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World-Inspired House Exterior with a Shingle Roof Ideas and Designs

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Captiva House
Captiva House
K2 Design Group, Inc.K2 Design Group, Inc.
The Aurora Gold – Best in Show Grand Auroras were awarded for this home’s beautiful landscape….
Inspiration for a large and beige world-inspired two floor detached house in Miami with stone cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Plantation Estates
Plantation Estates
KAHE ConstructionKAHE Construction
Expansive and gey world-inspired bungalow concrete detached house in Hawaii with a shingle roof.
Private Residence - Palm Beach, Florida
Private Residence - Palm Beach, Florida
J.P. DiMisa Luxury Homes, Inc.J.P. DiMisa Luxury Homes, Inc.
Catalina Lackner
Large and white world-inspired two floor render detached house in Miami with a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Bartlett Residence
Bartlett Residence
Sarco Architects Costa Rica - CaribbeanSarco Architects Costa Rica - Caribbean
Bartlett Residence has plenty of outdoor spaces where the user can enjoy the breeze and the tropical climate while having a nice shade. There are different ambiences where the architecture allows the enjoyment of the surrounding Costa Rica's tropical nature //Gerardo Marín E.
Tropical Exterior
Tropical Exterior
Photo of a white world-inspired bungalow detached house in Hawaii with a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Kiwah Island Residence 3
Kiwah Island Residence 3
Spivey Architects, Inc.Spivey Architects, Inc.
I. Wilson Baker Photography
This is an example of a large and brown world-inspired detached house in Charleston with three floors, wood cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Plantation Style Cottage
Plantation Style Cottage
Pu'uwai Design & ConstructionPu'uwai Design & Construction
Adorable plantation cottage townhouse with traditional plantation details seen in the x style porch railing and exposed tails, as well as the board and batten siding.
Jupiter Island Residence
Jupiter Island Residence
Angela Reynolds DesignsAngela Reynolds Designs
Expansive and beige world-inspired two floor concrete and front detached house in Miami with a hip roof, a shingle roof and a grey roof.
New Prairie Style Residence - River Forest, IL
New Prairie Style Residence - River Forest, IL
WEST STUDIO Architects & Construction ServicesWEST STUDIO Architects & Construction Services
Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Modern Prairie Home
Inspiration for a medium sized and brown world-inspired brick detached house in Chicago with a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Mainsail Model - Exterior
Mainsail Model - Exterior
Emcy Interior DesignEmcy Interior Design
Photo of a large and white world-inspired two floor render detached house in Tampa with a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Spice Bay Custom Home
Spice Bay Custom Home
Nautilus HomesNautilus Homes
A custom designed and constructed 3,800 sf AC home designed to maximize outdoor livability, with architectural cues from the British west indies style architecture.
Daniel Island
Daniel Island
ArchitraveArchitrave
Inspiration for a large and brown world-inspired detached house in Charleston with wood cladding, a hip roof, three floors and a shingle roof.
Bali House
Bali House
Rick Ryniak ArchitectsRick Ryniak Architects
Don Bloom Tropical Light Photography
This is an example of a large and white world-inspired two floor detached house in Hawaii with mixed cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Kukuiula Home
Kukuiula Home
Pu'uwai Design & ConstructionPu'uwai Design & Construction
This beautiful tropical home is a mix of traditional plantation and cosmo pacific design. The plantation detailing can be seen in the board and batten walls, shake roofing, and black double hung windows. While the custom tropical light fixtures, stone carved entry panels, wood doors and tiki torches speak to the tropical elegance of the place. At the entrance you are greeted by a floral motif hand carved in Indonesia on white stone panels and a clear glass water wall falling into a splash bowl. The golden yellow of the exterior and the warm reds of the natural hardwood trim is a taste of the design for the whole home which is a mix of warm cozy spaces and tropical luxury.
Asian Exterior
Asian Exterior
Inspiration for a black world-inspired two floor detached house in Perth with mixed cladding, a hip roof and a shingle roof.
FRONT OF THE HOUSE
FRONT OF THE HOUSE
Severine Secret Interiors - Go2 Design StudioSeverine Secret Interiors - Go2 Design Studio
Inspiration for a large and gey world-inspired bungalow front detached house in San Francisco with mixed cladding, a shingle roof and a black roof.
CJM
CJM
CJM CommunitiesCJM Communities
This is an example of a large and white world-inspired two floor render detached house in Miami with a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Captiva House
Captiva House
K2 Design Group, Inc.K2 Design Group, Inc.
Our dreams of the tropics are framed in palms. Surrounding the exterior of this stunning home are wood-clad overhangs, complemented with copper gutters, providing shelter for rainy days in Paradise. For a welcome evening glow, wall sconces cast light on iris, agapanthus and crinum lily.
Tropical Meets Modern
Tropical Meets Modern
VOLT® LightingVOLT® Lighting
VOLT® Lighting
Expansive and beige world-inspired render detached house in Tampa with three floors, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
My Work
My Work
Terra Landscaping Inc.Terra Landscaping Inc.
Medium sized and white world-inspired bungalow render detached house in Miami with a hip roof and a shingle roof.

World-Inspired House Exterior with a Shingle Roof 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 world-inspired 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 world-inspired 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 world-inspired 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 world-inspired 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 world-inspired exterior architecture choices for your house designs.
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