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Comments (3)Honestly, the first thing you should do is power wash the house, paint the shutters. Do not paint the brick, you have some nice dentil molding that works perfectly with the brick and the age of the home. replacing that awning means replacing the clap board in spots, you might open a can of worms. You might just peel the roof off of it and replace rotted wood. id go with black shutters. Also landscaping does wonders....See MoreExterior Design Dilemma Seeking Facade Decor / Improvement Advice
Comments (10)You are a dare devil for chopping off the deck on your split ranch, and I love it. I just had a blast scribbling on your house too! Your last inspiration pic gives you a great spring board. Focus on creating new squares and rectangles that align with and distract from your current windows. Create a shallow trellis around the first floor doors - center the left on the middle of your 2nd story triple doors, and center the right on the middle of your 2nd story double windows. Make an iron railing outside the second story doors, a very shallow balcony the same depth as the trellis and line it with some pots of greenery. Make a rectangular hedge around the patio to give more geometry for the eye to focus on away from the wall of the house. Add in ground trees on the left, with some heft. Towards the middle and right go for tall evergreens set in urns, mixed with some shorter ones. Something else needs to happen with the second story far left window and far right double windows. Not sure what....See MoreExterior design options
Comments (5)i don't know if this is helpful, but if there's any way to break the house into separate "volumes" you could use that as a way to denote your siding. We went with hardiboard but I would have quite liked board and batten for our place, i just got overruled by our builder/architect and my husband. here's an example of what I'm talking about. Only our taller inset volume is sided with shiplap cedar. Everything else is painted hardi...See MoreExterior Design Help
Comments (7)The Bahama shutters make the house look like a public advocacy brochure for how to prepare for a tropical storm. No matter what, get ride of them. If you want the outside to match the inside, paint the whole exterior white. Remove the odd shutters. Get a cedar garage door....See MoreLT Dub
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