Shabby-Chic Style Detached House Ideas and Designs

Ambrose Natural Thin Stone Veneer Residential Exterior

This warm and welcoming cottage style house is made with the Quarry Mill's Ambrose natural thin stone veneer. Ambrose is a dimensional style stone with a beautiful range of colors. A natural limestone, Ambrose has vibrant colors that set it apart due to the mineral staining. This natural stone veneer is well suited for both large and small scale walls.

Projects

Julie Evans Architecture & Design

Large and yellow romantic split-level detached house in New York with stone cladding and a half-hip roof.

Village Exterior

Homes by Pinnacle, Inc.

Photo of a gey shabby-chic style detached house in Chicago with concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Carmel Remodel

Will Bullock-Painting & Restoring

Photo of a large and beige shabby-chic style two floor clay detached house in San Francisco with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

West Coast Cape Cod

Ferreira Inc

It's the little details Photo Credit: Old Adobe Studios
This is an example of a medium sized and green romantic two floor detached house in San Luis Obispo with concrete fibreboard cladding and a shingle roof.

Cheltanham Quirky

Designworx New Zealand

Photo of a small and blue vintage bungalow detached house in Auckland with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a metal roof.

Earlwood

The Site Foreman

This lovely old home has been given a new lease on life, and will provide a warm sanctuary for a new generation, just as it did long ago.
This is an example of a medium sized and gey romantic bungalow detached house in Sydney with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a metal roof.

Covered Patio

Fratantoni Luxury Estates Design/Build/Remodeling

We love this covered patio featuring a wood ceiling with exposed beams and a custom exterior fireplace mantel!
This is an example of an expansive and multi-coloured romantic two floor detached house in Phoenix with mixed cladding, a pitched roof, a mixed material roof and a brown roof.

New England Barn Style

American Post & Beam

Photography by Great Island Photo
Photo of a medium sized shabby-chic style two floor detached house in Boston with mixed cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

WaterSound Beach Gulf Front Living: 210 Coopersmith Lane

The Beach Group Properties, LLC

Perfectly positioned on one of the largest home sites in WaterSound Beach and offering breath-taking panoramic Gulf views, this 7-bedroom beach house boasts unmatched outdoor space perfect for hosting guests or large family gatherings. The expansive courtyard offers a spacious pool deck with a large pool, a pergola with an outdoor dining area and a covered summer kitchen.

San Mateo Addition

Di Vittorio Construction, Inc.

Design ideas for a medium sized and blue vintage bungalow render detached house in San Francisco with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Pearl's Place

Unique Homestays

Unique Home Stays
Photo of a brown shabby-chic style detached house in Other with a half-hip roof.

French Provincial Cottage - Elements Design Build Greenville SC

Elements Design Build

Stunning French Provincial stucco cottage with integrated stone walled garden. Designed and Built by Elements Design Build. The warm shaker roof just adds to the warmth and detail. www.elementshomebuilder.com www.elementshouseplans.com

Mather Cottage

User

Mark Lohmann
Inspiration for a large and green romantic two floor detached house in Milwaukee with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Courtyard

Fratantoni Luxury Estates Design/Build/Remodeling

We love this master bedroom featuring a custom ceiling, wood floors, and a custom fireplace mantel we can't get enough of!
Design ideas for an expansive and multi-coloured vintage two floor detached house in Phoenix with mixed cladding, a pitched roof, a mixed material roof and a brown roof.

Royal Dusk Natural Thin Stone Veneer Residential Exterior

Quarry Mill

This beautiful home showcases the Quarry Mill's Royal Dusk natural thin stone veneer. Royal Dusk is a colorful blend of natural Wisconsin dolomitic limestone. The stone showcases the variations in colors, shapes, and textures that a single quarry can produce. Due to the stone all coming from the same quarry, the mix of pieces aesthetically flow well together forming an old-world look. The base of Royal Dusk is the linear neutral grey pieces that soften the wall. From there, irregular mosaic style pieces are added to mix in a variety of colors. Lastly, a small percentage of seamface pieces are added to create yet another element of color and texture.

The Fable

Unique Homestays

This is an example of a medium sized shabby-chic style two floor detached house in Cornwall with a pink house and a pitched roof.

Villa Cita

Federico Viola Fotografia

© Federico Viola Fotografia - 2019
Design ideas for a medium sized and yellow romantic split-level concrete detached house in Other with a hip roof and a tiled roof.

New England Barn Style

American Post & Beam

Photography by Great Island Photo
Photo of a medium sized shabby-chic style two floor detached house in Burlington with mixed cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Carmel French Home

Will Bullock-Painting & Restoring

Photo of a large and beige vintage two floor detached house in San Francisco with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a tiled roof.

Shabby-Chic Style Detached House 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 shabby-chic style 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 shabby-chic style 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 shabby-chic style 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 shabby-chic style 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 shabby-chic style exterior architecture choices for your house designs.

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