Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Show us your facade... 74Mar 12, 2019 11:59 am i quite like your facade. I just feel that there are too many elements in terms of colors and laterials there. You could have a grey brick around the garage to match with the greys in the facade instead of the beige thats there now. You could also match your stain of front door with your garage door color and the entrace floor. The windows though looks absolutely stunning might be a privacy issue. SO you could get them tinted whihc everyone has suggested. Another idea is to match your cladding on upper floor with your garage door and then the brick around the garage could match the render color on ground floor. Hope it helps. Re: Show us your facade... 75Mar 19, 2019 6:01 pm Taniaimran Melbournevic Hi all, I'm confused which one will look a lot better. Your inputs and suggestions are really helpful. For the brick wall, we are using Blackwood Homestead of Austral Bricks, or something similar. We like dark brown bricks. The image 1 below is the standard facade. The only change we've made so far is we've extended the height of the brick posts to full height of balcony (shown on image 2). Option 1 - Leave the facade style as is, as shown on image 1 with extended posts to balcony. Cladding colour is light grey including the cladding to balcony (or maybe darker in the balcony?) Option 2 - Change the cladding of the upper floor to bricks then completely render the entire facade of the upper floor. Colour is light grey. Cladding to balcony remains the same, with colour being grey. Option 3 - Change the entire facade of first floor to cladding with light grey as the colour. With the posts to balcony, I'm thinking whether to change to Zinc metallix bricks (shown on Image 3) or render this part in darker grey? Thank you all! Image 1 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Image 2 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Image 3 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi I generally quite like your facade and i am with you on increasing the height of the pillars/posts in front all the way up. we are just finishing building and i felt as many houses that i saw for their facades, i realised that best would be to have 3 elements in your facade otherwise it may look cluttered. I like the option 2 of rendering the upper floor after brick. That way you will demarcate the upper floor also from the lower brick floor. Also i feel that instead of having your posts different from the cladding on top of them, why dont you have your pillars/posts cladded also. No bricks there...just the caldding same as what is on top. That way it will have the continuity in the posts and balcony cladding above. you could also get your garage wall rendered also matching with the top floor. Hope it helps Thanks. That's really helpful and great idea too with rendering the garage. Re: Show us your facade... 76Apr 08, 2019 11:56 pm I think there may be too many elements. Things seem to be too crowded. I'd aim to stick to 3 elements. Re: Show us your facade... 77Apr 09, 2019 9:26 am Melbournevic Taniaimran Melbournevic Hi all, I'm confused which one will look a lot better. Your inputs and suggestions are really helpful. For the brick wall, we are using Blackwood Homestead of Austral Bricks, or something similar. We like dark brown bricks. The image 1 below is the standard facade. The only change we've made so far is we've extended the height of the brick posts to full height of balcony (shown on image 2). Option 1 - Leave the facade style as is, as shown on image 1 with extended posts to balcony. Cladding colour is light grey including the cladding to balcony (or maybe darker in the balcony?) Option 2 - Change the cladding of the upper floor to bricks then completely render the entire facade of the upper floor. Colour is light grey. Cladding to balcony remains the same, with colour being grey. Option 3 - Change the entire facade of first floor to cladding with light grey as the colour. With the posts to balcony, I'm thinking whether to change to Zinc metallix bricks (shown on Image 3) or render this part in darker grey? Thank you all! Image 1 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Image 2 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Image 3 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi I generally quite like your facade and i am with you on increasing the height of the pillars/posts in front all the way up. we are just finishing building and i felt as many houses that i saw for their facades, i realised that best would be to have 3 elements in your facade otherwise it may look cluttered. I like the option 2 of rendering the upper floor after brick. That way you will demarcate the upper floor also from the lower brick floor. Also i feel that instead of having your posts different from the cladding on top of them, why dont you have your pillars/posts cladded also. No bricks there...just the caldding same as what is on top. That way it will have the continuity in the posts and balcony cladding above. you could also get your garage wall rendered also matching with the top floor. Hope it helps Thanks. That's really helpful and great idea too with rendering the garage. I am glad that i could be of some help. Did you finally decide on th facade? If so please show us the final picture. Re: Show us your facade... 78Apr 10, 2019 2:03 pm Taniaimran I am glad that i could be of some help. Did you finally decide on th facade? If so please show us the final picture. No picture at the moment 😕 but will definitely post once I have received the final plan. Our CSR has advised that we can discuss about the facade upgrade on our Studio Selections appointment. It would be nice if they can offer 3D app that I can visually see but unfortunately it isn't available. Re: Show us your facade... 79Apr 10, 2019 5:44 pm Hi , I'm currently going through this now within the Whitehorse council which has a similar set of restrictions. We're having to make compromises with our floor plan due… 3 30668 Dear Members I have to decide the Facade column size. My custom builder standard is 350mm with rendering, but i asked for 470mm plus stone or tiles and yet to get… 0 7493 traditional gable roof facade - Have you did the dark and light gray color combination in facade with gray stone in facade… 0 4203 |