Traditional Blue House Exterior Ideas and Designs

Medium sized and green traditional two floor detached house in Minneapolis with wood cladding, a shingle roof and a pitched roof.

Classical New England Shingle and Stone Home

Sanford Custom Builders, Inc

Built by Sanford Custom Builders and custom designed by Jan Gleysteen Architects, this classical shingle and stone home offers finely crafted architectural details throughout. The home is situated on a gentle knoll and is approached by a circular receiving court. Amenities include 5 en-suite bedrooms including a master bedroom with adjoining luxurious spa bath, walk up office suite with additional bath, media/movie theater room, step-down mahogany family room, first floor office with wood paneling and barrel vaulted ceilings. On the lower level there is a gym, wet bar and billiard room.

Southern Oceanfront

Island Architects

Ocean Front Elevation with Covered Porch, Raised Patio and Brick Chimneys
Expansive and brown traditional house exterior in Charleston with three floors, a pitched roof and wood cladding.

High Street, Willoughby (2)

Cordony Group

Refreshed throughout to display its classical Federation features, the home showcases multiple sundrenched living areas and charismatic wraparound gardens; innately warm and inviting. -Crisply painted inside and out, brand-new carpeting -Formal lounge with decorative fireplace, linked dining room -Large separate family and dining room at the rear bathed in sunlight through walls of glass -Expansive level backyard planted with mature flowering trees -Leaded timber windows, high ornate ceilings throughout

European Tutor Estate

Hendel Homes

Inspiration for an expansive and brown traditional two floor house exterior in Minneapolis with stone cladding and a pitched roof.

Our houses in The Cliffs Communities

Evergreen Custom Construction

Inspiration for a classic house exterior in Baltimore.

Southern Traditional - Bloomfield Hills

Patrick Dyke Collaborative l.l.c.

Services included Architectural Design, Hardscape Design and partial Interior Design assistance.
Expansive and white traditional house exterior in Detroit with three floors, wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Brickyard Plantation Residence

Spivey Architects, Inc.

Newport653
This is an example of a white and large classic two floor detached house in Charleston with wood cladding and a mixed material roof.

Urbandale, IA - Exterior Detailing & Color - Eclectic

Catherine Renae Thomas Design Co.

Paul Gates
Inspiration for an expansive and blue classic bungalow house exterior in Other with mixed cladding and a hip roof.

Car Enthusiast Lake House

Lowell Custom Homes

Lowell Custom Homes, Lake Geneva, WI. Lake house in Fontana, Wi. Classic shingle style architecture featuring fine exterior detailing and finished in Benjamin Moore’s Great Barrington Green HC122 with French Vanilla trim. The roof is Cedar Shake with Copper Gutters and Downspouts.

Three Stories

Garman Builders Inc.

A view of the exterior three stories - the daylight basement and the two stories above with double deck areas and patio below.
Design ideas for an expansive and beige classic house exterior in Other with three floors and a hip roof.

Cliff Side

Patrick Ahearn Architect

Greg Premru
Photo of an expansive and gey traditional house exterior in Boston with three floors, mixed cladding and a pitched roof.

Hamptons Style Spec House in Alamo, CA

The ADDRESS Company

Photo of a large and gey traditional two floor house exterior in San Francisco with wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Orono Artisan 2016 Tour Home

Gordon James Construction

With an updated, coastal feel, this cottage-style residence is right at home in its Orono setting. The inspired architecture pays homage to the graceful tradition of historic homes in the area, yet every detail has been carefully planned to meet today’s sensibilities. Here, reclaimed barnwood and bluestone meet glass mosaic and marble-like Cambria in perfect balance.

May 2016 Suncoast Edition

HOME & DESIGN MAGAZINE NAPLES

This home was featured in the May 2016 edition of HOME & DESIGN Magazine. To see the rest of the home tour as well as other luxury homes featured, visit http://www.homeanddesign.net/coastal-craftsman/

3 Creek

Snake River Interiors

A custom home in Jackson, Wyoming
This is an example of a large and beige traditional two floor house exterior in Other with stone cladding and a pitched roof.

Homes tweet Homes

Bryan Assoc. Inc. Architects

Shingle Hill -This center entry home is balanced by an offset front porch.
Design ideas for a medium sized and gey traditional two floor detached house in Chicago with vinyl cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.

Grove Street Project

Thom Brajkovich, Architect

Small and gey traditional two floor house exterior in San Luis Obispo with a pitched roof.

Beverly Hills Mansion Makeover - Before

Bauer Design Group

This is where we would put the water feature. We also proposed a change to the floor plan that would allow us to create a two story space in the living room.

English Revival

42 North - Architecture + Design

This style of home is not common to the area, and it’s becoming a lost art.Several elevations were drawn, but the client kept gravitating toward the all-brick English revival elements. They wanted the best of both worlds: a vintage 1800s look with modern amenities incorporating communal spaces, but also private areas. Full bed brick and full thickness manmade limestone, intricate gables, plus the builder’s perfectionist tendencies resulted in a stunning showcase for the entire team. Bill Lindhout Photography

Traditional Blue 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 traditional 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 traditional 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 traditional 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 traditional 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 traditional exterior architecture choices for your house designs.

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