Help photoshopping an exterior elevation please.
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5 years ago
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I have a favor to ask of someone talented with photoshop. Can you please take the photo provided below and show me what the home would look like with no shutters or shutters of the appropriate size? Also, can you please take the 'natural clay' color board and batten and bring it down and around the curved-arch opening? I'm just curious if this would be an improvement or terrible. Thank you.
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xiangirl zone 4/5 Nebraska
5 years ago1. Do you like everything outlined in white? That's a bold outline and screams "I'm a 3-hole garage" with a house rather than "I'm a house with a 3-car garage."
2. I think you need landscaping: trees, bushes, flowers, rock garden, something eye-catching in front of the house..
3. Your shutters are the right size for the window.
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PROMark Bischak, Architect
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Mark Bischak, Architect
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Matt McLagan
5 years agoI thought, man I feel like I've seen a similar house around here.
So I went for a drive and snapped some photos of similar houses in a new neighborhood here and well, one of them is OP's house.
So this is awkward, and now I feel like a creep. So I wont share those photos.
If anyone is curious however, this is an alternative elevation offered by the builder:
And here's the floor plan.
It comes in around $430,000.User
5 years ago
It shows how lowering a roof slope and oddly locating siding changes can change the appearance of a house. The thing over the entry door has no name.
emmarene9
5 years ago
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