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Affordable Shabby-Chic Style House Exterior Ideas and Designs

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Corrugated Steel Fence
Corrugated Steel Fence
Plant Goddess LandscapingPlant Goddess Landscaping
Photo of a small romantic house exterior in Los Angeles.
Bungalow Home Kitchen Renovation
Bungalow Home Kitchen Renovation
Tindall Architecture WorkshopTindall Architecture Workshop
Photography by Firewater Pohotgraphy
Inspiration for a small and brown romantic bungalow house exterior in Atlanta with wood cladding and a pitched roof.
Carmel French Home
Carmel French Home
Will Bullock-Painting & RestoringWill Bullock-Painting & Restoring
Photo of a large and beige vintage two floor detached house in San Francisco with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a tiled roof.
Einfamilienhaus CUK
Einfamilienhaus CUK
Ulrich Herbst - Architekt BDAUlrich Herbst - Architekt BDA
Tom Schrade, Nürnberg
Inspiration for a medium sized vintage two floor semi-detached house in Nuremberg with mixed cladding and a pitched roof.
Cute House and Workshop
Cute House and Workshop
CamitalCamital
Exposeimage
Photo of a gey vintage two floor house exterior in Montreal with mixed cladding and a pitched roof.
3708 Hilltop Ln
3708 Hilltop Ln
Gill Design Co.Gill Design Co.
Carrie Buell
Inspiration for a medium sized and blue vintage two floor house exterior in Nashville with wood cladding and a pitched roof.
West Coast Cape Cod
West Coast Cape Cod
Ferreira IncFerreira Inc
Front Porch Photo Credit: Old Adobe Studios
Photo of a medium sized and green vintage two floor detached house in San Luis Obispo with concrete fibreboard cladding and a shingle roof.
River Camp House Custom Home
River Camp House Custom Home
Preferred Builders of North FloridaPreferred Builders of North Florida
Demolished an old single story home located on the St. John's River and constructed a new two-story custom built home complete with a boat dock and summer kitchen. The first floor of the home is 1652 square feet and the second floor is 1072 square feet making the total square footage 2724 under roof.
Lake Cabin
Lake Cabin
Susan Dowling Interior DesignSusan Dowling Interior Design
Exterior
Design ideas for a small and brown romantic bungalow house exterior in Atlanta with wood cladding and a lean-to roof.
Beautiful Historic Bea
Beautiful Historic Bea
Graceful Spaces, LLCGraceful Spaces, LLC
Open air porch, stunning color combination and story and a half design create an adorable facade. Photo credit: Jessica Town-Gunderson
Design ideas for a medium sized and yellow shabby-chic style house exterior in Minneapolis with wood cladding.
Wedding and Event Planning
Wedding and Event Planning
Wish Designs USAWish Designs USA
Appalachian style hickory twig branch chandelier. Custom color, shown white. UL listed for USA and Canada, hard wire, dry location. Non-Electric versions offered. Appropriate for outdoor, covered porch and tented venues, weather permitting
Ambrose Natural Thin Stone Veneer Residential Exterior
Ambrose Natural Thin Stone Veneer Residential Exterior
Quarry MillQuarry Mill
This warm and welcoming cottage style house is made with the Quarry Mill's Ambrose natural thin stone veneer. Ambrose is a dimensional style stone with a beautiful range of colors. A natural limestone, Ambrose has vibrant colors that set it apart due to the mineral staining. This natural stone veneer is well suited for both large and small scale walls.
Bateau Resto
Bateau Resto
Sequoia Construction Positive BoisSequoia Construction Positive Bois
Design ideas for a small and black vintage bungalow detached house in Angers with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a metal roof.
Cute House and Workshop
Cute House and Workshop
CamitalCamital
Exposeimage
Inspiration for a gey romantic bungalow house exterior in Montreal with mixed cladding.
West Coast Cape Cod
West Coast Cape Cod
Ferreira IncFerreira Inc
Front Porch Photo Credit: Old Adobe Studios
Photo of a medium sized and green vintage two floor detached house in San Luis Obispo with concrete fibreboard cladding and a shingle roof.
Light and Bright
Light and Bright
New England Sunrooms & Conservatories, Inc.New England Sunrooms & Conservatories, Inc.
Design ideas for a medium sized and white shabby-chic style bungalow house exterior in Boston with vinyl cladding.
Apartment Outdoor area
Apartment Outdoor area
Metro Steel ServicesMetro Steel Services
Photo of a large vintage house exterior in Perth with three floors and metal cladding.
Earlwood
Earlwood
The Site ForemanThe Site Foreman
The addition of a new family and kitchen area opening onto a new deck entertaining area, provides a level of family living not previously known in this house.
Munro House
Munro House
TENNA HomesTENNA Homes
Classic double storey extension to the rear to an existing single storey dwelling. Featuring light coloured cladding and matching coloured window frames. Decking to match internal timber hardwood floor and associated landscaping.
Mabel's Farmhouse
Mabel's Farmhouse
Design StoreyDesign Storey
Photo of a medium sized and beige romantic detached house in Other with three floors, stone cladding, a pitched roof and a tiled roof.

Affordable Shabby-Chic Style 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 shabby-chic style 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 shabby-chic style 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 shabby-chic style 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 shabby-chic style 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 shabby-chic style exterior architecture choices for your house designs.
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