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How would you improve the outside of this house?

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Soniarc · 31/08/2024 11:04

We purchased a new house a few months ago, and are thinking how we can improve the outside of it. The windows are perfectly fine so we don’t want to replace them (although may consider getting them wrapped or painted to grey).
The worst part is the rough rendering. I’ve taking a picture of it but it doesn’t to it justice to how awful it actually is - like a soupy yellow. I hate it.
So of course, rendering or cladding have come to mind. I don’t particularly like the look of brick, and I do love the monochrome grey/white look (I understand that this will soon the outdated, but I’ve always found it very calming, and this is our forever home, so we are making choices based on what we like, not what the next buyer will). I think we would have either all rendering in white (but then would need to paint the windows) or downstairs rendered and upstairs cladded in pale grey.
Has anyone experience in considering both cladding and rendering, and has decided to go for one or the other? How did it work out? Any other ideas?

How would you improve the outside of this house?
How would you improve the outside of this house?
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Geneticsbunny · 31/08/2024 11:14

Could you get some sort of insulated cladding for the whole exterior? Then you would be improving the EPC and making it cheaper to heat too. There are quite nice options now

rosielovesshabby · 31/08/2024 11:17

It's a lovely house, it looks nice already and not tatty but I get it that you want to smarten it up a bit.
Agree with PP cladding would look lovely

Gemstonebeach · 31/08/2024 11:19

Just paint it white, looks like windows are white too so no need to paint. Is that a hearse parked in front of the garage?! Or just angle of photo making car look long.

rosielovesshabby · 31/08/2024 11:20

Gemstonebeach · 31/08/2024 11:19

Just paint it white, looks like windows are white too so no need to paint. Is that a hearse parked in front of the garage?! Or just angle of photo making car look long.

I did wonder why the car is so long 😂 I'm on the lookout for an estate so I wondered what make of car this is..

overgrowntoddler · 31/08/2024 11:36

It fine but you could do some really easy fixes

Trim trees into a neat box shape
Paint a lighter cream
Clean the roof
Sort out the grass? Next to car
Fit a bin store
Pit in some block paving or resin to the drive

Other wise it looks like a nice sold family home.

Paint it last though because the. You could decide if you wanted to clad

Flubadubba · 31/08/2024 11:52

I wouldn't change the windows to grey as they will date quickly. Agree with many of the posters above on other points.

First of all, though, I would tame that hedging.

Soniarc · 31/08/2024 13:24

Insulated cladding, I’ll take a look! I sadly don’t know what the car is at it was the previous owner’s 😂, but not a hearst!!!
thank you for everyone’s tips! I’ve already had the hedges trimmed and the roof cleaned. A bin enclosure is a good one that I hadn’t thought about!

I’m from Spain so the aesthetic of a nice family home in the UK is a bit lost on me. I know I don’t like brick and that I do like grey (yes, I’m one of those!). What I think anyone can agree on is that the colour yellow needs to go, and that popcorn feel rendering is hideous close up.

im thinking composite cladding may be less work to maintain than white rendering.

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bellamountain · 31/08/2024 13:26

We rendered over our pebble dash and painted it white, we also have brick so the contrast looks good. Six years on now and the white still looks new. I'd definitely go for white as it's timeless and clean and avoid grey as it is looking dated on a lot of houses already.

Imanontoday · 31/08/2024 13:29

Gemstonebeach · 31/08/2024 11:19

Just paint it white, looks like windows are white too so no need to paint. Is that a hearse parked in front of the garage?! Or just angle of photo making car look long.

Looks like an Elongated Skoda as the pic is stretched, it’s a car length long,

benefitstaxcredithelp · 31/08/2024 13:33

The brickwork is lovely. Don’t cover that! UK house classic.

Agree though that the top half would look better white smooth render.

I don’t like grey window frames but I appreciate they look modern. What age is the house?

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