Curb Appeal! My House Got a Facelift!
clsz
10 years ago
My husband and I had remodeled our house on the inside and felt it was time to update the outside. I took photos of Craftsman house that had features I really liked. I also spent hours on HOUZZ looking at photos and printing out the features I really liked. After about 2 years of research I took all of my ideas and pictures to Ron Brown, a respected builder in our community and said "here is what I want now make it my house". Together we made our dream house come true. In the end all we added was a porch and paint but the results is amazing! I love the way people drive by and say "we heard about your house and had to come see it. " Thanks HOUZZ for all of your inspiration.
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Comments (43)You could use some help from the LD forum on this landscaping. Since you didn't pick the hollies and aren't attached to them, I'll be blunt: for my eye there's not much you can do with paint colours or house details to distract from the very unfortunate placement of those bushes. I'm not saying they couldn't be useful if you combined them with some other landscaping (the other forum people tend to be better at foundation planting issues than I am), but on their own at that height they... are unnecessary, to put it mildly. The house has a very nice foundation, nothing to hide. Do any similar houses in your area have no foundation planting with more greenery further out in the yard instead? I might be inclined to put such a hedge perpendicular to the house if anywhere in that yard, perhaps along the side property line. Cutting them and fleshing out the beds further into the yard with more plantings in front of them might help. I think they will sprout from below if cut back, but check that on the shrubs forum perhaps, or someone on LD might know. KarinL...See MoreAdding Curb appeal- what goes w/ my house?
Comments (1)If that link doesn't work for the pictures, try this one. Here is a link that might be useful: Link for pictures of Adding curb appeal- need help...See Morecottage facelift / curb appeal
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Comments (10)Justgotabme, Hehehehe you crack me up lol. In theory I like the idea of the hazelnut brown or walnut for the windows and double doors. In reality though the door area gets a lot of shadow from the porch area so I think I need more vibrant doors. While I love wood tone garage doors, I think on this house style its best if the garage door is either the same color of the house or perhaps a tic lighter. My goal is to take the focus away from the garage by adding a somewhat vibrant color for the front doors. However, since the garage door is sooo prominent I do want it to look nice. What IâÂÂm not sure about is do I also want vibrant window frames. I think I do? Annie, I have already discovered an area the tannin hits, itâÂÂs near the two front windows. When I do the landscaping I will use low water plants there and change the sprinkler head type. That tannin is a pain. It does come off paint with an acid wash but window glass is another story. The only thing I found that works (canâÂÂt remember the name) is a product in a yellow container sold at Wallyland that is a mild compound found in the car wax and cleaning supply section. Birdgardener, I love that look! However, if itâÂÂs more expensive itâÂÂs a no go. Husband said no way to the garage door and windows to start with. I have just been pretending he didnâÂÂt and all the while proclaiming that I am not living in an ugly house lol. Luckily he is coming around. He is nearing sixty and it makes no sense for us to lug hurricane panels around and put up ourselves every season. The windows are old and need to be improved to hurricane glass. The garage door I picked is Miami Dade approved and has expensive hurricane glass. Sheesh, the things I gotta do. I sent this picture of a garage door after a storm to my husband at work the door is like the one on the house now....See More
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