Exterior Makeover Help Needed
nlennick
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Beach Cottage Needs Exterior Paint Makeover: Help!
Comments (0)At a loss here, folks! I'm terrible at visualizing and gave up on trying to sketch in colors myself on the Ben Moore or Sherm Williams websites. Would loooovveeee if someone out there could give it a whirl! Kindly seeking your suggestions for body and trim colors for this waterfront beach house in a New England fishing community. Neighboring home is brown cottage (see pic) and would love to somehow tie two homes together, but without making the main house brown. Most homes are weathered shingles..grey, dull. Would like to stay with light, warm colors...no yellows or blues. Thanks in advance....See MoreTotal exterior makeover!! Help needed!!
Comments (8)I like your ideas. I think a medium charcoal gray or weathered wood roof would look nice. I wonder if you could set the addition back about two feet with a square bump out in the middle. The roof line could be lower than the main house. Inside, it could be a vaulted ceiling. Clad it in clapboards or flat panels with trim; see the section next to the garage below. This is an example of the setback and the center bay, although not the same style as you house. Of course no Gambrel roof....See MoreExterior makeover help please!!
Comments (13)One thing I like about the planter is it gives a long, level baseline for plants, rather than your slope. I'd try to keep it, or reconstruct something similar. It doesn't look like you have enough width there to do shrubs, so plant it with soft/easy perennials like the decorative switchgrasses (the shorter ones, not the taller varieties), rudbeckia, shorter goldenrods, etc. Cut them all to the ground in spring just before growing season -- simple. The shrubs along the side of the drive look like they might be nice to keep, just need a little weeding. I don't know about adding a fence behind them. If you keep most of them a fence would not be visually necessary. I like a nice generous landing. Could yours be extended out along the house, maybe to just beyond the first set of windows? Looks like you can't go out into the drive much, or you'd interfere with cars using the garage. For paint colors, I like a nice bright front door. Just about any color would work for yours. I also like it when the garage doors and side doors are painted to blend in rather than stand out. So I'd choose a medium tan-ish color. Again, let the front door be the thing that draws the eye, not the garage doors or side door....See Moreexterior makeover help
Comments (5)The concrete planter around your tree is an interesting (and assumedly original?) feature, but nothing else in your landscape “talks” to it so to speak. With midcentury homes I think ‘poured-in-place’ concrete always looks good— it’s not that different from your paver idea, just at a more appropriate scale & function. Here’s a really bad rendering done with a fat thumb on my phone, but the gist would be to have larger rectangular concrete sections (could be gravel or grass in between) that abut your concrete planter, and having those surrounded by some nice native grasses with a another planted section in the middle, and then echo those same plants in your raised concrete planter around tree). Neat house!...See Moreptreckel
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