Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement Re: Advice on Facade Beautification 4May 01, 2013 5:50 pm The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Advice on Facade Beautification 5May 01, 2013 10:51 pm Tallish pines and a garden bed are in the pipeline. I want to break the dull facade look. Painting under window probably is a first step. I want to put some feature on the facade. Was thinking painting dark brown or so? Adding something with timber to break the U shape. Re: Advice on Facade Beautification 6May 02, 2013 3:43 am I think the front window-wall needs softening with a lighter colour, mainly because I think grey with the dark roof and dark bricks overall looks too drab and somewhat commercial. Personally I think the permapine 'boxes' are far too uniform, when 2 or 3 levels terraced with a random line of stone walling with carefully selected planting would have softened the area, but I guess it all comes down to personal taste Arfur Re: Advice on Facade Beautification 7May 02, 2013 9:58 am Uncle Arfur Personally I think the permapine 'boxes' are far too uniform, when 2 or 3 levels terraced with a random line of stone walling with carefully selected planting would have softened the area, but I guess it all comes down to personal taste What are the permapine boxes you mention? the retaining wall? Re: Advice on Facade Beautification 8Aug 08, 2013 11:34 am I actually quite like your façade and what you`ve done so far to the garden. But I do think two thin pencil pines either side of the front window would look good if there is a garden bed space there. I also think if you stained the front retaining wall a dark wood stain it would look good and look more expensively done. And if you built a set of steps from the front porch to the nature strip in decking I think that would look great. To soften the retaining wall you could plant 'tanika lomandra longfolia' at the edges of it and it would grow to flow over the edges and soften it. I have tanika`s all around my front yard and they tolerate frost and full sun and are low maintenance but look great (they`re a smallish grass plant). And in the middle of the retaining wall garden bed you could plant a pink cordyline http://www.bunnings.com.au/products_pro ... 13387.aspx , or a little gem magnolia tree .Lots of display homes have them coupled with tanika lomandras these days and I also have one with my tanikas and they`re a nice contrast. I hope I`ve given you some ideas of what you can do to change your façade : ) Re: Advice on Facade Beautification 9Aug 20, 2013 8:30 am Id love to see what you choose to do with the facade! I would probably go with a darker colour on the front U-shape because I think painting it a lighter colour will only make it POP further. eg. black pool fence in your yard you tend to look straight past, white pool fence in your yard, you cant help but notice it. I think the same principle applies here. Plant, plant plant! It will soften no end. Stain the timber planter boxes a dark rich colour and some light sandstone pavers on the way up! Had to have my two cents! : ) best of luck! Looking to tile the facade pillars rather than rendering. Builder is quoting 2500$ laying cost for upto 10msq. The 2 pillars come to be 16msq. So laying costs are 5000$… 0 8920 Agree, Riviera from Clarendon looks beautiful. I've seen one with a light-colored bricks and just a bit of molding (in my neighborhood). It's definitely overpriced. I'm… 10 7069 Hi, guys! If you've built with Wisdom Homes, would you mind sharing images of your front facades once they're all rendered? I'm considering signing up with them for a wide… 0 15350 |