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Traditional House Exterior with Wood Cladding Ideas and Designs

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BOARD & BATTEN MAIBEC SIDING - PORT PERRY, ON
BOARD & BATTEN MAIBEC SIDING - PORT PERRY, ON
Munro ContractingMunro Contracting
Traditional and rustic Maibec siding will lend organic beauty and warmth to any architectural style! This custom home has Board & Batten Maibec siding in Ocean Spray! Soffit, fascia and eavestrough in Granite really finishes off this outstanding home!
Highett
Highett
Hargreaves Design GroupHargreaves Design Group
Large traditional two floor house exterior in Melbourne with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a metal roof.
ModFarmDreamHome
ModFarmDreamHome
Amy Storm & CompanyAmy Storm & Company
Large and gey classic two floor detached house in Chicago with wood cladding and a mixed material roof.
Firepit Built into Stone Boulder
Firepit Built into Stone Boulder
Orren Pickell Building GroupOrren Pickell Building Group
Firepit built into large boulder on front flagstone patio
Photo of a large and brown classic two floor detached house in Chicago with wood cladding, a half-hip roof and a shingle roof.
Garage Exterior Transformation - Halstead's Bay on Lake Minnetonka
Garage Exterior Transformation - Halstead's Bay on Lake Minnetonka
Thompson ConstructionThompson Construction
Spacecrafting / Architectural Photography
Design ideas for a medium sized and gey traditional two floor detached house in Minneapolis with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a metal roof.
Eau Claire South - Otter Creek Parade Home 2018
Eau Claire South - Otter Creek Parade Home 2018
Signature Homes of the Chippewa Valley LLC.Signature Homes of the Chippewa Valley LLC.
Inspiration for a medium sized and blue classic split-level detached house in Other with wood cladding and a shingle roof.
Colby's Run
Colby's Run
Archer & Buchanan Architecture, Ltd.Archer & Buchanan Architecture, Ltd.
Photo: Don Pearse Photographers
Classic two floor detached house in Philadelphia with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Anaheim White House Rebuild
Anaheim White House Rebuild
La Placa DevelopmentLa Placa Development
Inspiration for a medium sized and white classic two floor detached house in Orange County with wood cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
2528 Pinckney
2528 Pinckney
Williams Farrow BuildersWilliams Farrow Builders
Photo of a large and blue traditional two floor house exterior in Charlotte with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Cooper Woods 2 Story
Cooper Woods 2 Story
Havlicek Builders Inc.Havlicek Builders Inc.
This is an example of a large and blue classic two floor detached house in Chicago with a pitched roof, a shingle roof and wood cladding.
Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant
Averra Developments Inc.Averra Developments Inc.
This is an example of a medium sized and green traditional two floor detached house in Vancouver with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Alexandria: Revamped Row Home with Relocated Stairwell, New Porches
Alexandria: Revamped Row Home with Relocated Stairwell, New Porches
Harry Braswell Inc.Harry Braswell Inc.
The homeowners' favorite view of the home is from their rear garden at dusk. The porches not only opened up the interior of their home to more light and the outdoors, but also created a peaceful sanctuary, an oasis of calm in a busy town. Photographer Greg Hadley
Monterey Entry
Monterey Entry
Leneeva HomesLeneeva Homes
Tracii Wearne
Design ideas for a large and gey classic two floor detached house in Melbourne with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a tiled roof.
Indianapolis Exterior Paint Project
Indianapolis Exterior Paint Project
ONiT PaintingONiT Painting
This is an example of a medium sized and blue classic bungalow detached house in Indianapolis with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Exterior addition and deck
Exterior addition and deck
Paul Orentlicher, ArchitectPaul Orentlicher, Architect
New one story addition and new deck. Expanded kitchen/eating and family room.
This is an example of a medium sized and gey traditional two floor detached house in New York with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Oakton Estate
Oakton Estate
SURROUNDS Landscape Architecture + ConstructionSURROUNDS Landscape Architecture + Construction
Photography: Morgan Howarth. Landscape Architect: Howard Cohen, Surrounds Inc.
Design ideas for a large and gey classic two floor detached house in DC Metro with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Arts & Crafts Style Home
Arts & Crafts Style Home
Jordan Rosenberg ArchitectJordan Rosenberg Architect
Arts and Crafts style home, also in the same genre as shingle style or hampton style home. The attention to detail is of the utmost....custom moulding details even on elements as small as the cupola all carefully planned and overseen during construction by Jordan Rosenberg Architect
Belmont (double) side addition
Belmont (double) side addition
dEmios ArchitectsdEmios Architects
The owners of this dutch colonial needed a larger, updated kitchen with eating area with a master bedroom above and an additional bedroom/office above an existing side porch. We wanted to maintain the lines of the original house while designing an addition built within the same vocabulary as the 1920s original.
Turnbull Street
Turnbull Street
Ferris Building Pty LtdFerris Building Pty Ltd
This is an example of a medium sized and beige classic bungalow detached house in Newcastle - Maitland with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a metal roof.
Медное озеро
Медное озеро
Фролова СветланаФролова Светлана
Green traditional bungalow detached house in Saint Petersburg with wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Traditional House Exterior with Wood Cladding 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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