House Exterior with Three Floors Ideas and Designs

Victorian Renovation

Innovative Custom Homes, Inc.

IDCI
Green victorian house exterior in Chicago with three floors, concrete fibreboard cladding and a pitched roof.

Hampton House Hinsdale

Megan Hickman Design

Inspiration for a gey country house exterior in Chicago with three floors, wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Bahamas

Atlantic Breeze Storm Shutters, Inc.

Bahama Shutters enhance the tropical look of your home while offering everyday use and protection. While still allowing a cool coastal breeze, the Bahama Shutter provides shading protection from the sun. The added privacy benefit of Bahama Shutters eliminates the need for interior window blinds or shutters, while still allowing in light and air flow in the closed position.

繋がりのある家

株式会社テラジマアーキテクツ

大きく設けた窓が印象的なシンプルモダンの外観
This is an example of a medium sized and white modern house exterior in Tokyo with three floors and a flat roof.

Waterfront Shingle Style Residence, Connecticut

Brooks and Falotico Associates, Inc.

Phillip Ennis
Gey classic house exterior in New York with three floors and stone cladding.

2015 Midwest Home Luxury Home #1 - Denali Custom Homes

Spacecrafting / Architectural Photography

Builder: Denali Custom Homes - Architectural Designer: Alexander Design Group - Interior Designer: Studio M Interiors - Photo: Spacecrafting Photography

Foothills Mountain Timber

Dean Thomas Design Group

Inspiration for a large and beige traditional house exterior in Calgary with three floors and mixed cladding.

Brite Avenue House

Michael Lewis Architects PC

Photo of a white and large classic detached house in New York with three floors, a hip roof, mixed cladding and a shingle roof.

Custom Deck

Futuras Builders

Design ideas for a medium sized and brown rustic house exterior in San Francisco with three floors, wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Wellesley Country Home

The Lagasse Group, LLC

Exterior of Wellesley Country Home project. Architect: Morehouse MacDonald & Associates. Landscape Design: Gregory Lombardi Design. Photo: Sam Gray Photography

Private Residence, Hillsboro Mile, Hillsboro Beach, Florida

Susan Lachance Interior Design

Brantley Photography
Inspiration for a blue world-inspired house exterior in Miami with three floors, wood cladding and a flat roof.

Bethesda, MD Transitional Contemporary Custom House

FineCraft Contractors, Inc.

2016 MBIA Gold Award Winner: From whence an old one-story house once stood now stands this 5,000+ SF marvel that Finecraft built in the heart of Bethesda, MD. Thomson & Cooke Architects Susie Soleimani Photography

Traditional House Exterior

Red classic brick house exterior in Other with three floors and a flat roof.

Nantucket - Lagrange

Michael Buss Architects, Ltd

Palo Dubrk Photography, Mcnaughton Brothers Development
Photo of a yellow traditional house exterior in Chicago with three floors and concrete fibreboard cladding.

Lakeview - Southport Corridor - Janssen

Middlefork Development LLC

This gracious property in the award-winning Blaine school district - and just off the Southport Corridor - marries an old world European design sensibility with contemporary technologies and unique artisan details. With more than 5,200 square feet, the home has four bedrooms and three bathrooms on the second floor, including a luxurious master suite with a private terrace. The house also boasts a distinct foyer; formal living and dining rooms designed in an open-plan concept; an expansive, eat-in, gourmet kitchen which is open to the first floor great room; lower-level family room; an attached, heated, 2-½ car garage with roof deck; a penthouse den and roof deck; and two additional rooms on the lower level which could be used as bedrooms, home offices or exercise rooms. The home, designed with an extra-wide floorplan, achieved through side yard relief, also has considerable, professionally-landscaped outdoor living spaces. This brick and limestone residence has been designed with family-functional experiences and classically proportioned spaces in mind. Highly-efficient environmental technologies have been integrated into the design and construction and the plan also takes into consideration the incorporation of all types of advanced communications systems. The home went under contract in less than 45 days in 2011. Jim Yochum

Newport Victorian

Anthony Crisafulli Photography

© Anthony Crisafulli 2014
This is an example of a large and green victorian house exterior in Providence with three floors and a pitched roof.

Modern Mountain Home

StudioHOFF Architecture

This 2,000 square foot vacation home is located in the rocky mountains. The home was designed for thermal efficiency and to maximize flexibility of space. Sliding panels convert the two bedroom home into 5 separate sleeping areas at night, and back into larger living spaces during the day. The structure is constructed of SIPs (structurally insulated panels). The glass walls, window placement, large overhangs, sunshade and concrete floors are designed to take advantage of passive solar heating and cooling, while the masonry thermal mass heats and cools the home at night.

Ludowici Renovation Award

JUST ROOF IT - More Core Construction

Ludowici Revovation Award -2009 First Place East Coast. Third Place Nationally. Photo: Lou Handwerker
Design ideas for an expansive and beige mediterranean render detached house in New York with three floors, a hip roof and a shingle roof.

Storybook Home in Elm Grove, WI

Moore Designs Inc

With an expansive backyard for the client's children, this house will be a timeless residence for the family for generations to come.
Design ideas for a large and gey detached house in Milwaukee with three floors, stone cladding, a pitched roof and a mixed material roof.

Colorado Ski Home #4

Eggers Architecture, Inc.

The exterior entry court is built into the hillside. The drive enters under a log roof structure into the courtyard.
Large and brown rustic house exterior in Denver with three floors, wood cladding and a pitched roof.

House Exterior with Three Floors 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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