Grey House Exterior Ideas and Designs

Nestled along the base of the Snake River, this house in Jackson, WY, is surrounded by nature. Design emphasis has been placed on carefully located views to the Grand Tetons, Munger Mountain, Cody Peak and Josie’s Ridge. This modern take on a farmhouse features painted clapboard siding, raised seam metal roofing, and reclaimed stone walls. Designed for an active young family, the house has multi-functional rooms with spaces for entertaining, play and numerous connections to the outdoors. Photography: Leslee Mitchell

外観（昼）

アークス建築デザイン事務所

Photo of a medium sized and gey modern two floor concrete detached house in Other with a flat roof and a metal roof.

Exterior

Ashbourne Designs

A complete remodel of a victorian home in the Centerport area of New York. Featuring 3 floors and showing off Ashbourne's best work.
Large and yellow classic house exterior in New York with three floors and wood cladding.

Grounded - Modern Landscape Architecture

Grounded - Richard Risner RLA, ASLA

Grounded - Modern Landscape Architecture
Photo of a contemporary glass house exterior in San Diego.

Indoor/Outdoor Space

Crisp Architects

Photographer: Rob Karosis Landscape architect: Conte and Conte
Inspiration for a classic house exterior in New York.

Beautiful Home

Supple Homes, Inc

Inspiration for a large and white modern bungalow render detached house in San Francisco with a metal roof and a flat roof.

Traditional Exterior

This is an example of a traditional house exterior in Atlanta.

Sears Road

Oak Hill Architects

Roof Color: Weathered Wood Siding Color: Benjamin Moore matched to C2 Paint's Wood Ash Color.
Photo of a gey and large traditional two floor detached house in Boston with wood cladding and a shingle roof.

Modern Victorian Farmhouse

Madi Mali Homes, LLC

Inspiration for a large and gey victorian two floor house exterior in Kansas City with mixed cladding.

Love Shack

Gary Justiss Architect

Open Kitchen and Living areas. Jack Gardner Photography
This is an example of a medium sized and white modern render detached house in Other with three floors, a flat roof and a metal roof.

Staging

One Coast Design

A piece from my 'Reflections Series' floating about a beautiful fireplace in Miami...I just love the 'half inside/half outside' vibe of this south florida space.

Front Entrance

Mermans Architecture & Design, PLLC

Inspiration for a traditional brick house exterior in Charlotte with three floors and a pitched roof.

Weatherford New Construction

Just the Thing Decorating, Staging, and Windows

Here in the top of the hill country, clients are looking for a transitional look with great empty nester function. Many buyers have sold ranches and want to move to brand new homes. Ann Bridgman of Just the Thing Decorating chose finishes for these Le Paris spec homes.

Modern One Story Florida Home

Laura of Pembroke

Interior Design, Furnishings, Lighting: lauraofpembroke.com Photography: © meparkerproductions.com Residential Designer: saterdesign.com
Inspiration for a medium sized and white modern bungalow detached house in Miami.

Low Country in the City

Curran & Co. Architects

Photo of a white traditional two floor brick detached house in Atlanta with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

New Build, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire.

Amanda Neilson Interiors

Lucy Williams Photography
Photo of a medium sized and brown modern two floor brick house exterior in Kent with a pitched roof.

Cedar Grove, Whistler's first Rammed Earth House

One Eyed Woodworks

Notice the rammed earth wall behind the chair. It looks like a mountain poking out of a sea of clouds.
Design ideas for a modern house exterior in Toronto.

Canso Transformation

K WINN Custom Building Group Inc.

swinnphoto
Gey traditional split-level house exterior in Toronto with wood cladding.

Craftsman Exterior

Photo of a medium sized and gey traditional two floor house exterior in Toronto with mixed cladding and a pitched roof.

Randall Mars

Randall Mars Architects

Nestled around a weeping oak, this new house transitions from a more traditional neighborhood by layering materials, revealing the more modern materials away from the street.

Grey 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 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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