House numbers for curb appeal - ideas, please!
We're near the tail end of an exterior upgrade project at our 1950 Florida ranch home that's included a new front door, complete paint job, porch, walkway, and driveway pavers, and landscaping. Now for the finishing touch: house numbers. They're already on the mailbox, so I'm not looking for advice on function so much as suggestions for style, size, color, and placement to make an intentional design statement and add to curb appeal. I've also included a photo of the aged bronze door hardware, since it's hard to see in the house shot. Our house number is 255. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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Comments (11)I like the idea of brightly colored shutters and a matching door. Fortunately, early fall is a GOOD time to plant many things, even shrubs. And bulbs for spring color, of course. Plant about $50 in bulbs - go for a mix of blooming times in daffodils or tulips. Plan your shrubs so you have varieties that will stay fairly small, in scale with the house, and some evergreen and some flowering deciduous ones. Moving a 6' evergreen shrub is not an easy task if you want it to survive. Don't waste the effort, buy small new ones. Consider a small flowering tree (dogwood, crepe myrtle, magnolia) at the far right along the property line and visible from the right-most window. Plant next spring. Perennials? Whatever grows and spreads in your area with little care. Hosta? Iris? Peonies? Check the neighborhood ans see what's thriving. ============ Long term ... expand the front porch area toward the street, add the roof over it and railings....See MoreAny ideas on increasing the curb appeal of our pictured house?
Comments (6)Very cool house! Your view of course and location is worth the effort of painting. To enhance the architecture of the house, paint the house and trim the same color. I would suggest a fairly dark slate blue. Then the shape of the house would be unified and nestled into the landscape as it was originally designed to do. The contrast with your reddish roof would be nice. A nice extra large entrance "waterhog" mat at your front door in a dark blue to cover the concrete in front of the door would be useful. Your front door could go brick red, or navy blue. You could have one bench or chair to the right of your door. Keep your landscaping simple around the front door. Maybe a water feature or bird bath with day lilies around it or some other easy perennial. Line your walkway with low growing plants and keep them uniform. You could scatter some pots around the back with flowers of your choice....See Moreplease help me add some curb appeal to our home!! Any ideas welcome
Comments (0)Need ideas for curb appeal! Brick? Flower boxes? Shrubs? Door color? Thank you!!...See Moreside-of-house front door, need curb appeal ideas
Comments (10)Your visitors need to be guided to your front door. Take out the overgrown shrubs and, as has been suggested here, re think the sidewalk to your front door. This can be done by widening both the bed in front of your house AND installing a wide sidewalk (modern paving stones) to the right side of your home. With planting beds on the street side of the pathway. You might consider low level lighting, too, to guide your guests to the right door. As has been suggested…placing your house numbers in a more obvious place, making them larger, and lighting them will help people see where they should enter. Have you ever considered creating a gate across the front of your carport? One that could be opened (or even have a small gate for family access) so that people see that area as “private?” Just a thought. Note: Installing a sidewalk to the street in front of your home, as some have suggested, only works IF your neighborhood has sidewalks. Many neighborhoods do not have them....See More
PROBeverlyFLADeziner
17 days agoUsually, the numbers are near the door, but your porch columns look like they would impede seeing the house numbers. Vertical house numbers are hard for some people to read.
You could consider an address plaque that is fastened to the porch column.
I might add shutters to the window on the right.
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PROSabrina Alfin Interiors
17 days agoI'd add them just under the small window to the right of the door. And I think they'd look better horizontally installed, not vertically.
Something like these in a black finish would be easy to read:
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16 days ago@Flo Mangan: Thanks for your compliment on our project and so glad you like the exterior color because we really struggled over it. Usually we're not so bold in our color choices, so this was really stepping out! Here's a "before" pic with the old color and front door and before the new porch, walkway and landscaping.
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BeverlyFLADeziner
16 days agoYou've been given some great suggestions. The vertical ones on the column are the worst.
Lots of people have dyslexia. Do you want to make reading the numbers harder for people??
You can get these at Home Depot
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13 days agoThanks, everyone, for all the thoughtful comments and suggestions. For those who asked about the mailbox, below is a photo. The numbers are on both sides, so vehicles coming from both directions can see them. Based on a couple of the most recent comments, I made mock-ups (below) of dark numbers on a white plaque and tried them out horizontally under the small window and vertically on the right side of the house. What do you think?
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