Exterior help needed!
Hello!
My partner and I are in the process of purchasing our first home together. The house we're buying has bags of potential, but is currently lacking curb appeal and i'm struggling to see how to transform it on a smallish budget.
The top half of the property is done in a pebbledash rendering that's been painted white. Ideally we'd look to take that off and get it back to its original brick but from research that can be costly. So, does anyone have any ideas on how we can spruce up the outside?
I've also attached a picture of the style we absolutely love - although if we're keeping the rendering on top, we might have to forgo the grey windows etc. as it could look a bit much...
Thanks very much in advance!
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3 years agoLovely house, congrats.
Replacing the windows with wooden sash windows would improve the look.
Perhaps you can have look in the area to see how your front door/‘porch’ would have looked originally. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have been flush with the exterior wall but set back into the house.
And yes railings would look good too.
This is what we did to our front wall which was partly there already:
There’s an identical pier at the left end.
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3 years agoYou’re not quite on your own on that, Sonia, but it can look good on larger houses I feel.
This is one around the corner from me.
Re OP’s wall, can it be stripped of its paint/render perhaps? That way the original wall and pier(s) could be kept.
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