Black House Exterior with Three Floors Ideas and Designs

Hidden Lake

Arcanum Architecture

Photo of a large and gey modern detached house in Sacramento with three floors, mixed cladding and a pitched roof.

Organic Modern Mountain Home

Living Stone Design + Build

Design ideas for a large and multi-coloured contemporary detached house in Other with three floors, mixed cladding and a metal roof.

Lake of the Isles

Regarding Design

Sumptuous spaces are created throughout the house with the use of dark, moody colors, elegant upholstery with bespoke trim details, unique wall coverings, and natural stone with lots of movement. The mix of print, pattern, and artwork creates a modern twist on traditional design.

New Canaan, CT Red Cedar

Connecticut Roofcrafters Llc

Lower angle view highlighting the pitch of this Western Red Cedar perfection shingle roof we recently installed on this expansive and intricate New Canaan, CT residence. This installation involved numerous dormers, valleys and protrusions, and over 8,000 square feet of copper chromated arsenate-treated cedar.

Mt. Hope Modern Home at Dusk

ZeroEnergy Design

This is an example of a large and gey contemporary detached house in Other with three floors and mixed cladding.

Bogart 3

Studio Design Elements

Expansive and black modern brick detached house in Atlanta with three floors, a mixed material roof, a black roof and board and batten cladding.

3907 De Longpre

URBAN OPERATIONS

This custom hillside home takes advantage of the terrain in order to provide sweeping views of the local Silver Lake neighborhood. A stepped sectional design provides balconies and outdoor space at every level.

Sandbanks, Dorset - exterior

My Furniture

This is an example of a large and multi-coloured contemporary detached house in Other with three floors, mixed cladding and a flat roof.

Grand View

John Lum Architecture, Inc. AIA

Exterior shot.
Inspiration for a contemporary detached house in San Francisco with three floors and a flat roof.

Ceres

Amirez Developments

Designed by the award winning Anders Robert Cheer and built by our dedicated team to our exemplary specifications, 12 Minterne Road comprises of 2 impressive 4 bedroom houses.

Modern Custom Mercer Island Home

JayMarc Homes

The entry is dripping in cedar, lighting up against the dusk sky.
Design ideas for an expansive and black contemporary detached house in Seattle with three floors, mixed cladding and a flat roof.

Exteriors

Teague Hunziker Photography

©Teague Hunziker Mary and Lee Blair Residence and Studio. Architect Harwell Hamilton Harris. 1939
Inspiration for a retro detached house in Los Angeles with three floors and wood cladding.

Custom Craftsman Home in Vienna, VA

Oak Hill Building & Remodeling

Robert Miller Photography
Photo of a large and blue classic detached house in DC Metro with three floors, concrete fibreboard cladding, a shingle roof, a pitched roof and a grey roof.

French Country Architecture at its Finest

Jonathan Dean

© 2015 Jonathan Dean. All Rights Reserved. www.jwdean.com.
Design ideas for a large and white render house exterior in New Orleans with three floors and a hip roof.

Necowa Lodge

Modern Rustic Homes

Rustic house exterior in Atlanta with three floors and a pitched roof.

Lake George Retreat

Phinney Design Group

Rob Spring Photography
This is an example of a rustic house exterior in New York with three floors.

Modern is Modern Again in Portola Valley

Mark Brand Architecture

For this remodel in Portola Valley, California we were hired to rejuvenate a circa 1980 modernist house clad in deteriorating vertical wood siding. The house included a greenhouse style sunroom which got so unbearably hot as to be unusable. We opened up the floor plan and completely demolished the sunroom, replacing it with a new dining room open to the remodeled living room and kitchen. We added a new office and deck above the new dining room and replaced all of the exterior windows, mostly with oversized sliding aluminum doors by Fleetwood to open the house up to the wooded hillside setting. Stainless steel railings protect the inhabitants where the sliding doors open more than 50 feet above the ground below. We replaced the wood siding with stucco in varying tones of gray, white and black, creating new exterior lines, massing and proportions. We also created a new master suite upstairs and remodeled the existing powder room. Architecture by Mark Brand Architecture. Interior Design by Mark Brand Architecture in collaboration with Applegate Tran Interiors. Lighting design by Luminae Souter. Photos by Christopher Stark Photography.

Fremont High-Performing Home

Board & Vellum

Photo by Andrew Giammarco.
Design ideas for a large and white contemporary detached house in Seattle with three floors, wood cladding, a lean-to roof and a metal roof.

Arrow Wood Home

Cella Architecture

Back porches and pathway
Design ideas for a large and white classic detached house in Portland with three floors, wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Lakeside Mountain Modern

Alexander Design Group, Inc.

Spacecrafting
This is an example of a gey country detached house in Minneapolis with three floors, mixed cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Black House Exterior with Three Floors 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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