Need help with curb appeal!
kppa
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Comments (15)Would not paint brick. If you want it darker, then you might consider staining it, keeping the grout visible (or painting it gray grout color after staining is complete). Perhaps you could add your screened porch on the back -- perhaps even wrapping it around the side of the house for more area. You could move all those plants, etc., to the side yard and then build at least an open front porch centered between the two downstairs windows (preferably with a concrete floor and at least 6' - 8' deep), keeping the barely sloped shed roof you add on each side of the existing roof beneath that smaller upstairs window. Do use the same roofing material all the way across -- perhaps metal roofing. When get your porch in place, then you could address the sidewalk and landscaping....See MoreNeed help with curb appeal and deciding on roof shingles
Comments (3)Roof color depends on what else you change. What do you want to change? Are you painting? Keeping the brown? Hard to suggest... Ideally, budget not being considered I’d probably go dark on the roof. Gray or black. If you paint the house great. If not I think I’d do black trim. Black doors....See MoreNeed help with curb appeal and trim color
Comments (2)Landscaping update for sure - biggest bang for bucks! Remove the 2 arborvitaes - too tall. Expand the planting area in front of porch / patio out into the lawn & around to left side of house. Include evergreens & flowering shrubs appropriate for your area. Plant low evergreens to hide gas meter - looks like there’s a planting bed there. Stash trash bin around side of driveway & out of sight. Add lights that complement front door lights to both sides of garage door. Find a place to add address numbers - not by the man door to left of garage - since that’s not your main entry don’t emphasize it. Paint that door & trim same color as body of house to help de-emphasize it. For trim - not sure but needs darker & warmer tone than white to accent your rock face feature. Maybe a creamy tone with brown undertones? Stay away from yellow tones. I would also paint the garage door same as trim or the house body color if door has trim around it....See MoreNeed help with curb appeal!!
Comments (8)Are the big gables over the garage and on the right) rooms, or just design floof? If floof, I would look into putting a faux window, or decorative cut out, into at least the garage one to reduce the visual blank space. But that is probably the most minor of my suggestions. I would replace the lights flanking the garage door with something less "colonial". Something a bit larger, too. When you remove the shutters, think about adding a bit more trim around the windows before you paint. The biggest bang for your buck would be to add a lot more plants: expand the current planting bed to extend from driveway, along walk, and curve out to corner of house. Also put some small, low growing perennial at the base of your lamppost....See Morekppa
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