Black House Exterior with a Mansard Roof Ideas and Designs

Design ideas for a medium sized and gey classic house exterior in Orange County with three floors, mixed cladding and a mansard roof.

Ancienne vue, depuis la route du col des Ayes.

Joël Saurin Architecte

Design ideas for a large and beige rustic detached house in Grenoble with three floors, wood cladding, a mansard roof and a tiled roof.

Shingle Style Dutch Colonial Exterior

Ron Brenner Architects

A home for the cities, a home for the country! House plan available for purchase at http://simplyeleganthomedesigns.com/tonka_unique_dutch_colonial_house_plan.html

Maple Glen- Rear Exterior

LDa Architecture & Interiors

TEAM Architect: LDa Architecture & Interiors Builder: Old Grove Partners, LLC. Landscape Architect: LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects Photographer: Greg Premru Photography

Built-In Copper Gutters

GF Sprague & Company, Inc.

These built-in copper gutters were designed specifically for this slate roof home.
Large and white classic two floor detached house in Boston with mixed cladding, a mansard roof and a tiled roof.

Craftsman House

dbp architecture pc

dbp architecture pc
Inspiration for a medium sized and brown classic two floor house exterior in New York with wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Roofs

Housetop Roofing, LLC

This is an example of a large and gey classic two floor detached house in Omaha with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

The Atessa Show Home

Lupi Luxury Homes

West Coast Contemporary
Inspiration for a gey and large contemporary two floor render detached house in Calgary with a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

The Gambrel Roof Home

Kristi Spouse Interiors

The Gambrel Roof Home is a dutch colonial design with inspiration from the East Coast. Designed from the ground up by our team - working closely with architect and builder, we created a classic American home with fantastic street appeal

Hopkinton Farmstead Renovation

Archambault Construction

Inspiration for a large rural two floor detached house in Boston with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a metal roof.

Whitehall Bay

Hansen Architects

marta hansen
Gey victorian two floor house exterior in DC Metro with wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Wayland Renovation

Michael Kim Associates

Photo of a large and white classic two floor house exterior in Boston with wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Valentine Street Residence

Jill Litner Kaplan Interiors

Michael J. Lee Photography
Photo of a large and brown victorian two floor detached house in Boston with a mansard roof, wood cladding and a shingle roof.

Addition & Remodel, Biltmore, North Barrington, IL

Hardin Builders, Inc.

Inspiration for a large and blue traditional two floor detached house in Chicago with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Bhalerao House

Paul Archer Design

An early Arts and Crafts detached house is repaired and transformed for a growing family who wanted to create some much needed extra space for frequent family guests.

Ocean Front

TMS Architects

TMS Architects
Inspiration for a large and gey nautical two floor detached house in Boston with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Jenner Ranch

EARTHTONE CONSTRUCTION

This is an example of a green farmhouse two floor house exterior in San Francisco with wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Traditional Exterior

Country house exterior in Other with wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Town & Country Elegant Farmhouse Custom Home Build

Pleasant View Construction

Photo of a large and beige rustic two floor house exterior in St Louis with mixed cladding and a mansard roof.

Shingle Style / Harrison Design

BEVOLO GAS & ELECTRIC LIGHTS

Shingle Style Home featuring Bevolo Lighting. Perfect for a family, this shingle-style home offers ample play zones complemented by tucked-away areas. With the residence’s full scale only apparent from the back, Harrison Design’s concept optimizes water views. The living room connects with the open kitchen via the dining area, distinguished by its vaulted ceiling and expansive windows. An octagonal-shaped tower with a domed ceiling serves as an office and lounge. Much of the upstairs design is oriented toward the children, with a two-level recreation area, including an indoor climbing wall. A side wing offers a live-in suite for a nanny or grandparents.

Black House Exterior with a Mansard Roof 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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