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Contemporary Farmhouse
Contemporary Farmhouse
Tindall Architecture WorkshopTindall Architecture Workshop
Kenny Street House, Balwyn North
Kenny Street House, Balwyn North
Chan Architecture Pty LtdChan Architecture Pty Ltd
External View
West Seattle Modern Farmhouse
West Seattle Modern Farmhouse
Blue Sound Construction, Inc.Blue Sound Construction, Inc.
Exterior of all new home built on original foundation. Builder: Blue Sound Construction, Inc. Design: MAKE Design Photo: Miranda Estes Photography
Barnfield
Barnfield
Modus VivendiModus Vivendi
TPR Ranch
TPR Ranch
inContourinContour
Front Entry. Sustainable Landscape Architecture design. Naturalistic design style, highlighting the architecture and situating the home in it's natural landscape within the first growing season. Large Private Ranch in Emigrant, Montana. Architecture by Formescent Architects | Photography by Jon Menezes
Contemporary New Custom Home in Los Altos
Contemporary New Custom Home in Los Altos
Spaces By Juliana Linssen, Inc.Spaces By Juliana Linssen, Inc.
Model Home Belleterre, Huntersville
Model Home Belleterre, Huntersville
AR HOMES - CHARLOTTE AND LAKE NORMANAR HOMES - CHARLOTTE AND LAKE NORMAN
STUNNING MODEL HOME IN HUNTERSVILLE
The Perfectly Imperfect Farmhouse
The Perfectly Imperfect Farmhouse
GLDESIGNGLDESIGN
Sometimes what you’re looking for is right in your own backyard. This is what our Darien Reno Project homeowners decided as we launched into a full house renovation beginning in 2017. The project lasted about one year and took the home from 2700 to 4000 square feet.
Copper Mountain Residence
Copper Mountain Residence
PLAADPLAAD
High-ceiling 4 bedroom multi-level Holiday Home in Ramsgate, Kent
High-ceiling 4 bedroom multi-level Holiday Home in Ramsgate, Kent
Smith Studios LtdSmith Studios Ltd
Drone photo - High-ceiling 4 multi-level Holiday Home in Ramsgate, Kent
Watermark at Bearspaw | Farmhouse - Front Entry
Watermark at Bearspaw | Farmhouse - Front Entry
Andison Residential DesignAndison Residential Design
Front Entry Custom Modern Farmhouse Calgary, Alberta
Cherokee Circle: Transitional Craftsman Home
Cherokee Circle: Transitional Craftsman Home
Timberlake Custom HomesTimberlake Custom Homes
This custom home beautifully blends craftsman, modern farmhouse, and traditional elements together. The Craftsman style is evident in the exterior siding, gable roof, and columns. The interior has both farmhouse touches (barn doors) and transitional (lighting and colors).
Scandinavian Modern Exterior
Scandinavian Modern Exterior
10K Architecture10K Architecture
10K designed this new construction home for a family of four who relocated to a serene, tranquil, and heavily wooded lot in Shorewood. Careful siting of the home preserves existing trees, is sympathetic to existing topography and drainage of the site, and maximizes views from gathering spaces and bedrooms to the lake. Simple forms with a bold black exterior finish contrast the light and airy interior spaces and finishes. Sublime moments and connections to nature are created through the use of floor to ceiling windows, long axial sight lines through the house, skylights, a breezeway between buildings, and a variety of spaces for work, play, and relaxation.
Lakehouse Project - British Columbia
Lakehouse Project - British Columbia
ZWADA homeZWADA home
Interior Design : ZWADA home Interiors & Design Architectural Design : Bronson Design Builder: Kellton Contracting Ltd. Photography: Paul Grdina
Villa Coublay
Villa Coublay
Srote & Co Architects | Planners | InteriorsSrote & Co Architects | Planners | Interiors
French country chateau, Villa Coublay, is set amid a beautiful wooded backdrop. Native stone veneer with red brick accents, stained cypress shutters, and timber-framed columns and brackets add to this estate's charm and authenticity. A twelve-foot tall family room ceiling allows for expansive glass at the southern wall taking advantage of the forest view and providing passive heating in the winter months. A largely open plan design puts a modern spin on the classic French country exterior creating an unexpected juxtaposition, inspiring awe upon entry.
Dream Home 2020
Dream Home 2020
Atwood Custom HomesAtwood Custom Homes
expansive single story custom home designed to bring the outdoor inside with views from every angle of this home. Its an entertainers dream house and this years 2020 Dream Home.
Holland Hills
Holland Hills
Lindon Homes Pty LtdLindon Homes Pty Ltd
Modern three level home with large timber look window screes an random stone cladding.
Parkdale Lone Fir
Parkdale Lone Fir
Guggenheim Architecture + Design StudioGuggenheim Architecture + Design Studio
Los Gatos Farmhouse
Los Gatos Farmhouse
Peter Vincent ArchitectsPeter Vincent Architects
Traditional Brick Classic Home with White Trim and Black Shutters
Traditional Brick Classic Home with White Trim and Black Shutters
Paper Moon PaintingPaper Moon Painting
On this elegant traditional brick home, we painted the front door and shutters in Sherwin Williams "Tricorn Black", and all other trim in Benjamin Moore "Pure White". Love the arched door pediment!

Large 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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