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Martis Camp Lot 640
Martis Camp Lot 640
Kelly & Stone ArchitectsKelly & Stone Architects
Roger Wade Studio
WESTLEY™ PASTORAL
WESTLEY™ PASTORAL
ORIJIN STONE, LLCORIJIN STONE, LLC
Nestled on 90 acres of peaceful prairie land, this modern rustic home blends indoor and outdoor spaces with natural stone materials and long, beautiful views. Featuring ORIJIN STONE's Westley™ Limestone veneer on both the interior and exterior, as well as our Tupelo™ Limestone interior tile, pool and patio paving. Architecture: Rehkamp Larson Architects Inc Builder: Hagstrom Builders Landscape Architecture: Savanna Designs, Inc Landscape Install: Landscape Renovations MN Masonry: Merlin Goble Masonry Inc Interior Tile Installation: Diamond Edge Tile Interior Design: Martin Patrick 3 Photography: Scott Amundson Photography
Oravetz Summer Home North Carolina
Oravetz Summer Home North Carolina
Darling Residential Architecture and DesignDarling Residential Architecture and Design
Located in far West North Carolina this soft Contemporary styled home is the perfect retreat. Judicious use of natural locally sourced stone and Cedar siding as well as steel beams help this one of a kind home really stand out from the crowd.
Crenshaw Residence
Crenshaw Residence
Jordan Iverson Signature HomesJordan Iverson Signature Homes
Modern home in the Pacific Northwest, located in Eugene, Oregon. Double car garage with a lot of windows for natural sunlight.
YC Residence
YC Residence
North Fork Builders of Montana, Inc.North Fork Builders of Montana, Inc.
Photography - LongViews Studios
Whole Home Remodel - Silver Lake
Whole Home Remodel - Silver Lake
Winston Brown RemodelingWinston Brown Remodeling
This home has plenty of room to enjoy the outdoors. The spacious outdoor living area boasts an outdoor kitchen and bar, large patio with fire pit, as well as an expansive deck with seating area and a stone fireplace. Structural features tie into the interior's rustic charm.
Greenville, SC | South Hampton
Greenville, SC | South Hampton
Milestone Custom HomesMilestone Custom Homes
Stately exterior with combination of both hand split real stone and brick, this home features Jeld Wen Windows a Sapele Mahogany door with a cast stone surround. Land Mark Certain Teed shingles top the home while the detached garage and porte cochere really deliver the pronouncement in elevation the home owners were looking for. Concrete aprons begin and end the courtyard driveway.
New Hampshire Snow and Lake Lodge
New Hampshire Snow and Lake Lodge
MossCreekMossCreek
This beautiful lake and snow lodge site on the waters edge of Lake Sunapee, and only one mile from Mt Sunapee Ski and Snowboard Resort. The home features conventional and timber frame construction. MossCreek's exquisite use of exterior materials include poplar bark, antique log siding with dovetail corners, hand cut timber frame, barn board siding and local river stone piers and foundation. Inside, the home features reclaimed barn wood walls, floors and ceilings.
Manor Road Residence
Manor Road Residence
Aspect Design BuildAspect Design Build
spacecrafting
Waterside Way
Waterside Way
Wright DesignWright Design
Perched on a knoll atop a lakeside peninsula, this transitional home combines English manor-inspired details with more contemporary design elements. The exterior is constructed from Doggett Mountain stone, tumbled brick and wavy edge siding topped with a slate roof. The front porch with limestone surround leads to quietly luxurious interiors featuring plaster walls and white oak floors, and highlighted by limestone accents and hand-wrought iron lighting.
SR Ski House
SR Ski House
Rob Bramhall ArchitectsRob Bramhall Architects
Irvin Serrano
Sunnyside Ridge
Sunnyside Ridge
Aspen Design RoomAspen Design Room
The stone and timber construction designed with clean lines and sleek accents make this home the definition of mountain modern design.
Mountain Modern Music | Evening Exterior
Mountain Modern Music | Evening Exterior
Dovetail ConstructionDovetail Construction
Lake Stone
Lake Stone
Carter Skinner Residential DesignCarter Skinner Residential Design
A classicist with an artist’s vision, Carter Skinner ultimately derives his inspiration from the daily lives of his clients. Whether designing a coastal home, country estate, city home or historic home renovation, Carter pairs his architectural design expertise with the preferences of his clients to design a home that will truly enhance their lives.
Northern Exposure // Front Exterior from Left
Northern Exposure // Front Exterior from Left
Drewett WorksDrewett Works
This homage to prairie style architecture located at The Rim Golf Club in Payson, Arizona was designed for owner/builder/landscaper Tom Beck. This home appears literally fastened to the site by way of both careful design as well as a lichen-loving organic material palatte. Forged from a weathering steel roof (aka Cor-Ten), hand-formed cedar beams, laser cut steel fasteners, and a rugged stacked stone veneer base, this home is the ideal northern Arizona getaway. Expansive covered terraces offer views of the Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish designed golf course, the largest stand of Ponderosa Pines in the US, as well as the majestic Mogollon Rim and Stewart Mountains, making this an ideal place to beat the heat of the Valley of the Sun. Designing a personal dwelling for a builder is always an honor for us. Thanks, Tom, for the opportunity to share your vision. Project Details | Northern Exposure, The Rim – Payson, AZ Architect: C.P. Drewett, AIA, NCARB, Drewett Works, Scottsdale, AZ Builder: Thomas Beck, LTD, Scottsdale, AZ Photographer: Dino Tonn, Scottsdale, AZ
Highcamp Residence
Highcamp Residence
Design Associates - Lynette Zambon, Carol MericaDesign Associates - Lynette Zambon, Carol Merica
Exterior of transitional mountain home with inviting hot tub.
Stone Cottage
Stone Cottage
TKP ArchitectsTKP Architects
This award-winning and intimate cottage was rebuilt on the site of a deteriorating outbuilding. Doubling as a custom jewelry studio and guest retreat, the cottage’s timeless design was inspired by old National Parks rough-stone shelters that the owners had fallen in love with. A single living space boasts custom built-ins for jewelry work, a Murphy bed for overnight guests, and a stone fireplace for warmth and relaxation. A cozy loft nestles behind rustic timber trusses above. Expansive sliding glass doors open to an outdoor living terrace overlooking a serene wooded meadow. Photos by: Emily Minton Redfield
Woodland Point Main House
Woodland Point Main House
Carl VernlundCarl Vernlund
Afton Timber Frame Retreat
Afton Timber Frame Retreat
Smith & Robertson, Inc.Smith & Robertson, Inc.
Sitting atop a mountain, this Timberpeg timber frame vacation retreat offers rustic elegance with shingle-sided splendor, warm rich colors and textures, and natural quality materials.
Amazing Mountain Home View: Custom Iron Doors & Windows
Amazing Mountain Home View: Custom Iron Doors & Windows
Clark Hall DoorsClark Hall Doors
Enjoy the mountain air and the spectacular view through the lens of these fully custom iron doors and windows.

Luxury Rustic 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 rustic 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 rustic 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 rustic 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 rustic 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 rustic exterior architecture choices for your house designs.
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