vaulted and beamed library/guest room with full bath that bookend the main space. The private garden expanded and evolved over time. After purchasing two adjacent lots, the owners decided to redesign the garden and unify it by eliminating the tennis court, relocating the pool and building an inspired "barn". The concept behind the garden’s new design came from Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello with its wandering paths, orchards, and experimental vegetable garden. As a result this small organic farm, was born. Today the farm produces more than fifty varieties of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers; many of which are rare and hard to find locally. The farm also grows a wide variety of fruits including plums, pluots, nectarines, apricots, apples, figs, peaches, guavas, avocados (Haas, Fuerte and Reed), olives, pomegranates, persimmons, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and ten different types of citrus. The remaining areas consist of drought-tolerant sweeps of rosemary, lavender, rockrose, and sage all of which attract butterflies and dueling hummingbirds. Photo Credit: Laura Hull Photography. Interior Design: Jeffrey Hitchcock. Landscape Design: Laurie Lewis Design. General Contractor: Martin Perry Premier General Contractors
Margate Beach House - Margate, NJ
Margate Beach House - Margate, NJ
Rhonda Sacks InteriorsRhonda Sacks Interiors
Beautiful Beach Home with views of the ocean.
Front Porch Entry
Front Porch Entry
Meyer DesignMeyer Design
This stunning black double door provides a great front entry contrast against the whtie siding on this elegant farmhouse with wrap around porch. Meyer Design
Modern Farmhouse - Durham, NC
Modern Farmhouse - Durham, NC
Lisle Architecture & DesignLisle Architecture & Design
Parade of Homes Gold Winner This 7,500 modern farmhouse style home was designed for a busy family with young children. The family lives over three floors including home theater, gym, playroom, and a hallway with individual desk for each child. From the farmhouse front, the house transitions to a contemporary oasis with large modern windows, a covered patio, and room for a pool.
Eastmoreland Dutch Colonial Addition
Eastmoreland Dutch Colonial Addition
McCall Design LLCMcCall Design LLC
Stephen Cridland Photography
Home in Hampton Lake
Home in Hampton Lake
Coastal Signature HomesCoastal Signature Homes
This is a beautiful exterior front shot of this lowcountry cottage home in Bluffton South Carolina. We have the gorgeous stacked stone steps and columns, giving the home a great look and a nice wide front porch. The porch has a painted plank floor. The gray siding is a James Hardie product, Hardie Shingle, for a great look and durability. White working shutters, the glass fronted mahogany door and the combination of wall mounted sconces and pendant lighting give this home a comfortable, welcoming appearance. Come on in!
Mid-Century Modern Mother-In-Law Suite Addition
Mid-Century Modern Mother-In-Law Suite Addition
Kustom Home DesignKustom Home Design
Addition is an In-Law suite that can double as a pool house or guest suite. Massing, details and materials match the existing home to make the addition look like it was always here. New cedar siding and accents help to update the facade of the existing home. The addition was designed to seamlessly marry with the existing house and provide a covered entertaining area off the pool deck and covered spa. Photos By: Kimberly Kerl, Kustom Home Design. All rights reserved
COASTAL LIVING HAMPTONS SHOWHOUSE
COASTAL LIVING HAMPTONS SHOWHOUSE
MarvinMarvin
2016 Coastal Living magazine's Hamptons Showhouse // Exterior view with pool
Summit Park House
Summit Park House
Stephenson Design CollectiveStephenson Design Collective
Andrew Pogue Photography

Large and Expansive House Exterior 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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