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Expansive House Exterior with a Grey Roof Ideas and Designs

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Belle Isle Lake House with Guest House
Belle Isle Lake House with Guest House
Artisan Custom HomesArtisan Custom Homes
Photo of an expansive and gey farmhouse two floor detached house in Charlotte with stone cladding, a pitched roof, a mixed material roof, a grey roof and board and batten cladding.
Patio
Patio
Spieler ConstructionSpieler Construction
Photo of an expansive and white modern two floor render detached house in Santa Barbara with a hip roof, a metal roof and a grey roof.
Triple Tree Residence
Triple Tree Residence
Studio ArchitectsStudio Architects
Inspiration for an expansive rustic two floor render detached house in Other with a shingle roof and a grey roof.
Red Bay
Red Bay
Whiteley & WhiteleyWhiteley & Whiteley
French country design
Inspiration for an expansive and multi-coloured two floor brick detached house in Houston with a pitched roof, a shingle roof and a grey roof.
Tonal Harmony Front Exterior
Tonal Harmony Front Exterior
Drewett WorksDrewett Works
With adjacent neighbors within a fairly dense section of Paradise Valley, Arizona, C.P. Drewett sought to provide a tranquil retreat for a new-to-the-Valley surgeon and his family who were seeking the modernism they loved though had never lived in. With a goal of consuming all possible site lines and views while maintaining autonomy, a portion of the house — including the entry, office, and master bedroom wing — is subterranean. This subterranean nature of the home provides interior grandeur for guests but offers a welcoming and humble approach, fully satisfying the clients requests. While the lot has an east-west orientation, the home was designed to capture mainly north and south light which is more desirable and soothing. The architecture’s interior loftiness is created with overlapping, undulating planes of plaster, glass, and steel. The woven nature of horizontal planes throughout the living spaces provides an uplifting sense, inviting a symphony of light to enter the space. The more voluminous public spaces are comprised of stone-clad massing elements which convert into a desert pavilion embracing the outdoor spaces. Every room opens to exterior spaces providing a dramatic embrace of home to natural environment. Grand Award winner for Best Interior Design of a Custom Home The material palette began with a rich, tonal, large-format Quartzite stone cladding. The stone’s tones gaveforth the rest of the material palette including a champagne-colored metal fascia, a tonal stucco system, and ceilings clad with hemlock, a tight-grained but softer wood that was tonally perfect with the rest of the materials. The interior case goods and wood-wrapped openings further contribute to the tonal harmony of architecture and materials. Grand Award Winner for Best Indoor Outdoor Lifestyle for a Home This award-winning project was recognized at the 2020 Gold Nugget Awards with two Grand Awards, one for Best Indoor/Outdoor Lifestyle for a Home, and another for Best Interior Design of a One of a Kind or Custom Home. At the 2020 Design Excellence Awards and Gala presented by ASID AZ North, Ownby Design received five awards for Tonal Harmony. The project was recognized for 1st place – Bathroom; 3rd place – Furniture; 1st place – Kitchen; 1st place – Outdoor Living; and 2nd place – Residence over 6,000 square ft. Congratulations to Claire Ownby, Kalysha Manzo, and the entire Ownby Design team. Tonal Harmony was also featured on the cover of the July/August 2020 issue of Luxe Interiors + Design and received a 14-page editorial feature entitled “A Place in the Sun” within the magazine.
East Memphis Manor
East Memphis Manor
Shapiro & Company ArchitectsShapiro & Company Architects
Inspiration for an expansive and white traditional two floor brick detached house in Other with a hip roof, a shingle roof and a grey roof.
Desert Living Oasis Home with Standing Seam Metal Roof and Solar Energy System
Desert Living Oasis Home with Standing Seam Metal Roof and Solar Energy System
EnergyPal SolarEnergyPal Solar
Beautifully balanced and serene desert landscaped modern build with standing seam metal roofing and seamless solar panel array. The simplistic and stylish property boasts huge energy savings with the high production solar array.
Greenwich Passive House Remodel
Greenwich Passive House Remodel
Trillium ArchitectsTrillium Architects
Expansive and beige traditional detached house in New York with three floors, concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof, a metal roof, a grey roof and shiplap cladding.
Tudor Estate Update
Tudor Estate Update
EASA ArchitectureEASA Architecture
Outdoor covered porch, outdoor kitchen, pergola, and outdoor fireplace.
Expansive and white traditional two floor render and rear detached house in San Francisco with a pitched roof, a shingle roof and a grey roof.
English Countryside Estate
English Countryside Estate
Jonathan Miller ArchitectsJonathan Miller Architects
Design ideas for an expansive and beige classic two floor detached house in Other with stone cladding, a tiled roof and a grey roof.
11271 Chalon Road
11271 Chalon Road
The House GroupThe House Group
Design ideas for an expansive and gey modern detached house in Los Angeles with three floors, stone cladding, a flat roof, a green roof and a grey roof.
Rochester Home
Rochester Home
Executive Developers, LLCExecutive Developers, LLC
sprawling ranch estate home w/ stone and stucco exterior
Expansive and multi-coloured modern bungalow render detached house in Other with a hip roof, a shingle roof and a grey roof.
Keowee Manor
Keowee Manor
Gabriel Builders Inc.Gabriel Builders Inc.
Lake Keowee estate home with steel doors and windows, large outdoor living with kitchen, chimney pots, legacy home situated on 5 lots on beautiful Lake Keowee in SC
Mid-Century Modern home remodel
Mid-Century Modern home remodel
John Webb Construction and DesignJohn Webb Construction and Design
Here is an architecturally built house from the early 1970's which was brought into the new century during this complete home remodel by adding a garage space, new windows triple pane tilt and turn windows, cedar double front doors, clear cedar siding with clear cedar natural siding accents, clear cedar garage doors, galvanized over sized gutters with chain style downspouts, standing seam metal roof, re-purposed arbor/pergola, professionally landscaped yard, and stained concrete driveway, walkways, and steps.
Exteriors
Exteriors
Zawadski Homes Inc.Zawadski Homes Inc.
Dream home front entry and garage with bonus room.
Expansive and beige classic two floor detached house in Minneapolis with a shingle roof, mixed cladding, a pitched roof and a grey roof.
English Manor Estate Home in North Jersey
English Manor Estate Home in North Jersey
OSK Design Partners, PAOSK Design Partners, PA
Inspiration for an expansive and beige classic detached house in Philadelphia with three floors, stone cladding, a hip roof, a tiled roof and a grey roof.
English Manor Estate Home in North Jersey
English Manor Estate Home in North Jersey
OSK Design Partners, PAOSK Design Partners, PA
Design ideas for an expansive and beige traditional detached house in Philadelphia with three floors, stone cladding, a hip roof, a tiled roof and a grey roof.
Mandeville Residence
Mandeville Residence
Vertoch Design ArchitectsVertoch Design Architects
Photo of an expansive and gey traditional detached house in Los Angeles with three floors, stone cladding, a metal roof, a grey roof and board and batten cladding.
South Buckinghamshire
South Buckinghamshire
True Blue ArchitectureTrue Blue Architecture
Design ideas for an expansive and beige front detached house in Other with three floors, stone cladding, a pitched roof, a tiled roof and a grey roof.
Victorian Estate
Victorian Estate
Ashby CollectiveAshby Collective
Photo of an expansive and white victorian detached house in Houston with three floors, wood cladding, a pitched roof, a shingle roof and a grey roof.

Expansive House Exterior with a Grey 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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