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Affordable Bungalow House Exterior Ideas and Designs

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Del Rey Residence
Del Rey Residence
AAHA StudioAAHA Studio
Front Entry and Deck
Design ideas for a small and gey modern bungalow render detached house in Los Angeles with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Juban Parc - Fleetwood II A
Juban Parc - Fleetwood II A
DSLD HomesDSLD Homes
Welcome to Juban Parc! Our beautiful community is the answer to all of your dreams when building your new DSLD home. Our 3 to 4 bedroom homes include many amenities inside and out, such as 3cm granite countertops with undermount sinks, Birch cabinets with hardware, fully sodded lots with landscaping, and architectural 30-year shingles.
Hill Country Modern Farmhouse
Hill Country Modern Farmhouse
Bohannon Design TeamBohannon Design Team
Medium sized and white rural bungalow front detached house in Dallas with mixed cladding, a mixed material roof, a grey roof and board and batten cladding.
Modern Bungalow
Modern Bungalow
refuGe Design StudiorefuGe Design Studio
Inspiration for a medium sized and black modern bungalow brick house exterior in Houston with a lean-to roof, a shingle roof, a black roof and shiplap cladding.
Aspen Village
Aspen Village
KRN Residential DesignKRN Residential Design
This is an example of a gey classic bungalow render and front house exterior in Other with a hip roof, a shingle roof and a brown roof.
Front Covered Porch
Front Covered Porch
The House DesignersThe House Designers
The welcoming Front Covered Porch of The Catilina. View House Plan THD-5289: https://www.thehousedesigners.com/plan/catilina-1013-5289/
Bridge House
Bridge House
HAUS | Architecture For Modern LifestylesHAUS | Architecture For Modern Lifestyles
Entry walk elevates to welcome visitors to covered entry porch - welcome to bridge house - entry - Bridge House - Fenneville, Michigan - Lake Michigan, Saugutuck, Michigan, Douglas Michigan - HAUS | Architecture For Modern Lifestyles
Lerner House
Lerner House
TCW HomesTCW Homes
Inspiration for a large and blue modern bungalow detached house in Atlanta.
Sandal Lane
Sandal Lane
Make ArchitectureMake Architecture
A remodel of a midcentury home, with family room addition, new pool and patios. MAKE drew inspiration from the existing horizontal lines of the existing midcentury residence, also complimenting those lines with the addition of vertical architectural gestures and a new family room with a heightened roof line. We site planned the home to shelter the pool and enhance the sense of privacy and as an extension of the livable area.
Menlo Park Custom Addition and Remodel
Menlo Park Custom Addition and Remodel
Phillip Price ConstructionPhillip Price Construction
Photo of a medium sized and green classic bungalow detached house in San Francisco with concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
O'Haren Dry Creek Guest House
O'Haren Dry Creek Guest House
Thompson Studio ArchitectsThompson Studio Architects
Photo of a medium sized and brown modern bungalow detached house in San Francisco with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a metal roof.
The Lillehammer - Front Porch
The Lillehammer - Front Porch
PAUL FICK HOMES INCPAUL FICK HOMES INC
Photo Credit: Tim Hanson Photography
This is an example of a medium sized and green classic bungalow detached house in Other with mixed cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Princeton Cottage Addition
Princeton Cottage Addition
Douglas R. Schotland ArchitectDouglas R. Schotland Architect
Design ideas for a small and white classic bungalow detached house in Philadelphia with wood cladding, a shingle roof and a pitched roof.
Mandeville
Mandeville
Lewis / Schoeplein architectsLewis / Schoeplein architects
Marisa Vitale Photography
Design ideas for a white midcentury bungalow render detached house in Los Angeles with a flat roof.
North End Remodel Spec
North End Remodel Spec
VB Homes Design, Build, RemodelVB Homes Design, Build, Remodel
This is an example of a medium sized and white classic bungalow detached house in Other with mixed cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
The Addison II Custom Home - Front Exterior
The Addison II Custom Home - Front Exterior
Snowden Builders LLCSnowden Builders LLC
New custom home just completed in Byron Center! One of our most popular home layouts, this craftsman style ranch features an open layout with 1,810 square feet of space on the main floor with lots of gorgeous trimwork and so many unique, custom features throughout!
Baby Ruth
Baby Ruth
QuarterLab Design BuildQuarterLab Design Build
We like drawing inspiration from mid century queues. Examples of this can be seen in the low pitched roof lines and tapered brick. We also like to think you can get some big looks while still being frugal. While going for a tongue and groove cedar look, we opted to use cedar fence pickets to give us and inexpensive but decadent feel to our roof eaves.
Modern Cabin
Modern Cabin
Elements Architectural GroupElements Architectural Group
Located along a country road, a half mile from the clear waters of Lake Michigan, we were hired to re-conceptualize an existing weekend cabin to allow long views of the adjacent farm field and create a separate area for the owners to escape their high school age children and many visitors! The site had tight building setbacks which limited expansion options, and to further our challenge, a 200 year old pin oak tree stood in the available building location. We designed a bedroom wing addition to the side of the cabin which freed up the existing cabin to become a great room with a wall of glass which looks out to the farm field and accesses a newly designed pea-gravel outdoor dining room. The addition steps around the existing tree, sitting on a specialized foundation we designed to minimize impact to the tree. The master suite is kept separate with ‘the pass’- a low ceiling link back to the main house. Painted board and batten siding, ribbons of windows, a low one-story metal roof with vaulted ceiling and no-nonsense detailing fits this modern cabin to the Michigan country-side. A great place to vacation. The perfect place to retire someday.
Del Rey Residence
Del Rey Residence
AAHA StudioAAHA Studio
Front Entry
Inspiration for a small and gey modern bungalow render detached house in Los Angeles with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Old Chaser Farm
Old Chaser Farm
Plumb Level SquarePlumb Level Square
Photo of a medium sized and gey industrial bungalow detached house in Seattle with mixed cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Affordable Bungalow 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 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 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 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 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 exterior architecture choices for your house designs.
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