Expansive Victorian House Exterior Ideas and Designs

Finished Exterior at Night
This is an example of an expansive and gey victorian detached house in St Louis with three floors and wood cladding.

Custom Homes

Whitten Design Group

Design ideas for an expansive and beige victorian two floor house exterior in Denver with mixed cladding and a mansard roof.

Bridgehampton Residence

PBDW Architects

Jonathan Wallen
Expansive victorian two floor house exterior in New York with wood cladding and a mansard roof.

Hillbury Road, Wandsworth

GDL London

Red and expansive victorian brick semi-detached house in London with a pitched roof and three floors.

57 Paag Circle Little Silver, NJ

Virtuoso Architecture

Design ideas for an expansive and brown victorian two floor house exterior in New York with wood cladding.

Victorian Estate II

Ashby Collective

This is an example of an expansive and white victorian bungalow house exterior in Houston with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a grey roof.

Lake View - McEwan Custom Homes

Hearth and Home Distributors of Utah, LLC. (HHDU)

Full Stone Exterior featuring Gray Cobble Creek stone with a Trinity White Grout.
Inspiration for an expansive and beige victorian two floor detached house in Salt Lake City with stone cladding, a pitched roof, a shingle roof and a black roof.

Jerusalem Rd Cohasset

Fabrizio Construction llc

Here is of our hallmark projects, the main house was both fully restored, updated & brought back to the grandeur it truly deserves
Inspiration for an expansive and gey victorian house exterior in Boston with three floors, wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Academy Apartments

Blake H. Held, Architect, PLLC

Restored rear elevation
This is an example of an expansive and red victorian brick flat in New York with three floors.

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Calais Custom Homes

Photo of an expansive and beige victorian detached house in Dallas with three floors, stone cladding, a hip roof and a tiled roof.

1861 Mansion Exterior Restoration

MD Eggers

Justin Meyer
Photo of an expansive and gey victorian house exterior in Other with three floors, wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Pine Hill House Porte Cochere

Matthew Fowler, Architect

A view of the front facade and porte cochere carriage entry.
Inspiration for an expansive and brown victorian house exterior with three floors and wood cladding.

0213 | Portsmouth, RI

Andreozzi Architecture

Photography: Aaron Usher www.aaronusher.com/
Inspiration for an expansive and brown victorian house exterior in Providence with a pitched roof, three floors and wood cladding.

Boulevard Park House

Katie Denham Interiors

Inspiration for an expansive and white victorian two floor detached house in Sacramento with wood cladding.

Pine Street Victorian

Halcyon Home Staging + Design

Design ideas for an expansive and yellow victorian house exterior in San Francisco.

Academy Apartments

Blake H. Held, Architect, PLLC

Restored front elevation.
Design ideas for an expansive and red victorian brick flat in New York with three floors.

Island Traditional

Buffington Homes South Carolina

This is an example of an expansive and gey victorian house exterior in Charleston with three floors, mixed cladding and a hip roof.

Lynnbrook

Mossy Ridge Construction LLC

Photo of an expansive and white victorian house exterior in Nashville with stone cladding and three floors.

Grattan Residence

Cronk Duch Architecture

This is an example of an expansive victorian house exterior in Jacksonville with wood cladding and a pitched roof.

A Rural French Country Estate

Mariani Landscape

Linda Oyama Bryan
Design ideas for an expansive and yellow victorian clay detached house in Chicago with three floors, a pitched roof and a tiled roof.

Expansive Victorian House Exterior 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 victorian 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 victorian 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 victorian 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 victorian 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 victorian exterior architecture choices for your house designs.

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