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Hickory Hill | Rustic Modern Cottage
Hickory Hill | Rustic Modern Cottage
Vision InteriorsVision Interiors
This cozy lake cottage skillfully incorporates a number of features that would normally be restricted to a larger home design. A glance of the exterior reveals a simple story and a half gable running the length of the home, enveloping the majority of the interior spaces. To the rear, a pair of gables with copper roofing flanks a covered dining area and screened porch. Inside, a linear foyer reveals a generous staircase with cascading landing. Further back, a centrally placed kitchen is connected to all of the other main level entertaining spaces through expansive cased openings. A private study serves as the perfect buffer between the homes master suite and living room. Despite its small footprint, the master suite manages to incorporate several closets, built-ins, and adjacent master bath complete with a soaker tub flanked by separate enclosures for a shower and water closet. Upstairs, a generous double vanity bathroom is shared by a bunkroom, exercise space, and private bedroom. The bunkroom is configured to provide sleeping accommodations for up to 4 people. The rear-facing exercise has great views of the lake through a set of windows that overlook the copper roof of the screened porch below.
Modern on the Metedeconck River
Modern on the Metedeconck River
Tokarski Millemann Architects, LLCTokarski Millemann Architects, LLC
Front Elevation featuring Nichia Panels and white stucco.
Inspiration for a small modern house exterior in New York.
Classic Lake House Custom Home
Classic Lake House Custom Home
Alair Homes ClemsonAlair Homes Clemson
This house features an open concept floor plan, with expansive windows that truly capture the 180-degree lake views. The classic design elements, such as white cabinets, neutral paint colors, and natural wood tones, help make this house feel bright and welcoming year round.
Horizontal Wood Fence Brown Treated Wood
Horizontal Wood Fence Brown Treated Wood
Groupe UboraGroupe Ubora
Horizontal Style Wood Fence Built With Brown Treated Wood.
Design ideas for a large modern house exterior in Other.
Eastport Annapolis Ready for Market
Eastport Annapolis Ready for Market
Julie SullivanJulie Sullivan
This historic home in Eastport section of Annapolis has a three color scheme. The red door and shutter color provides the pop against the tan siding. The porch floor is painted black with white trim.
Parkhill Homes
Parkhill Homes
Parkhill HomesParkhill Homes
Medium sized and white mediterranean two floor brick house exterior in Dallas.
Silver Lake Guest House
Silver Lake Guest House
Battle Associates, ArchitectsBattle Associates, Architects
This project was a Guest House for a long time Battle Associates Client. Smaller, smaller, smaller the owners kept saying about the guest cottage right on the water's edge. The result was an intimate, almost diminutive, two bedroom cottage for extended family visitors. White beadboard interiors and natural wood structure keep the house light and airy. The fold-away door to the screen porch allows the space to flow beautifully. Photographer: Nancy Belluscio
modern house numbers - customer photo
modern house numbers - customer photo
Modern House NumbersModern House Numbers
8" Palm Springs Aluminum Modern House Numbers (modernhousenumbers.com) available in 4", 6", 8", 12" or 15" high. aluminum numbers are 3/8" thick, brushed finish with a high quality clear coat and a 1/2" standoff providing a subtle shadow. Shout out to Denver Modern Fence for their awesome design and fabrication! www.denvermodernfence.com @DenverModFence photo credit : denver modern fence
Ridgeview
Ridgeview
Ridge Creek Custom HomesRidge Creek Custom Homes
Design ideas for a gey and medium sized classic two floor house exterior in Minneapolis with stone cladding and a pitched roof.
Craftsman Lite 2 Panel Flush-Glazed 3 Lite- Classic-Craft American
Craftsman Lite 2 Panel Flush-Glazed 3 Lite- Classic-Craft American
US Door & More IncUS Door & More Inc
American Style Collection™ fiberglass entry doors were inspired by early 1900s residential architecture. The collection complements many popular home designs, including Arts and Crafts, Bungalow, Cottage and Colonial Revival styles. Made with our patented AccuGrain™ technology, you get the look of high-grade wood with all of the durability of fiberglass. The exterior doors in this collection have the look and feel of a real wood front door — with solid wood square edges, architecturally correct stiles, rails and panels. Unlike genuine wood doors, they resist splitting, cracking and rotting. Door Craftsman Lite 2 Panel Flush-Glazed 3 Lite Style IDs Available Sizes Available Options CCA230 3'0" x 6'8" Flush Glazed (?) Sidelites Left Sidelite Style ID Available Sizes Features CCA3400SL 12" x 6'8" 14" x 6'8" Flush Glazed (?) Right Sidelite Style ID Available Sizes Features CCA3400SL 12" x 6'8" 14" x 6'8" Flush Glazed (?) Transom Transom Style ID Available Sizes 19220T 30D12 - Rectangular 30D14 - Rectangular Finish Option: Stainable Paintable Available Accessories: Dentil Shelves
16th Street Bungalow
16th Street Bungalow
MPR ArchitectureMPR Architecture
Front elevation of house with wooden porch and stone piers.
This is an example of a large and blue classic two floor detached house in DC Metro with concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof, a shingle roof, a grey roof and shiplap cladding.
House in the suburbs
House in the suburbs
Ande Bunbury ArchitectsAnde Bunbury Architects
Inter-war brick home with steel-framed corner windows
Photo of a medium sized midcentury bungalow brick detached house in Melbourne with a hip roof, a tiled roof and a black roof.
MCM Look / Blending Materials
MCM Look / Blending Materials
Princeton Design CollaborativePrinceton Design Collaborative
Detail of front entry canopy pylon. photo by Jeffery Edward Tryon
Photo of a small and brown modern bungalow detached house in Newark with metal cladding, a flat roof, a metal roof, a black roof and shiplap cladding.
Spanish European Casita | Baja Norte California, Mexico
Spanish European Casita | Baja Norte California, Mexico
Leanne Michael L U X E lifestyle designLeanne Michael L U X E lifestyle design
view from front of home
Medium sized mediterranean house exterior in San Diego.
Hill Country Modern Farmhouse
Hill Country Modern Farmhouse
Bohannon Design TeamBohannon Design Team
Inspiration for a medium sized and white farmhouse bungalow side detached house in Dallas with mixed cladding, a mixed material roof, a grey roof and board and batten cladding.
Skandinavischer Traum aus Holz
Skandinavischer Traum aus Holz
Studio Klinker & Klunker GmbHStudio Klinker & Klunker GmbH
House Arne
Photo of a medium sized and white scandi bungalow detached house in Berlin with wood cladding, a pitched roof, a tiled roof, a black roof and shiplap cladding.
Light House
Light House
Coda WorkshopCoda Workshop
Extension and internal refurbishment in Kings Heath, Birmingham. We created a highly insulated and warm environment that is flooded with light.
Inspiration for a small and gey contemporary bungalow rear house exterior with stone cladding, a pitched roof, a tiled roof, a grey roof and shingles.
Bridge House
Bridge House
HAUS | Architecture For Modern LifestylesHAUS | Architecture For Modern Lifestyles
Covered Porch overlooks Pier Cove Valley - Welcome to Bridge House - Fenneville, Michigan - Lake Michigan, Saugutuck, Michigan, Douglas Michigan - HAUS | Architecture For Modern Lifestyles
Phoenixville Exterior
Phoenixville Exterior
Harth BuildersHarth Builders
Medium sized and beige classic two floor detached house in Philadelphia with vinyl cladding, a lean-to roof, a mixed material roof, a grey roof and shiplap cladding.
Mid-Century Renovation
Mid-Century Renovation
Wendy Wilson & AssociatesWendy Wilson & Associates
This mid-century ranch-style home in Pasadena, CA underwent a complete interior remodel and exterior face-lift-- including this vibrant cyan entry door with reeded glass panels and teak post wrap and address element.

Affordable 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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