5 stunning house exterior transformations
Ideas and inspiration for updating a tired façade to give it a completely new look.
Take a critical look at your home from the street. With any luck it just needs sprucing up. But at the other extreme a home that’s stuck in a time warp can be given a whole a new façade. Some are easier to remodel than others. But these before and after house exteriors prove there’s plenty that can be done when a home has an lacklustre exterior.
Timber addition
This double-height extension is clad in Siberian larch. It links to the 1930s house by black fibre cement boards. The boards continue right up to the bay window. Simon Foote Architects designed the £250,000 project for blogger/stylist Katy Wilson of PlaceFortyEight, and her family. It includes a rear extension.
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Image: Matthew Jones Photography
Total transformation
Living Space Architects retained the width of the pitched brick gable of this three-bedroom 1970s bungalow in Devon. The practice were able to replace it with a rectangular box gable and projecting terrace. The project cost £246,000.
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Image: Brown Hill Photography
Character cladding
Roderick James Architects took on a 1920s four-bedroom detached house near Ottery St Mary, Devon, extending and renovating it. The original rendered building, now insulated and clad in untreated sawn larch, has a new pitched roof and links to a slate-hung extension. A wraparound oak-frame veranda ties it all together. The project cost £300,000.
