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Medium Sized House Exterior Ideas and Designs

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Front Exterior
Carrick Custom Home DesignCarrick Custom Home Design
Craftsman Style Exterior
Inspiration for a medium sized classic two floor house exterior in Salt Lake City.
New Orleans Style Shotgun
New Orleans Style Shotgun
RHD HomesRHD Homes
Medium sized and blue traditional bungalow house exterior in New Orleans with concrete fibreboard cladding and a hip roof.
Charming Cottage
Charming Cottage
Dave Tilly & Associates LLCDave Tilly & Associates LLC
Complete renovation of a small post-war cottage to a full size 3-level home. Dave Tilly (builder), Jeni Spaeth (designer), Don Kirmizi (roof planning)
TRG Architects
TRG Architects
TRG Architecture + Interior DesignTRG Architecture + Interior Design
Photos by Bernard Andre
This is an example of a medium sized and brown contemporary two floor detached house in San Francisco with mixed cladding and a lean-to roof.
1A Third Street Black Rock 3193
1A Third Street Black Rock 3193
Urban AbodeUrban Abode
1A Third Street Black Rock 3193 - Residential Urban Abode Architectural photography for marketing residential, commercial & short stays & small business. https://www.urbanabode.com.au/urban-photography/ _______ . . . #photography #urbanabode #urbanphotography #yourabodeourcanvas #melbourne #australia #urbankiosk #yourabodeourcanvas
Traditional Craftsman in the Setting of Black Mountain
Traditional Craftsman in the Setting of Black Mountain
Living Stone Design + BuildLiving Stone Design + Build
Medium sized and beige traditional two floor detached house in Other with a pitched roof, wood cladding and a mixed material roof.
Tilt-Shift House
Tilt-Shift House
ANX / Aaron Neubert ArchitectsANX / Aaron Neubert Architects
Brian Thomas Jones, Alex Zarour
Design ideas for a medium sized and black contemporary detached house in Los Angeles with three floors, concrete fibreboard cladding, a flat roof and a green roof.
Bauhaus-Look Haus & Fassade
Bauhaus-Look Haus & Fassade
Inspiration for a white and medium sized modern two floor house exterior in Berlin with a flat roof.
Rockridge Developments / Westeck Windows and Doors Partnership
Rockridge Developments / Westeck Windows and Doors Partnership
Westeck Windows and DoorsWesteck Windows and Doors
Revival Arts
Photo of a medium sized classic house exterior in Seattle.
Shaiman Residence
Shaiman Residence
Juan Felipe Goldstein Design Co.Juan Felipe Goldstein Design Co.
Location: Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, CA, USA Total remodel and new steel carport. The carport was inspired by the great 1950's gas station structures in California. The original house had a very appealing look from the1960's but was in disrepair, and needed a lot of TLC. Juan Felipe Goldstein Design Co.
Upper Noe House
Upper Noe House
Winder Gibson ArchitectsWinder Gibson Architects
This home is in Noe Valley, a highly desirable and growing neighborhood of San Francisco. As young highly-educated families move into the area, we are remodeling and adding on to the aging homes found there. This project remodeled the entire existing two story house and added a third level, capturing the incredible views toward downtown. The design features integral color stucco, zinc roofing, an International Orange staircase, eco-teak cabinets and concrete counters. A flowing sequence of spaces were choreographed from the entry through to the family room.
Privathaus Ellwangen
Privathaus Ellwangen
architekturlevelarchitekturlevel
www.architekturlevel.de
Inspiration for a white and medium sized modern two floor house exterior in Stuttgart with a flat roof.
The Seaside Model Home Patchen Wilkes
The Seaside Model Home Patchen Wilkes
Jimmy Nash HomesJimmy Nash Homes
These photos are of a new model home built by Jimmy Nash Homes in 2012. The plan is the Seaside and it is built in Patchen Wilkes neighborhood in Lexington, KY. Photos by Deborah Stigall, Jimmy Nash Homes Marketing Director
East Hampton Beach Cottage
East Hampton Beach Cottage
ChangoChango
East Hampton beach house facade. Blue door and natural cedar shingles. See more at: http://chango.co/portfolio/east-hampton-beach-cottage/ Photo by: Ball & Albanese
Windsor Residence
Windsor Residence
Carlton EdwardsCarlton Edwards
David Dietrich
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary house exterior in Charlotte.
Edgewater Hillside
Edgewater Hillside
Vita Design GroupVita Design Group
Inspiration for a gey and medium sized beach style two floor detached house in New York with wood cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
中海岸のコートハウス
中海岸のコートハウス
村田淳建築研究室　JUN MURATA ARCHITECTS村田淳建築研究室　JUN MURATA ARCHITECTS
村田淳建築研究室／南の前面道路から見た外観です。１階左がアプローチ。 ２階右は屋上庭園で、奥には１階の中庭、そして３階にも屋上庭園があり立体的につながっています。
Photo of a medium sized and gey industrial two floor concrete house exterior in Other with a flat roof.
Modern Farm House
Modern Farm House
Brett Bulthuis PhotographyBrett Bulthuis Photography
©BrettBulthuis2018
Inspiration for a medium sized and white country two floor detached house in Indianapolis with a hip roof and a metal roof.
EINFAMILIENWOHNHAUS MIT EINLIEGERWOHNUNG UND TIEFGARAGE
EINFAMILIENWOHNHAUS MIT EINLIEGERWOHNUNG UND TIEFGARAGE
Hauptvogel-Schütt PlanungsgruppeHauptvogel-Schütt Planungsgruppe
Inspiration for a medium sized and black contemporary two floor house exterior in Other with a flat roof and mixed cladding.
Haus H
Haus H
ZHACZHAC
Peter Hinschläger
Inspiration for a medium sized and black contemporary two floor house exterior in Cologne with a flat roof.

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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