Coastal House Exterior with a Mansard Roof Ideas and Designs

River Front residence in Avon by the Sea

N2 Architecture LLC

Photo of a yellow coastal detached house in Other with concrete fibreboard cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Crocker Gambrel

Patrick Ahearn Architect

Inspiration for a medium sized beach style two floor detached house in Boston with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Classical Nantucket Dream Home

Hendel Homes

Inspiration for a coastal two floor house exterior in Minneapolis with wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Osprey Marsh

Hutker Architects

Beige beach style two floor detached house in Boston with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Gambrel

Violanda Franzese Architect P.C.

Inspiration for a large and multi-coloured nautical detached house in New York with three floors, wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Ocean

Atlantic Modular Builders

This is an example of a large and blue coastal house exterior in New York with three floors, wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Morris Island Guest House

Polhemus Savery DaSilva

Randall Perry
Photo of a medium sized coastal two floor house exterior in Boston with a mansard roof.

Cape Porpoise Residence

Bowley Builders

Irvin Serrano
This is an example of a white beach style two floor house exterior in Portland Maine with wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Clinton - "Pool House"

Tiezzi Construction, LLC

Entertaining, relaxing and enjoying life…this spectacular pool house sits on the water’s edge, built on piers and takes full advantage of Long Island Sound views. An infinity pool with hot tub and trellis with a built in misting system to keep everyone cool and relaxed all summer long!

Ocean City, NJ - Bayfront

David C. Bennett Architects

Nautical house exterior in Philadelphia with three floors, wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Turkey Land Cove

Colonial Reproductions, Inc.

Photo of a brown coastal two floor detached house in Boston with wood cladding, a mansard roof, a shingle roof, a brown roof and shingles.

Coastal Virginia Idea House York Lane

Stephen Alexander Homes & Neighborhoods

Jonathan Edwards Media
Design ideas for a large and gey coastal two floor concrete detached house in Other with a mansard roof and a mixed material roof.

Exterior

J G Popper Custom Builder LLC

Joseph G Popper III
Inspiration for a nautical house exterior in Philadelphia with three floors, wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Southampton beach house

User

Photo of a large and brown nautical two floor detached house in New York with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Lakeside Cottage

Melichar Architects

Photo by Jessica Ayala
Design ideas for a medium sized and white beach style two floor detached house in Chicago with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Island Homes

McDougal Architects & Interior Designers

Design ideas for a large and beige beach style two floor detached house in Boston with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Exterior

Echelon Custom Homes

Inspiration for a beach style house exterior in Philadelphia with wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Lakefront Home

Wiedemann Architects LLC

Exterior view of lake front home at dusk. The four seasons sun room has views of the lake and the owners master bedroom/balcony is above. The entry courtyard in on the left with covered porch and small outdoor seating area. Anice Hoachlander, Hoachlander Davis Photography LLC

Wayzata Bay Farmhouse

Murphy & Co. Design

This is an example of a white beach style two floor detached house in Minneapolis with wood cladding, a mansard roof and a shingle roof.

Custom Built Beach House

Ingalls Custom Contracting

Motion City Media
Inspiration for a blue beach style detached house in New York with three floors and a mansard roof.

Coastal 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 coastal 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 coastal 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 coastal 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 coastal 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 coastal exterior architecture choices for your house designs.

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