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Beautiful Modern Craftsman Home
Beautiful Modern Craftsman Home
Havlicek Builders Inc.Havlicek Builders Inc.
Picture Perfect House
Design ideas for a traditional house exterior in Chicago.
South Jordan Project
South Jordan Project
Cedar + SteelCedar + Steel
Large and white traditional two floor detached house in Salt Lake City with mixed cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
South Jordan Project
South Jordan Project
Cedar + SteelCedar + Steel
Design ideas for a large and white classic two floor detached house in Salt Lake City with mixed cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
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Fenton Custom Home
Fenton Custom Home
Tim Hollerbach Designs, LLCTim Hollerbach Designs, LLC
Design ideas for a large and brown classic two floor detached house in St Louis with a hip roof, a shingle roof and mixed cladding.
Chang-Lee
Chang-Lee
Signature Custom HomesSignature Custom Homes
Inspiration for a medium sized and gey classic two floor detached house in Seattle with mixed cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Milwaukee Bay
Milwaukee Bay
Northworks Architects + PlannersNorthworks Architects + Planners
Menu Home Work On the Boards Culture Press Connect Milwaukee Bay Residence Milwaukee, Wisconsin PreviousNext About the Project Located in an historic district along the Milwaukee lakefront, this custom residence is designed to reflect the massing and scale of the neighborhood while exhibiting the clean lines and advanced materials of a new home. Open floor plans and an abundance of natural light provide the flexibility and comfort to address the needs of today’s lifestyle. A large underground garage offers multi-car parking and storage below an expansive rear yard and terrace. Photography: Reagen Taylor
Princeton Cottage Addition
Princeton Cottage Addition
Douglas R. Schotland ArchitectDouglas R. Schotland Architect
Design ideas for a small and white classic bungalow detached house in Philadelphia with wood cladding, a shingle roof and a pitched roof.
Painted Brick with Southern Charm
Painted Brick with Southern Charm
Wyrick Residential DesignWyrick Residential Design
Photo of a large and white classic two floor brick detached house in Houston with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Stone Retaining Wall
Stone Retaining Wall
Orren Pickell Building GroupOrren Pickell Building Group
The stone retaining wall with integral planing beds. Photo by Mike Kaskel
Photo of an expansive and beige traditional two floor detached house in Milwaukee with stone cladding, a half-hip roof and a shingle roof.
Shoreview Teardown/Custom Home
Shoreview Teardown/Custom Home
Zawadski Homes Inc.Zawadski Homes Inc.
Rear elevation of custom home built on a teardown site. Sliding glass patio doors give way to wide-plank wood decking.
Design ideas for a large and brown traditional two floor detached house in Minneapolis.
Side Exterior Roof Molding
Side Exterior Roof Molding
Lasley Brahaney Architecture + ConstructionLasley Brahaney Architecture + Construction
Extensive dentil molding and window head pieces were restored throughout the exterior.
This is an example of an expansive and white traditional detached house in New York with three floors, wood cladding, a pitched roof and a tiled roof.
Tupelo Lane #2
Tupelo Lane #2
Ryan Miller BuildersRyan Miller Builders
Inspiration for a small and gey traditional bungalow detached house in Other with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Deal Residence
Deal Residence
Crome ArchitectureCrome Architecture
This new 1,700 sf two-story single family residence for a young couple required a minimum of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, packaged to fit unobtrusively in an older low-key residential neighborhood. The house is located on a small non-conforming lot. In order to get the maximum out of this small footprint, we virtually eliminated areas such as hallways to capture as much living space. We made the house feel larger by giving the ground floor higher ceilings, provided ample natural lighting, captured elongated sight lines out of view windows, and used outdoor areas as extended living spaces. To help the building be a “good neighbor,” we set back the house on the lot to minimize visual volume, creating a friendly, social semi-public front porch. We designed with multiple step-back levels to create an intimacy in scale. The garage is on one level, the main house is on another higher level. The upper floor is set back even further to reduce visual impact. By designing a single car garage with exterior tandem parking, we minimized the amount of yard space taken up with parking. The landscaping and permeable cobblestone walkway up to the house serves double duty as part of the city required parking space. The final building solution incorporated a variety of significant cost saving features, including a floor plan that made the most of the natural topography of the site and allowed access to utilities’ crawl spaces. We avoided expensive excavation by using slab on grade at the ground floor. Retaining walls also doubled as building walls.
Breckenridge II
Breckenridge II
Inspired InteriorsInspired Interiors
This is an example of a traditional two floor detached house in Omaha with mixed cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Traditional Craftsman in the Setting of Black Mountain
Traditional Craftsman in the Setting of Black Mountain
Living Stone Design + BuildLiving Stone Design + Build
Design ideas for a medium sized and beige traditional two floor detached house in Other with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a mixed material roof.
Cooper Woods 2 Story
Cooper Woods 2 Story
Havlicek Builders Inc.Havlicek Builders Inc.
Inspiration for a blue and large classic two floor detached house in Chicago with a pitched roof, a shingle roof, wood cladding, board and batten cladding and shiplap cladding.
Classic Center Hall Colonial - New Build
Classic Center Hall Colonial - New Build
Anthony James Master Builders, LLCAnthony James Master Builders, LLC
Creating a classic center hall colonial never goes out of style. Anthony James Master Builders created this fully custom new construction home back in 2012, which boasts timeless design elements, a traditional layout, and lovely curb-appeal.
Village Exterior
Village Exterior
Homes by Pinnacle, Inc.Homes by Pinnacle, Inc.
Photo of a medium sized and gey traditional two floor detached house in Chicago with concrete fibreboard cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
A Garden Room to Enjoy All Year Round with Origin Bi-Folding Doors
A Garden Room to Enjoy All Year Round with Origin Bi-Folding Doors
Origin - Doors and WindowsOrigin - Doors and Windows
White and large classic two floor render detached house in Buckinghamshire with a pitched roof.

Traditional 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.
Pavers
Pavers
Titan PaversTitan Pavers
Medium sized and gey traditional bungalow render detached house in Los Angeles with a pitched roof and a tiled roof.
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