Cheering up a sad looking 1960s house
Hi,
We recently bought this 1960s house in a beautiful village in Devon. There's some nice stonework at either end but the outside front view is fairly bland, to my eye it's quite featureless and I'm not sure what might add a bit of wow factor. Windows are going to need replacing in time and I thought some antracite ones could improve things. I like modern styles and clean lines of the house so I don't want to add any old fashioned features. Any suggestions or ideas would be brilliant! Many thanks folks!
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PROUser
6 years agoThe light on the coast is fantastic. The whites seem brighter. I'd go with painting the house white, your grey windows which will tie in with your stonework, and go to town with planting and softening features in the garden I'd raise and paint the fence too as currently it doesn't match anything, plus it looks like you're slightly over looked to the left so it will make the seating area in the garden more private.
All soffitts and fascia's to be the same as the windows.
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Juliet Docherty
6 years agoIt's a gorgeous house. I would go for mid toned warm grey windows as anthracite whilst smart can look a bit generic. You could replace the hung tiles with something like this, especially if you went for a slate patio.
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI've been changing your house too :-)
The colours of the windows differ, but that's by accident. I've replaced some and painted others. I meant them all to be anthracite grey.
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