Exterior Makeover Help
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House Exterior Paint Makeover Help
Comments (3)Some idea to go with soft white/off-white. Your brick repeats your roof color, so you do not have to paint it. It looks good....See MoreExterior update makeover HELP
Comments (30)I just completed a remodel on the exterior of my house which, before the remodel, looked a lot like yours (including the sloping down one side). Like yours, my house also had a long and narrow front porch with lots of columns. I started by going through Houzz’s extensive collection of front porches and pulling out the ones that had elements that I liked. I found that I liked front porches with a larger front door (with side lights), a gabled porch cover that extended slightly from the house, and chunkier bottoms on the columns (especially ones clad with stone or brick). I also pulled the entire porch out by about six feet and adding stone flower boxes all the way down the entire front of the house. This helped with the weird fall away on the one side. Like you I added shutters, but unlike you, I added them to both the upper and lower windows on my house. I also changed out the very dated and energy inefficient windows on the first floor. As you can see from the before and (mostly) after pics below. Unfortunately, the new windows on the house were added after these pictures so they are not reflected here (I’m actually waiting for spring before I take a new set of pictures), but I hope you get the idea of what was accomplished. Btw, I own an architectural sheet metal company which drove the decisions for the columns and metalwork on the porch. I also added some lighting so the porch also looks amazing at night....See MoreTudor Exterior Paint Makeover Help Please
Comments (18)@tozmo1 agree with you on the all solid color, which is why we were thinking siding. We've seen tudor half timbers painted same color as the stucco but haven't seen it executed well. We have the late 80's textured stucco, and everywhere we've read says it will be impossible to remove the timbers and patch without being able to spot it as a patch a mile away. At that point we're looking at removing all of the stucco and simply starting over. We're hoping to be able to save on costs by being able to go right over the existing stucco facade....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 Moreiva_26
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