House is too plain - How do I dress it up?
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Karen Garner on Sep 26, 2016It's a lovely house. Window trim would be good. Shutters especially. This looks all beige. Shutters, and paint the front door a matching color. I love a muted red, maybe a burgundy would really dress up a monotone house like yours. If you and hubby can agree. Shades if blue look god against light warm colors tooHelpful Reply
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Karen Garner on Sep 26, 2016The fron landscaping looks really niceHelpful Reply
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Janet Pizaro on Sep 26, 2016Personally I would paint the front door and add some seasonal flowers to your landscape.Helpful Reply
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Sue Ryan on Sep 26, 2016I would add shutters, change the light fixtures to something in black to match the doors and window boxes. A cute fence would also add some punch. Something like thisHelpful Reply
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Johnchip on Sep 26, 2016It is a lovely house. I would paint the cross bars on the garage doors the darker tone of the house so it becomes two tone. thus less of a big flat monochromatic space. The trim on windows and house could either go a very bright white or maybe a nice robin's egg blue, door canary yellow. Over the garage you might want to consider a fake 'barn hayloft door' simple set of wood panels that look as if they would open up for hay loft . Get rid of the trash can, build a little fence/shed. (Never let the neighbor see you have 'trash') I would also box in the gutter running down the front between the garage and house, It is way too cheap looking for such a nice built house, Simple frame and cover, paint to match house so it blends in. trim in your trim color so it steps out and structurally separates the buildings.Helpful Reply
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Wowhavs on Sep 26, 2016Paint front door red. Window boxes on turet windows. Faux windows on garage doors (on hometalk). Hanging flower baskets or copper/black lantern lights on each side of entrance. Large black house numbers above the entrance. Maybe stylish shake shingles on gable above garage & perhaps the entrance. Copper/black lantern lights on each side of the garage doors. Wood rail fence up side of driveway with solar light caps on posts.Helpful Reply
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Coolfurniturelady on Sep 26, 2016Depending on your budget, I would bring the front door forward and replace the old front door with a french interior door (making the space between the two doors into a well decorated mud room.) Then you can choose an awesome color on the door that will be more noticeable. I would add side lights or make the exterior door a double door (if the space i wide enough. Then you can balance the turret roof with a similarly shaped overhang over the door.Helpful Reply
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Michelle Harbee on Sep 26, 2016I would suggest a more custom and decorative garage door. I'm thinking something detailed that's wooden or white with windows at the top.Helpful Reply
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Brad Mildern on Sep 27, 2016There is too much blank space above the garage doors and on the other wall section with the peaked roof. Fix matching triangles of trellis to those areas and grow a red and a white intertwined climbing rose up the garage one from both sides of the garage doors (Thats four rose bushes, they look dramatic when intertwined and will climb to cover the large blank area. Plant red and white standard roses under all the windows and keep trimmed to sill height as wellHelpful Reply
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Judy Riley on Oct 01, 2016you could always have hexagonal quilt type design painted on the two peeks(above the garage and front door) to match that tiny window, in bright colours and then plant flowers in the same colours as the quilt design in front of the houseHelpful Reply
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Sue Ryan on Oct 01, 2016Just paintbrushHelpful Reply
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Barbara Eble- on Oct 02, 2016paint the trim a dark brown and a bright front door. A tall bush or tree to cover the drain pipe, and planter boxes under the windowsHelpful Reply
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