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Traditional Grey House Exterior Ideas and Designs

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Pittsburgh Everlast Siding home
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Lakeville, MA Vinyl Siding & Replacement Windows Project
Care Free Homes, Inc.Care Free Homes, Inc.
This Lakeville, MA home is now maintenance free and ready for New England weather with vinyl siding & replacement windows! vinyl siding and replacement windows lakeville maOur crew started by stripping off the old siding and replacing all rotted wood. The entire house was then wrapped with Typar and 19 Harvey Classic replacement windows were installed. Mastic Carvedwood 44 vinyl siding in Granite Gray was installed on the whole home along with 17 Harvey Classic replacement windows and 2 picture windows. Aluminum trim was installed on all windows, doors, soffit, and fascia as well as white corner posts, and all new gutters and downspouts. The homeowner eliminated the need to paint every 3-4 years with Mastic’s Carvedwood 44 vinyl siding. Manufactured to look like a natural, painted cedar clapboard, this vinyl siding is both durable, fade-resistant and maintenance free! The windows throughout the home were replaced with Harvey Classic vinyl replacement windows (We’re also a Harvey Elite Series Window Dealer!). The homeowner chose the 8 over 8 grid pattern. Each window is energy star rated and filled with low E argon gas to reduce cooling and heating costs. The Harvey Classic also features easy fingertip operation and tilt-in sashes for easy cleaning.
Buckhead- Custom Home on East Wood Valley Rd
Buckhead- Custom Home on East Wood Valley Rd
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Timberline Drive Single-Family Residence
Timberline Drive Single-Family Residence
Michael Hershenson ArchitectsMichael Hershenson Architects
Track Home Additon & Remodeling in Rapid City, SD
Track Home Additon & Remodeling in Rapid City, SD
Baffuto ArchitectturaBaffuto Architecttura
A completely transformed entrance and exterior to a traditional track home in the suburbs using stone and exterior insulation finish system (stucco).
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Classic Mead Point Stone Manor
Significant Homes LLCSignificant Homes LLC
Photography by Keith Scott Morton From grand estates, to exquisite country homes, to whole house renovations, the quality and attention to detail of a "Significant Homes" custom home is immediately apparent. Full time on-site supervision, a dedicated office staff and hand picked professional craftsmen are the team that take you from groundbreaking to occupancy. Every "Significant Homes" project represents 45 years of luxury homebuilding experience, and a commitment to quality widely recognized by architects, the press and, most of all....thoroughly satisfied homeowners. Our projects have been published in Architectural Digest 6 times along with many other publications and books. Though the lion share of our work has been in Fairfield and Westchester counties, we have built homes in Palm Beach, Aspen, Maine, Nantucket and Long Island.
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The home on this beautiful property was transformed into a classic American style beauty with the addition of two outdoor pavilions and feature chippendale balustrade.
Grey Slate Hardie Shingle + Board & Batten Siding | Creve Coeur, MO. (63141)
Grey Slate Hardie Shingle + Board & Batten Siding | Creve Coeur, MO. (63141)
Siding Express (Maintenance Free Siding)Siding Express (Maintenance Free Siding)
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Vinyl Siding
Vinyl Siding
Johnson County Siding & Window Co., Inc.Johnson County Siding & Window Co., Inc.
Front - Stone & James Hardie Evening Blue & Arctic White, with Andersen Windows
Front - Stone & James Hardie Evening Blue & Arctic White, with Andersen Windows
Opal Enterprises, Inc.Opal Enterprises, Inc.
Front view of a Naperville home with Stone around the bottom, James Hardie HardiePlank siding in Evening Blue with Arctic White trim around Andersen Windows. Installed by Opal Enterprises.
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Stacked Stone Mailbox
SO | HomeSO | Home
Stacked stone mailbox made using Eldorado Stone products. Color of stacked stone is Nantucket.
James Hardie - Garrison Woods
James Hardie - Garrison Woods
SIS Exterior RenovationsSIS Exterior Renovations
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CertainTeed Vinyl Siding CT - Stratford CT
CertainTeed Vinyl Siding CT - Stratford CT
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Traditional Grey 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 traditional 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 traditional 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 traditional 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 traditional 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 traditional exterior architecture choices for your house designs.
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