Curb Appeal: 10 Updated Brick Designs
A home with the ideal curb appeal will increase value for you personally and for your community. Before building or renovating your house, understanding which architectural style your home belongs to is important to give leadership for any changes you may choose to make. Superior designers choose what drives them and their customers, then gives it their personal touch, instead of simply replicating what they see elsewhere.
See what designers have done to upgrade 10 home design categories popular in North America today.
David Vandervort Architects
Cape Cod. Traditionally these are simple rectangular in plan with gable roof and sometimes dormers in the loft.
Updates: metallic roof and exposed timber trellises make outdoor spaces. The deficiency of roof overhangs on the dormers makes a clean, modern look.
DSA Architects
Colonial. There are many distinct versions of the Colonial style. Traditionally these homes are two stories high, have symmetrical elevation with the entry in the middle of the home.
Updates: In this instance, the garage has been set back to highlight the principal portion of the home. The windows on either side of the entry work against the tradition of symmetry but nevertheless relate to each other.
Dwell Design Studio
Victorian. Some features of Victorian homes include a bay window, dentils (moulding around the soffit beneath the roofing ), big square or round columns, portico (a porch on the main floor), along with complex window mullions.
Updates: This home is a streamlined version of the Victorian home with more straight lines, but retains conventional window information and the front porch element.
SDG Architecture, Inc..
Prairie Style. Traditionally the Prairie Style home has a low pitched hip roof with big overhang, horizontal lines, clerestory windows and central fireplace.
Upgrades : The form and shape of this example fits with all the Prairie Style, but uses modern materials like stucco and linear stonework. The color scheme isn’t normal for Prairie Style but remains earthy.
Joe Carrick Design – Custom Home Design
Craftsman. The conventional Craftsman home assembles from the Prairie Style with addition of exposed rafters, decorative brackets under the eaves and stone porch supports and chimney.
Upgrades : This brand new construction performed the Craftsman style home with more complicated roof lines and color mix.
Ron Brenner Architects
Tudor. Some features of the Tudor home include decorative half-timbering siding (usually brown and white ) with brick wainscoting, steeply pitched roof, prominent gable and small window panes.
Upgrades : The architect of this house kept the form of the Tudor home whilst using nontraditional colors and smooth stucco siding instead of textured stucco.
Moroso Construction
Spanish. In contrast with the Tudor style, traditional Spanish homes are asymmetrical in plan, have a low-tiled roof pitch with minimal overhang, stucco siding, half-round arched windows and doors.
Updates: The central part of this home with all the wall of long, horizontal windows is an unexpected touch to the rest of the Spanish motivated facade.
Marcus Gleysteen Architects
Ranch. This style usually has a long, low profile altitude with simple use of outside decoration and trims.
Upgrades : The contemporary take on this home played with larger image window layouts while varying the ceiling height to define each of those chambers.
Gaulhofer Windows
Cabin retreat. These are traditionally built with log and field stones with centrally situated fireplaces.
Upgrades : Engineered timber structures are being replaced with engineered laminated beams with more dramatic roof lines, but the result remains attractive.
Modern. This ranges from Midcentury to Deconstructive homes. Among the most iconic contemporary homes is your Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier with simple rectangular white exterior.
Upgrades : This example uses a common floating design with earthy materials like long horizontal wood siding to further express the linear design.
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