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Traditional White House Exterior Ideas and Designs

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Dreamy Contemporary Craftsman Home
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Tempo Side Load
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Whitetail project
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pearl gray sided home with stone water table and a separate cottage home connected by a breezeway
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Transitional Exterior
Oak Park, IL Craftsman Style James Hardie Siding Remodel
Oak Park, IL Craftsman Style James Hardie Siding Remodel
Siding & Windows Group LtdSiding & Windows Group Ltd
Craftsman Style House in Oak Park Exterior Remodel, IL. Siding & Windows Group installed James HardiePlank Select Cedarmill Lap Siding in ColorPlus Technology Colors Khaki Brown and HardieShingle StraightEdge Siding in ColorPlus Technology Color Timber Bark for a beautiful mix. We installed HardieTrim Smooth Boards in ColorPlus Technology Color Countrylane Red. Also remodeled Front Entry Porch and Built the back Cedar Deck. Homeowners love their transformation.
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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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Longridge Estates
Jon Brouse AIA & Associates, Inc.Jon Brouse AIA & Associates, Inc.
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Custom Home - Pacific NW
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DC First floor furnishings and kitchen
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Craftsman Charm in Santa Clara
Craftsman Charm in Santa Clara
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Empire Real Thin Stone Veneer Exterior Wainscoting
Empire Real Thin Stone Veneer Exterior Wainscoting
Quarry MillQuarry Mill
Empire real thin stone veneer from the Quarry Mill pairs beautifully with the white exterior and clean lines of this residential home for a stunning modern take on a traditional design. Empire natural stone veneer consists of mild shades of gray and a consistent sandstone texture. This stone comes in various sizes of mostly rectangular-shaped stones with squared edges. Empire is a great stone to create a brick wall layout but still create a natural look and feel. As a result, it works well for large and small projects like accent walls, exterior siding, and features like mailboxes. The light colors will blend well with any décor and provide a neutral backing to any space.
Tower Court Custom
Tower Court Custom
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Whole House Renovation
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San Juan Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano
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Greenlake New Construction
Greenlake New Construction
Urban Oasis Design & Construction LLCUrban Oasis Design & Construction LLC
This permable paver driveway was laid beautifully across a complicated slope. William Wright Photography
Classic Clapboard Residence
Classic Clapboard Residence
DHMurray ArchitectureDHMurray Architecture
Classic White Clapboard Home on Long Island
Custom Home 2016
Custom Home 2016
Thorson Restoration & ConstructionThorson Restoration & Construction
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Bahama Porch Shutters
Bahama Porch Shutters
Palmetto Window FashionsPalmetto Window Fashions
Bahama Shutters on a Charleston, SC style porch Our gorgeous Bahama Shutters were the perfect finishing touch on our customers home! They are available in custom colors, sizes, and styles to meet your design needs. Our quality aluminum Bahama Shutters are specifically made to not warp, splinter or rot which means no maintenance beauty for your home. If you would like to see these on your home, visit www.palmettowindowfashions.com or call Cheri at 864-616-8719
Customized Wood Garage Door & Gate Design in an Authentic Spanish Colonial Style
Customized Wood Garage Door & Gate Design in an Authentic Spanish Colonial Style
Dynamic Garage DoorDynamic Garage Door
Santa Cruz, CA - This custom architectural garage door and gate project in the Northern California area was designed in a Spanish Colonial style and crafted by hand to capture that charming appeal of old world door craftsmanship found throughout Europe. The custom home was exquisitely built without sparing a single detail that would engulf the Spanish Colonial authentic architectural design. Beautiful, hand-selected terracotta roof tiles and white plastered walls just like in historical homes in Colonial Spain were used for this home construction, not to mention the wooden beam detailing particularly on the bay window above the garage. All these authentic Spanish Colonial architectural elements made this home the perfect backdrop for our custom Spanish Colonial Garage Doors and Gates.
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Adam C. Dover LLC.Adam C. Dover LLC.

Traditional White 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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