Please help us with our facelift! Would love to modernize!
We recently remodeled the interior of our home and love the clean somewhat modern look that we accomplished. Now it's time to make the outside look as good as the inside! We have a Craftsman style home, but would like to give it a hint of modern flare. We're looking for ideas for a facelift (landscaping to be done later). Not sure if we should use siding, stone, or stucco finishes....but we know that we like modern, organic, and clean lines. We're also considering ipe wood paneling (seen in a lot of modern exteriors), but don't know how we'd incorporate something like that. How can we modernize our house while balancing the Craftsman style of our home... and still 'blend' into our suburban neighborhood?? Thanks in advance....so excited to hear from everyone.
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I then might paint the brick flanking the garage your siding color so it blends in better. It looks like that's the only spot where the brick is used.
Hire an electrician to hang two good sized wall lights on the sides of the garage. Update your porch light in a similar style.
Paint the house a light gray and trim a black or dark charcoal gray for a more contemporary look.
Hire a landscape designer to develop a plan you can implement for your front yard.
Also, maybe some sort of fence enclosure in front. Low lines, with heavier trellis - arbor tops lend well to the craftsman look I think . This could help reduce the landscape costs too?
Paint the brick, paint the siding so the whole body of the house is one color, including eaves, beam at entry portico, trim around garage. Paint the sidelights and their trim pewter. Around the entry door and the window trim, change the white to be tinted with the pewter cast, or use this coordinating tone http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/SW7035-aesthetic-white/
Buy some large format 6" high modern font house numbers and mount them perfectly horizontal and a bit lower than where they are now to be seen from the street. Coordinate them with a new modern entry fixture in chrome.
Replace your front door with a crestview front door like http://www.crestviewdoors.com/order/crestview-doors-and-entry-systems/nokona-door.html
and paint it red-orange (if your color palette is warm inside) or purple-blue (if your color palette inside leans cool).
Voila - you fit in, but you stand out. Yep, then you should study local hardy plants and do some foundation plantings (but, plan your flower color to the house door) and can fill the existing bed between garage and entry door with rounded river rock bedding under the existing shrub for texture.
Painted brick is almost more modern than stone. Facing masonry with stone these days often means a "cultured stone" product - not real, color blends that are often poor representations of natural stone (some are good, but most, not) and subject to ugliness when damaged and the fakeness is revealed. You can buy real stone veneer but here, when your goal is modern, this could be a big expense for little return.
If you don't mind the expense of real stone, I would put stone on the brick parts as well as in the tcucked in area of the front door.Stacked stone is an updated look that will be classic as well.
I won't mention the garage doors (as they have been beaten to death, lol) except to say that I think you should also paint them the same color as tyhe rest of the house. That way, the focal point ids your front entrance. I can't really see your door, but I would paint out the white trim between the door and the sidelight in the same color as the door. I think the stripe look it gives is distracting.
I don't think your yard needs many plants to bring it into looking nice either. If you want a more updated look for your garden , it seems that less is more these days.