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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.
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.
Brodecky House: Front Facade
Brodecky House: Front Facade
Atlas ArchitectsAtlas Architects
The front facade is composed of bricks, shiplap timber cladding and James Hardie Scyon Axon cladding, painted in Dulux Blackwood Bay. Photography: Tess Kelly
Custom Craftsman Home
Custom Craftsman Home
Leading Edge BuildersLeading Edge Builders
Craftsman style home with Shake Shingles, Hardie Board Siding, and Fypon Tapered Columns.
Inspiration for a medium sized and beige traditional bungalow concrete detached house in Orlando with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Midcentury Kling Residence Renovation
Midcentury Kling Residence Renovation
k YODER design, LLCk YODER design, LLC
Low slung stone gable end walls create the iconic form and frame the glass open areas that bisects the center of the cruciform plan. © Jeffrey Totaro, photographer
N Maney Avenue
N Maney Avenue
J Taylor DesignsJ Taylor Designs
Design ideas for a medium sized and white rural two floor house exterior in Nashville with wood cladding.
Mullen
Mullen
Austin Impressions - A Design and Build FirmAustin Impressions - A Design and Build Firm
Exterior front with cantilevered carport and cedar siding.
Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary bungalow house exterior in Austin with mixed cladding.
Street view
Street view
Tim Andersen ArchitectTim Andersen Architect
Exterior of the house was transformed with minor changes to enhance its Cape Cod character. Entry is framed with pair of crape myrtle trees, and new picket fence encloses front garden. Exterior colors are Benjamin Moore: "Smokey Taupe" for siding, "White Dove" for trim, and "Pale Daffodil" for door and windows.
James Hardie Homes
James Hardie Homes
Erdmann Exterior DesignsErdmann Exterior Designs
This is an example of a medium sized and green classic two floor house exterior in Chicago with mixed cladding and a pitched roof.
ALDERLY
ALDERLY
Building BuddyBuilding Buddy
Pool built adjacent to the house to maximize yard space but also to create a nice water feature viewable through two picture windows.
Photo of a medium sized and white classic two floor detached house in Brisbane with concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof, a metal roof, a black roof and shiplap cladding.
Windsor Park - Scandinavian Modern
Windsor Park - Scandinavian Modern
Andison Residential DesignAndison Residential Design
Photo of a medium sized and white scandi two floor brick detached house in Calgary with a pitched roof, a shingle roof and a black roof.
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.
Courtyard House
Courtyard House
Meadows Architecture PLLCMeadows Architecture PLLC
This is an example of a medium sized and brown modern bungalow detached house in Raleigh with wood cladding, a lean-to roof, a metal roof, a grey roof and shiplap cladding.
Nocona Barndominium
Nocona Barndominium
First Choice Custom BuildersFirst Choice Custom Builders
Custom Barndominium
Inspiration for a medium sized and gey rustic bungalow detached house in Austin with metal cladding, a pitched roof, a metal roof and a grey roof.
Relaxed family home in Kensington, W8
Relaxed family home in Kensington, W8
Jemimah BarnettJemimah Barnett
Inspiration for a medium sized and white traditional render terraced house in London with four floors and a butterfly roof.
Modern Farmhouse Exterior
Modern Farmhouse Exterior
Lifestyle by Stadler Custom HomesLifestyle by Stadler Custom Homes
Exterior of the modern farmhouse using white limestone and a black metal roof.
Photo of a medium sized and white rural bungalow detached house in Austin with stone cladding, a lean-to roof and a metal roof.
Britton Whole House
Britton Whole House
ReCraftReCraft
Photo of a medium sized and blue classic two floor house exterior in Portland with vinyl cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Vivienda en el Puerto de la Torre
Vivienda en el Puerto de la Torre
MAHATMA ARQUITECTOSMAHATMA ARQUITECTOS
Photo of a medium sized and white mediterranean bungalow detached house in Malaga with mixed cladding, a flat roof and a mixed material roof.
Greenlea
Greenlea
Visbeen ArchitectsVisbeen Architects
Medium sized and white farmhouse two floor detached house in Grand Rapids with concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof and a mixed material roof.
Denver Urban Craftsman Bungalow Pop-top | Board and Batten
Denver Urban Craftsman Bungalow Pop-top | Board and Batten
BellwetherBellwether
This urban craftsman style bungalow was a pop-top renovation to make room for a growing family. We transformed a stucco exterior to this beautiful board and batten farmhouse style. You can find this home near Sloans Lake in Denver in an up and coming neighborhood of west Denver. Colorado Siding Repair replaced the siding and panted the white farmhouse with Sherwin Williams Duration exterior paint.

Affordable Medium Sized 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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