update this 90’s brick house!
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Need assistance on updating our late 90s home exterior.
Comments (57)House color should probably match the siding color Romabio offers these as standard, though they can be applied in a solid color. It might be interesting to have some of your brick show through the limewash to add texture to the house. Not totally see thru but enough so that it might hide any dirt that accumulates on the surface. Maybe upgrade the garage door in the future....See MoreTrying to update the exterior of this 90s spec home. Needing color in
Comments (2)IMO remove the shutters and paint the siding a color from the stone or brick that is on the front Ideally new garage doors with some glass and maybe one shade darker than the new paint for the siding.Get rid of the plant in front of the garage pillar so that you can actully see the entry...See More90's home needs exterior update!
Comments (12)@HU-187528210 I appreciate your thoughtfulness! We are very open to the style - modern, transitional, traditional. In the end, I don't want to push something that won't work with the existing features. This home is located in Colorado but I'm from Louisiana and Georgia and love the southern influences. I tend to lean toward neutral palettes. I like a polished appearance that's not contrived (if that makes sense!)....See MoreHelp updating 90s house exterior
Comments (28)Would remove shutters Would remove the current porch, specifically including two story front porch roof and columns as well as the brick pillars and posts in order to add a deeper (8') wrap around front porch beginning beside the bay window right of the front entry door and wrapping around the left side of the house ... adding porch to the side of the house at least to the first window ... and have steps on the side of the house aimed at the back yard ... using a hip corner on the shed roof there at the left front corner of the house. Since you have a second forward facing door (unless you want competing focal points for the front of your home ) you may want to de-emphasize the door by the garage -- having it visually disappear -- by painting that door and trim the same color as the siding Alternately, you might consider either ... Have that wrap around front porch roof extend all the way to the garage, including covering the bay window and second door beneath it, and then literally create another room -- a sun room -- enclosing the bay window within that sun room or changing it for French or sliding patio doors. Add skylights in that part of the porch roof over the sun room and second door to let in light that the bay window and window in the second door would have. Then you could have the exterior sun room door(s) exiting to the side(s): to the left onto the front porch by the entry and/or to the right ... Either toward and with a door directly into the garage, Or, if you extend the room forward beyond the front exterior wall of the garage and beyond the front of the wrap around front porch, you could have a door on the right exit toward the driveway and then you could create a forward facing gable over that front sun room. If you need the upstairs porch roof to shade that window, add it to set atop the shed roof front porch and even consider altering that window if it impedes adding the wrap around porch....See Morelisedv
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