It's one property, the double gable roof gives an impression of it being 2 semis. Altering the roof may be out of bounds financially and not quite sure how it could be reconfigured.

It is about 270 sq meters, with a double garage also

Some ideas for the exterior, looks an awesome house!

Hope this helps.x

Hello Munday Girl - are you just wanting to increase the 'curb appeal'? If so you could break up the frontage with larger plant pots, small trees, sculpture for little cost. If you are wanting to change the exterior of the house for sale then cladding is a good idea but I'm not convinced you would add value. Have you spoken to estate agents yet?They should have a very good idea of what will increase the value. What usually sells houses is kitchens and living spaces - what are these like currently? Do you need a 'make over' for selling? I would make sure you had a wonderful all singing all dancing kitchen, dining, living space that functions as the heart of the home.
I did a large extension to create this very space for a property in SW London last year - the client added £400K to the value of the house by spending £200K making a cool £200K profit. You can see this on my Houzz site. I have a feeling this is not what you are looking for but it is possible. 60's houses of this style usually have generous spaces any way so the best thing to do is show them off to best advantage. Do you have floor plans we can see?
Hope this has been of some help. Best wishes Nicky

Hi Nicky Thanks so much for your input. There have been quite a few attempts to try to sell and so I'm in very regular contact with estate agents. They are now trying to limit my expectations and tell me it is a building site unfortunately, which I simply do not accept. The interior is actually fairly good. The kitchen living space was renovated a few years ago. The house has an unusual layout, living spaces are on top floor for better views. I am told this is also a big problem. I am not going to be able to add considerable value due to where property is located, you could say I am trying to maintain value or create some moderate uplift. The facade lacks wow factor and there is a lot of competition at the price level so I do feel I must up my game and make it look like a different house so to speak!

Thank you Honeypoppet, what software did you use? I like the grey palette more, although I intend to remove much of the cladding.

I use the Benjamin Moore (US version) Design Your Own Room service...

Some images of the interior living space. There are 2 other reception rooms that are quite old school with Old Charm furtniture etc

Hi Jen, We're in Ireland. The house is on a very secluded private plot so I would say that is selling point we wouldn't want to compromise. Aside from that I also believe that there is a single dwelling condition on the plot, so semis not an option.

Carolina, what bothers you also troubles me. I think the flagstones have to go and the cladding I feel is too overwhelming and dark too. When you say different styles of window do you mean the wood frame on the left with the mock balcony?

Iceland that's a shame-I was a bit in love with your house!

Ireland!!! Autocorrect

Oh I see Carolina. I'm not sure what they are called but I know what you mean. I would like to replace both sets of doors, brown and white. Priority would be change the wooden ones.

I'm quite interested in spray painting UPVC window frames as an option, but I'm wondering what I would do with the interior frames.

I like the grey too but I think if I go for cladding it will be a natural wood rather than painted.

I think it's a great house too. Agree with painting the window white. I would also dig up the area with the ramp and have a bed with structural planting. Paint the garage door dark grey. I might also paint the front door or change it if in its budget. The French door also looks odd as it appears as if it's sinking. If you had a pane at the top which matched the height of the other windows I think it would look much better (in a simpler style). Depending on what you do with the cladding it could also look good painted black. I also think the terrace needs something, maybe 2/3 sails at the end to match the roof shape? Internally I might just look at removing some of the downlights and adding a couple of pendant lights.

Thank you all! Some of these suggestions I had never evn considered. Particularly partially covering the terrace, I will have to give that some thought, living in ireland we don't get to do as much outdoor living due to unpredictable weather, so perhaps making it more of an all weather space could work well.

The border would add more depth and interest to the frontage for sure. The bedrooms can be a bit gloomy so i would imagine I'd have to keep the planting lower than window height? Should the border extend out from the front wall or should I leave a path way.

Window-wise I can't increase the kitchen window (the small one to the left of patio door) as it is above the sink and would require complete re-configuration of the kitchen. I would however want to create some symmetry and parity with the other upstairs windows and and the juliette balcony door and patio doors, so I will look to replace.

I'm planning dining space pendant lighting and perhaps a media wall (ikea besta) in living room.

I want to get away from the dated 60s look so I will be very careful on any decision re cladding and dark block colours. I might even consider a New England or Scandi type look.

I'm thinking of replacing the front door too, what about extending it out so it is flush to front of house?

Other considerations are spray painting the windows grey. I wonder if it will look odd to have dark exterior frame/ white interior frame, also is a luxe good-as-new finish possible?

Thanks :)

Another option... Maybe?

Wow Carolina that's very pretty. Could you try adding a natural coloured clad on a few sections to see how it looks?

Thanks

Here are some more pics of the house and setting

Does this help?

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or white as I posted before, so you have the three versions together

Sorry for the wobbly lines :-)

I love this house. I'd suggest keeping the front door recessed. That little bit of shelter over your head will be useful when you or your guests arrive and it's raining..

You've had some great suggestions.