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Grand Haven Custom Home
Grand Haven Custom Home
Chirigos Designs / Design BarChirigos Designs / Design Bar
Custom Home in Cape-Cod Style with cedar shakes and stained exterior doors.
This is an example of an expansive and gey traditional detached house in Minneapolis with three floors, wood cladding and shingles.
Chenequa Lake Home
Chenequa Lake Home
Think DesignThink Design
Luxury Home on Pine Lake, WI
Design ideas for an expansive and blue classic two floor detached house in Milwaukee with wood cladding, a pitched roof, a shingle roof, a brown roof and shingles.
Private Waterfront Residence on the Chester River
Private Waterfront Residence on the Chester River
Purple Cherry ArchitectsPurple Cherry Architects
The approach to the house offers a quintessential farm experience. Guests pass through farm fields, barn clusters, expansive meadows, and farm ponds. Nearing the house, a pastoral sheep enclosure provides a friendly and welcoming gesture.
Ryders Cove
Ryders Cove
Bilek BuildersBilek Builders
Beautiful Cape Cod Style home with bow roof situated on a bluff on Ryders Cove, Chatham, MA. Cape Cod. Perpetual Vacation.
Photo of an expansive beach style two floor detached house in Boston with wood cladding, a pitched roof, a shingle roof and shingles.
Backyard Pool and Spa
Backyard Pool and Spa
Fratantoni Luxury Estates Design/Build/RemodelingFratantoni Luxury Estates Design/Build/Remodeling
We love this backyard's fire features, the pool and spa, and luxury landscape design.
This is an example of an expansive and beige modern two floor brick detached house in Phoenix with a hip roof, a shingle roof, a black roof and shingles.
Adirondack Style Custom Home
Adirondack Style Custom Home
Howell Custom Building GroupHowell Custom Building Group
This shingle style New England home was built with the ambiance of a 19th century mountain lodge. The exterior features monumental stonework--large chimneys with handcarved granite caps—which anchor the home. Special features include multiple intersecting curved forms around front entrance, and a flanged base at the bottom of shingles, which ground the home.
Wesley Avenue Beach Home
Wesley Avenue Beach Home
Halliday ArchitectsHalliday Architects
Classic coastal three story beach house. Featuring architectural shutters, windows, square detailed columns, cedar shingles, and two balconies with covered front porch entrance. Distinct railings and trim details.
Denver, PA new home windows, siding/trim, slate roofing
Denver, PA new home windows, siding/trim, slate roofing
Eby ExteriorsEby Exteriors
Front view of home with detached carriage house on left. Eby Exteriors work included new Marvin Signature windows, James Hardie fiber-cement siding (rear section), DaVinci synthetic slate shingles, Aluminum trim, Copper 1/2-round gutters/downspouts, copper chimney caps, Marvin Signature patio door.
Montecito - 1929 George Washington Smith French Normandy
Montecito - 1929 George Washington Smith French Normandy
Saxony Design BuildSaxony Design Build
Design ideas for an expansive and beige two floor render detached house in Santa Barbara with a pitched roof, a shingle roof, a brown roof and shingles.
Arrow Head
Arrow Head
Shoreline Architecture & DesignShoreline Architecture & Design
Photo of an expansive and green beach style detached house in Other with three floors, wood cladding, a hip roof, a shingle roof, a brown roof and shingles.
Private Waterfront Residence on the Chester River
Private Waterfront Residence on the Chester River
Purple Cherry ArchitectsPurple Cherry Architects
The estate, located on Maryland’s idyllic Eastern Shore, encompasses 44,000 square feet of luxury, encompassing nine different structures: the main residence, timber-frame entertaining barn, guest house, carriage house, automobile barn, pool house, pottery studio, sheep shed, and boathouse.
Porches
Porches
ArchitraveArchitrave
Design ideas for an expansive and multi-coloured traditional detached house in Charleston with three floors, wood cladding, a shingle roof, a black roof and shingles.
Montecito - 1929 George Washington Smith French Normandy
Montecito - 1929 George Washington Smith French Normandy
Saxony Design BuildSaxony Design Build
Expansive and beige two floor render detached house in Santa Barbara with a pitched roof, a shingle roof, a brown roof and shingles.
Cortes Island Estate Exterior and Grounds
Cortes Island Estate Exterior and Grounds
Parker&Harlow Inc.Parker&Harlow Inc.
A coastal oasis estate on the remote island of Cortes, this home features luxury upgrades, finishing, stonework, construction updates, landscaping, solar integration, spa area, expansive entertaining deck, and cozy courtyard to reflect our clients vision.
Modern Transitional Subdivision Home
Modern Transitional Subdivision Home
Eaton + Stipp Custom HomesEaton + Stipp Custom Homes
Transitional Exterior of New Construction Home. Black concrete patio. Limestone stone. White shingle siding. Gable black dimensional roof. Aluminum windows.
Coastal Colonial New Construction
Coastal Colonial New Construction
Anthony James Master Builders, LLCAnthony James Master Builders, LLC
The exterior of this Westfield, NJ home is exquisite with various rooflines, double columns, a landscape design beautifully kept and oversized windows and doors that let endless natural light in.
Colfax
Colfax
Ross Builders, Inc.Ross Builders, Inc.
Rear
Inspiration for an expansive and gey beach style rear detached house in Chicago with three floors, wood cladding, a hip roof, a shingle roof, a grey roof and shingles.
Custom Built Lake Home
Custom Built Lake Home
Martin Bros. Contracting, Inc.Martin Bros. Contracting, Inc.
Royal Building Products Celect Cellular composite siding in Wrought Iron. Marvin Clad Wood Ultimate windows & doors in Ebony. Connecticut Stone blend of CT Split Fieldstone and CT Weathered Fieldstone. Atlas Pinnacle architectural shingles in Pristine Black. Combination of Unilock pavers, stamped concrete and slab stone on patio and hardscape. General contracting by Martin Bros. Contracting, Inc.; Architecture by Helman Sechrist Architecture; Interior Design by Nanci Wirt; Professional Photo by Marie Martin Kinney.
Nantucket Dream Home
Nantucket Dream Home
Newgard Custom HomesNewgard Custom Homes
This is an example of an expansive and white traditional detached house in Chicago with three floors, mixed cladding, a pitched roof, a shingle roof, a grey roof and shingles.
Jamestown Waterfront 4
Jamestown Waterfront 4
Tuck and Tuck ArchitectsTuck and Tuck Architects
New Shingle Style home on the Jamestown, RI waterfront.
Design ideas for an expansive and beige beach style detached house in Providence with four floors, wood cladding, a pitched roof, a shingle roof, a grey roof and shingles.

Expansive House Exterior with Shingles 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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