Exterior improvement required for my 1950s bungalow! Photoshop please
Ive posted about this before but was a long time ago. We would like to improve the outside of this ugly duckling!! Im struggling to visualise so please could someone help me out with a photoshop... we are wonderong about painting white with grey windows! Right hand door entrance next to garages we are blocking up and putting in a standard door which you wont be able to see from this angle. Front door step to be replaced and a small raised planter to go in along front of the house. Plus any other ideas! Thanks in advance.
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4 years agoHeres a pic of the back of the house where we have new windows and doors and new render.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoI did start off with the dark grey and the white, but with the garage and the tarmac it was bland.
So i went off piste and warmed it up.............fair enough you may not want that type of window, but the dark grey and the tarmac together were too drab. I used a warmer grey to go with the cedar and match in with the front door. I also changed the side door for wood to break up the corner.
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4 years agoHi Gerty, yes, it was just too plain, all white, grey windows, the blue / grey of the garages was too steely. Then you were contending with the roof and the tarmac, it was just drab overload. I think the biggest problem with white and grey is probably the brown roof. White is too stark and stone would be better as it's a warmer tone ( stone coloured render, not actual stone ).
If you had a grey roof then of course white and grey would work.
You could try a warmer off white with a slightly warmer grey and that would probably look better with the roof.
I personally prefer the wood, as it goes great with the front door and really makes the entrance stand out.
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4 years agoIve found this house which has some stone detailing with a roof similar to ours... i wonder if we could get the house similar colour to our rear extension and maybe incorporate some stone detailing somewhere perhaps this could improve something!
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4 years agoI agree that matching the walls and windows to the extension would look really smart. I would also suggest painting the garage doors the same dark grey, replacing the front step with lighter stone tiles and adding some wooden planters.
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4 years agoNot sure if i need to start a new post but i have booled the decorator to come to paint all the fascias, soffits, guttering, downpipes and garage doors for now. But what colours? From pica attached you cam see we currently have an awful pale blue underneath. Would u do this again with the very dark charcoal colour which we are going to do our garage doors? Or would u keep it all white? Or would u paint the gutters and downpipes in the charcoal... or keep them white? Advise pls
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