Medium Sized House Exterior Ideas and Designs

Wohnhaus in Dresden

Architekturfotografie Steffen Spitzner

Inspiration for a white and medium sized modern house exterior in Other with three floors and a flat roof.

Spanish Oaks Entry

Hugh Jefferson Randolph Architects

Inspiration for a medium sized mediterranean bungalow render house exterior in Austin.

New River Bank Barn

Blackburn Architects, PC

Adaptive reuse of an 1800s bank barn into a "party barn" to host gatherings of friends and family. Winner of an AIA Merit Award and Southern Living Magazine's Home Award in Historic Restoration. Photo by Maxwell MacKenzie.

Modern is Modern Again in Portola Valley

Mark Brand Architecture

For this remodel in Portola Valley, California we were hired to rejuvenate a circa 1980 modernist house clad in deteriorating vertical wood siding. The house included a greenhouse style sunroom which got so unbearably hot as to be unusable. We opened up the floor plan and completely demolished the sunroom, replacing it with a new dining room open to the remodeled living room and kitchen. We added a new office and deck above the new dining room and replaced all of the exterior windows, mostly with oversized sliding aluminum doors by Fleetwood to open the house up to the wooded hillside setting. Stainless steel railings protect the inhabitants where the sliding doors open more than 50 feet above the ground below. We replaced the wood siding with stucco in varying tones of gray, white and black, creating new exterior lines, massing and proportions. We also created a new master suite upstairs and remodeled the existing powder room. Architecture by Mark Brand Architecture. Interior Design by Mark Brand Architecture in collaboration with Applegate Tran Interiors. Lighting design by Luminae Souter. Photos by Christopher Stark Photography.

Green Cube - LEED Platinum Showhome

RE.DZINE

To receive information on products and materials used on this project, please contact me via http://www.iredzine.com Photos by Jenifer Koskinen- Merritt Design Photo

Birchgrove Rd

Daniel Boddam

Inspiration for a medium sized and black contemporary house exterior in Sydney with three floors.

Abbots Way

AR Design Studio Ltd

Photographer: Martin Gardner, spacialimages.com
Photo of a medium sized and white modern two floor detached house in Hampshire with mixed cladding and a flat roof.

2012 HGTV Green Home

J Steven Kemp Architect

Photos copyright 2012 Scripps Network, LLC. Used with permission, all rights reserved.
This is an example of a medium sized and white country detached house in Atlanta with stone cladding, three floors, a pitched roof and a metal roof.

30th Street Residence

Levy Art + Architecture

Paul Dyer, Photography
Inspiration for a medium sized and multi-coloured contemporary two floor detached house in San Francisco with mixed cladding and a flat roof.

Refugium Læsø

Arkinord Arkitekter

This is an example of a medium sized and green contemporary two floor concrete house exterior in Aalborg with a flat roof.

Knowles Residence - Exterior

Coates Design Architecture + Interiors

This is an example of a medium sized contemporary two floor house exterior in Seattle with wood cladding.

Columbia Heights DC Full Row House Remodel

Four Brothers Design + Build

Greg Hadley
Photo of a medium sized and red classic two floor brick house exterior in DC Metro with a pitched roof.

eichler in marinwood

building Lab, inc.

Eichler in Marinwood - At the larger scale of the property existed a desire to soften and deepen the engagement between the house and the street frontage. As such, the landscaping palette consists of textures chosen for subtlety and granularity. Spaces are layered by way of planting, diaphanous fencing and lighting. The interior engages the front of the house by the insertion of a floor to ceiling glazing at the dining room. Jog-in path from street to house maintains a sense of privacy and sequential unveiling of interior/private spaces. This non-atrium model is invested with the best aspects of the iconic eichler configuration without compromise to the sense of order and orientation. photo: scott hargis

Platinum House - exterior

Coates Design Architecture + Interiors

Platinum House exterior
Design ideas for a medium sized and beige contemporary two floor detached house in Seattle with wood cladding.

Boxenbaum Residence

Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects

Situated on a sloping corner lot across from an elementary school, the Boxenbaum House orients itself away from two perimeter streets towards rear and side outdoor spaces and gardens for privacy and serenity. (Photo: Juergen Nogai)

Custom Aragon Residence

Dalrymple | Sallis Architecture

Greg Reigler
Photo of a medium sized and white coastal two floor house exterior in Atlanta with wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Mountain Cabin

Mindful Designs, Inc.

Photo of a medium sized and brown rustic bungalow detached house in Other with a lean-to roof, wood cladding and a shingle roof.

Maison V Villennes sur seine

Olivier Chabaud Architecte - Paris & Luberon

Olivier Chabaud
Inspiration for a medium sized and white traditional detached house in Paris with three floors, a pitched roof and a brown roof.

700 haus Trentham

Glow Design Group

Peter Clarke
This is an example of a medium sized and gey scandi bungalow house exterior in Melbourne with metal cladding.

Shevlin Residence

Erik Oldham Architect LLC

The house opens onto a south-facing patio. The clerestories surround the living spaces with light and sky views.
Design ideas for a medium sized and beige contemporary two floor house exterior in Other with wood cladding and 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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