Multi-coloured House Exterior with a Hip Roof Ideas and Designs

Ipswich detached house - substantial side and rear extension

We nearly doubled the floor area of this 1930'2 detached family home to update it for moden living. What looks like a garage is actually a study Photo: Place Photography

Steve Keating

BRB 9 Stadtvilla Urban und ländlich

HGK Hamburger Grundstückskontor GmbH

Wer sagt denn, dass sich Widersprüche ausschließen? Urban und ländlich. Streng und leicht. Für HGK sind das nicht unauflösliche Widersprüche, sondern eine zu bewältigende Herausforderung. Denn wer das richtige Grundstück und die richtige Architektur angeboten bekommt, kann beides zugleich haben. Dieses Haus ist ein Paradebeispiel dafür. Werden wir konkret: Dem Bauherren war einerseits die Nähe zum Flughafen und ein urbanes Umfeld wichtig. Andererseits kam es ihm auf ein Wohnen an, das sich ins ländliche Grüne öffnet. Außerdem wichtig: Das Haus sollte im gewohnten Umfeld gebaut werden, damit die drei Kinder weiter zu Ihrer Schule gehen können. HGK suchte und fand es: das passende Grundstück für diese Vorgaben und auch die Architektur, die HGK zusammen mit dem Bauherrn und dem Architekten entwarf. Sie ist von klarer Strenge, und steht mit ihren Anklängen an die Backsteinmoderne für eine klassische urbane Orientierung. Jedoch löst sich die Strenge im Innenraum zugunsten von großzügigen, transparenten, sehr lichten Räumen völlig auf – und transportieren das grüne Umfeld quasi ins Haus.

6,000 s.f. new single family residence

Calabasas Tudor Remodel

Interior Archaeology

Exterior Tudor Remodel

Dickinson Custom Home

GAP Custom Homes

Front of house from side yard

Foristell, MO New Custom Home

Arrowhead Building Supply, Inc

The roof and dormers of this custom home in Foristell, Mo is a combination of Tamko Heritage shingles in Weathered Wood and Royal double-7 shake shingles in Walnut. The vinyl windows are Simonton 300 brick mold series. The double front entry door is Masonite fiberglass in textured mahogony, with Eclipse bronze hardware.

Coastal on a Golfcourse

Louise Stapleton Interiors

Kirkland West of Market Remodel

Chesmore/Buck Architecture

David Papazian

Custom Deck

Futuras Builders

Cedarbrake Project

Live Oak Houston Builders

Greenville Modern Residence

Goggans Architecture & Interiors

Photography by Rebecca Lehde

upper long lake house

kevin akey - azd associates - michigan

Addey Homes

Bromik Design & Build

Offset House

Amrish Maharaj Architecture

Restored front facade to remove the enclosed porch, rebuild the front fence and tessellated entry path. New paint colours and landscaping.

The Ranch House in Almaden Valley

Carmit Oron Interior Design

The Magnolia, Elevation A

Best Homes

1680 Potomac Drive At Best Homes, we have a wide variety of floorplans available with customizable options throughout your dream home. We don’t, and won’t, take short cuts in our construction process, nor will we substitute lesser materials and labor costs to compete with lower priced builders. Our pricing is simply based on a percentage over the cost of construction. Our customers appreciate our transparent, no non-sense approach to helping them find the right design and amenity level to fit their desired price point. Stock plans or custom designs, your lot or ours, building with Best Custom Homes is a choice you’ll be glad you made.

Entheogenic Design

The Vrindavan Project

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Multi-coloured House Exterior with a Hip 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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