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Rustic Two Floor House Exterior Ideas and Designs

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Wildwood Holt
Wildwood Holt
Unique HomestaysUnique Homestays
Mount Vernon View
Mount Vernon View
Wiedemann Architects LLCWiedemann Architects LLC
View of home at dusk.
Priest Lake Cabin
Priest Lake Cabin
Marie-Dominique Verdier, photographerMarie-Dominique Verdier, photographer
photo © Marie-Dominique Verdier
Bozeman Barn
Bozeman Barn
Rustic Wood HubRustic Wood Hub
Darby Ask Photography Corral Board siding
The Dockside Model
The Dockside Model
Dillard-Jones Builders, LLCDillard-Jones Builders, LLC
Inspiro 8
Homearama 2014
Homearama 2014
Carini Engineering DesignsCarini Engineering Designs
"Rustic-Luxe" Guest House
"Rustic-Luxe" Guest House
Fred Parker Company, Inc.Fred Parker Company, Inc.
The owners of this beautiful home and property discovered talents of the Fred Parker Company "Design-Build" team on Houzz.com. Their dream was to completely restore and renovate an old barn into a new luxury guest house for parties and to accommodate their out of town family / / This photo features Pella French doors, stone base columns, and large flagstone walk.
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
Morrison Mountain Home | Cedar to James Hardie WoodTone Rustic
Morrison Mountain Home | Cedar to James Hardie WoodTone Rustic
BellwetherBellwether
This home in Morrison, Colorado had aging cedar siding, which is a common sight in the Rocky Mountains. The cedar siding was deteriorating due to deferred maintenance. Colorado Siding Repair removed all of the aging siding and trim and installed James Hardie WoodTone Rustic siding to provide optimum protection for this home against extreme Rocky Mountain weather. This home's transformation is shocking! We love helping Colorado homeowners maximize their investment by protecting for years to come.
Lower Whitefish Lake 10
Lower Whitefish Lake 10
Lands End Development - Designers & BuildersLands End Development - Designers & Builders
Hearthside
Hearthside
4 Forty Four4 Forty Four
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
Cottage on the Green at Candle Lake
Cottage on the Green at Candle Lake
UserUser
76 Brassie
76 Brassie
Aaron Fine Architectural PhotographerAaron Fine Architectural Photographer
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.
Hunt Road Renovation
Hunt Road Renovation
Woodside DevelopmentWoodside Development
Spivy Submit
Spivy Submit
Custom Audio VideoCustom Audio Video
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.

Rustic Two Floor 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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