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White Midcentury House Exterior Ideas and Designs

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Mid-Century Avalon
Mid-Century Avalon
Inspired InteriorsInspired Interiors
Amoura Productions
This is an example of a large and white midcentury bungalow detached house in Omaha with a flat roof and a shingle roof.
Deloache Ave Residence
Deloache Ave Residence
MohmentMohment
View of front entry.
Medium sized and white retro two floor render detached house in Dallas with a flat roof.
New Home in Cleveland DC
New Home in Cleveland DC
AXIS ARCHITECTSAXIS ARCHITECTS
Design ideas for a large and white midcentury detached house in DC Metro with three floors, a pitched roof, a metal roof and a black roof.
Sabine's Interior Design, Inc.
Sabine's Interior Design, Inc.
Sabine's Interior Design, Inc.Sabine's Interior Design, Inc.
Photo of a white midcentury bungalow house exterior in Los Angeles with wood cladding and a flat roof.
Bull Creek Modern Residence
Bull Creek Modern Residence
Studio SteinbomerStudio Steinbomer
Design ideas for a medium sized and white retro two floor brick detached house in Austin with a pitched roof, a metal roof and a grey roof.
Garrett Park Residence
Garrett Park Residence
WentworthWentworth
Geoff Hodgdon
This is an example of a medium sized and white midcentury bungalow detached house in DC Metro with mixed cladding and a shingle roof.
Santa Monica Frederick Monhoff Renovation
Santa Monica Frederick Monhoff Renovation
SweisKlossSweisKloss
Chang Kyun Kim
Design ideas for a white retro bungalow brick house exterior in Los Angeles.
La Jolla Midcentury
La Jolla Midcentury
BYoung DesignBYoung Design
Exterior View of remodel with native, drought-tolerant planting
Photo of a white midcentury bungalow render detached house in San Diego with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Exterior Refresh Inspiration Rendering
Exterior Refresh Inspiration Rendering
CURATECURATE
Elevating this rancher was so much fun! When the bones are good, but the finishes aren't...time to refresh!
Photo of a medium sized and white retro bungalow detached house in San Francisco with wood cladding, a black roof and shiplap cladding.
Lelean St Coastal Architecture
Lelean St Coastal Architecture
DE atelier ArchitectsDE atelier Architects
DE atelier Architects
Medium sized and white retro two floor house exterior in Melbourne.
Strass Residence
Strass Residence
DK StudioDK Studio
Our team of Austin architects transformed a 1950s home into a mid-century modern retreat for this renovation and addition project. The retired couple who owns the house came to us seeking a design that would bring in natural light and accommodate their many hobbies while offering a modern and streamlined design. The original structure featured an awkward floor plan of choppy spaces divided by various step-downs and a central living area that felt dark and closed off from the outside. Our main goal was to bring in natural light and take advantage of the property’s fantastic backyard views of a peaceful creek. We raised interior floors to the same level, eliminating sunken rooms and step-downs to allow for a more open, free-flowing floor plan. To increase natural light, we changed the traditional hip roofline to a more modern single slope with clerestory windows that take advantage of treetop views. Additionally, we added all new windows strategically positioned to frame views of the backyard. A new open-concept kitchen and living area occupy the central home where previously underutilized rooms once sat. The kitchen features an oversized island, quartzite counters, and upper glass cabinets that mirror the clerestory windows of the room. Large sliding doors spill out to a new covered and raised deck that overlooks Shoal Creek and new backyard amenities, like a bocce ball court and paved walkways. Finally, we finished the home's exterior with durable and low-maintenance cement plank siding and a metal roof in a palette of neutral grays and whites. A bright red door creates a warm welcome to this newly renovated Austin home.
The VB Project
The VB Project
Galarde Interiors LLCGalarde Interiors LLC
Photo by Melody Songer
Design ideas for a medium sized and white midcentury bungalow brick detached house in Charlotte with a shingle roof.
White House with Textured Black Standing Seam
White House with Textured Black Standing Seam
AB MartinAB Martin
This midcentury bi-level house features white square columns reaching all the way to the second story, and a new ABSeam Textured Black metal roof. The Standing Seam metal roof is unique in that it makes use of the clip relief along each side of the 1.5" high rib. Learn more at https://abmartin.net/metal-panels/abseam
Scordmagalia
Scordmagalia
Jeannette ArchitectsJeannette Architects
Jeff Jeannette, Jeannette Architects
Medium sized and white midcentury bungalow house exterior in Los Angeles with wood cladding.
Woodinville Pivot Site Design
Woodinville Pivot Site Design
Board & VellumBoard & Vellum
Photography by Meghan Montgomery
This is an example of a large and white midcentury detached house in Seattle with wood cladding, a pitched roof, a shingle roof, a black roof and board and batten cladding.
Reinterpreted Mid-Century
Reinterpreted Mid-Century
Marc-Michaels Interior DesignMarc-Michaels Interior Design
©Edward Butera / ibi designs / Boca Raton, Florida
Design ideas for an expansive and white retro bungalow house exterior in Miami.
Holly Vista Residence
Holly Vista Residence
TOLO ArchitectureTOLO Architecture
The owners of this mid-century post-and-beam Pasadena house overlooking the Arroyo Seco asked us to add onto and adapt the house to meet their current needs. The renovation infused the home with a contemporary aesthetic while retaining the home's original character (reminiscent of Cliff May's Ranch-style houses) the project includes and extension to the master bedroom, a new outdoor living room, and updates to the pool, pool house, landscape, and hardscape. we were also asked to design and fabricate custom cabinetry for the home office and an aluminum and glass table for the dining room. PROJECT TEAM: Peter Tolkin,Angela Uriu, Dan Parks, Anthony Denzer, Leigh Jerrard,Ted Rubenstein, Christopher Girt ENGINEERS: Charles Tan + Associates (Structural) LANDSCAPE: Elysian Landscapes GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Western Installations PHOTOGRAPHER:Peter Tolkin
Scordmagalia
Scordmagalia
Jeannette ArchitectsJeannette Architects
Jeff Jeannette, Jeannette Architects
Photo of a medium sized and white midcentury bungalow house exterior in Los Angeles with wood cladding.
Hollywood Hills
Hollywood Hills
levitt architectslevitt architects
Photo of a white retro bungalow house exterior in Los Angeles with a flat roof.
Driftwood
Driftwood
Mãkena InteriorsMãkena Interiors
original Midcentury estate in Deepwell Palm Springs, CA
Design ideas for a white midcentury bungalow house exterior in Other with a flat roof.

White Midcentury 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 midcentury 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 midcentury 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 midcentury 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 midcentury 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 midcentury exterior architecture choices for your house designs.
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