House Exterior with a Shingle Roof Ideas and Designs

Valley Street Country Club Hills New Construction

This new construction features an open concept main floor with a fireplace in the living room and family room, a fully finished basement complete with a full bath, bedroom, media room, exercise room, and storage under the garage. The second floor has a master suite, four bedrooms, five bathrooms, and a laundry room.

Transitional Exterior

This is an example of a medium sized and gey traditional two floor detached house in Charlotte with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Ravenna Single-Family New Construction

Beachworks LLC

Front exterior of neighboring home.
Inspiration for a green traditional two floor detached house in Seattle with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Lamberth Drive

Plank & Pillow

Henry Jones
White country two floor detached house in Other with concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

ENDSTONE III

Covenant Building & Design

Photo of a gey traditional two floor detached house in Richmond with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Plymouth

Vision Interiors

Charming traditional exterior with white siding and soft gray shutters. Details like the eyebrow window and flower boxes add to the charm and warmth of this home! Photographer: Ashley Avila Photography Interior Design: Vision Interiors by Visbeen Architect: Visbeen Architects Builder: Joel Peterson Homes

Buckley Custom Home

Rainier Custom Homes

Design ideas for a medium sized and blue traditional bungalow detached house in Seattle with concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

West University

Ashwood Designs and Custom Homes

Design ideas for an expansive and white classic two floor brick detached house in Houston with a hip roof and a shingle roof.

New Home Construction

Clawson Architects, LLC

On the main street heading into Maplewood Village sat a home that was completely out of scale and did not exhibit the grandeur of the other homes surrounding it. When the home became available, our client seized the opportunity to create a home that is more in scale and character with the neighborhood. By creating a home with period details and traditional materials, this new home dovetails seamlessly into the the rhythm of the street while providing all the modern conveniences today's busy life demands. Clawson Architects was pleased to work in collaboration with the owners to create a new home design that takes into account the context, period and scale of the adjacent homes without being a "replica". It recalls details from the English Arts and Crafts style. The stucco finish on the exterior is consistent with the stucco finish on one of the adjacent homes as well as others on the block.

2018 NW Idea House

Sage Interiors

Design ideas for a white rural two floor detached house in Seattle with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Sunset Idea House

Lauren Nelson Design

Design ideas for a gey rustic two floor detached house in San Francisco with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Starr Homes for 2018 Artisan Home Tour in Kansas City

Wilson Lighting

This is an example of a large and white contemporary two floor detached house in Kansas City with mixed cladding and a shingle roof.

Front elevation

Daniel Contelmo Architects

Photographer: Daniel Contelmo Jr.
Medium sized and gey nautical detached house in New York with three floors, mixed cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Kirkwood Avenue 1 of 3

Bynum Design

Design ideas for a white rural two floor detached house in Nashville with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Woodside

GITTLEMAN CONSTRUCTION

Brown rustic two floor detached house in Detroit with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Garage

Coastal Signature Homes

Tom Jenkins Photography Siding color: Sherwin Williams 7045 (Intelectual Grey) Shutter color: Sherwin Williams 7047 (Porpoise) Trim color: Sherwin Williams 7008 (Alabaster) Windows: Andersen

Soludden

Flagg Coastal Homes

An evening view of the expansive second story deck with bi-fold doors and "killer" ocean views. Ed Gohlich
This is an example of a large and gey coastal two floor detached house in San Diego with concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Whitley Residence

True Homes Photography

Hunter Coon
Photo of a white contemporary two floor brick detached house in Dallas with a shingle roof.

Black and White Carolina Farmhouse

Clopay

Clopay Coachman Collection carriage style garage door with crossbuck design blends seamlessly into this modern farmhouse exterior. It takes up a substantial amount of the exterior but windows and detailing that echoes porch railing make it look warm and welcoming. Model shown: Design 21 with REC 13 windows. Low-maintenance insulated steel door with composite overlays. Photos by Andy Frame, copyright 2018. This image is the exclusive property of Andy Frame / Andy Frame Photography and is protected under the United States and International copyright laws.

Rustic Exterior

Photo of a brown rustic bungalow detached house in Seattle with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

House Exterior with a Shingle 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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