Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 Oct 05, 2020 11:07 am Freshening up exterior of home 3Oct 05, 2020 12:40 pm mrosen814 Would love some ideas on how to improve! There's not much wrong with your house, it's just the abundance of brick. A lot of modern houses have mixed materials for the exterior, so I would paint some brick walls, leave some exposed and clad others with some weatherboard like Hardie's Linea. I'd leave the roof and barge boards as they are to save on cost, but perhaps put some matching dark trim around the windows. For the entrance, definitely get rid of the colonial lights and put in a narrow modern portico, perhaps clad in stack stone. This photo has some of those ideas, such as a dark roof, trim around the windows, weatherboard, stone...and they have some natural shingles which look a little like exposed brick at first glance. Photo credit: James Hardie Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Freshening up exterior of home 5Nov 15, 2020 8:46 pm Re: Freshening up exterior of home 6Jul 15, 2021 4:44 am Love this ^. Looks classy Blog : http://ournewhaven.blogspot.com/ (Modified Newhaven - Homestead Homes) Status : DA - Dec 09. Slabbed - Jan 10. Handover - Aug 10 Hi, Currently building, we are on a sloping block so we have from floor level to the roof in axon cladding. Below floor level to the ground I want to put brick facings /… 0 4493 1. Roof cleaning and paint - which colour do you recommend? I often see black/ dark grey in use these days but I would prefer… 0 8327 |