Someone quoted “Do not judge a book by its cover”. However, visuals are the very first things that attract us towards something. Therefore, home exteriors play a vital role in creating a great first impression of your house. It showcases how creatively and uniquely designed a building is. And who doesn’t want people to stop by and say “Wow! look at that beautiful house?”

The best way to start with your house exteriors is to know what attracts you the most. The first step is to make a mood board of the best house exteriors and then choose the one that appeals to you the most. This will help you to move ahead with designing your own house exteriors.

We are now going to talk about various aspects of house exteriors like style, design principles, house exterior colors, materials, textures, lighting fixtures, etc.

Some important things to keep in mind to design a creative facade for your house-

1. STYLE-

The style of your house is the most important thing that can make your house stand out among others on the street. The facade design of your house should have a style that inspires you the most. Styles that grabs your attention, can be modern, contemporary, traditional, or whatever else you want.

2. DESIGN PRINCIPLES:

Design principles are a crucial part of any design. This is the only thing that can make or break the look of your facade. So, how can you use these principles in achieving what you have in your mind?

A. Proportions are the key to a visually pleasing composition for your house exteriors, which can be achieved by balancing the sizes, colors, placement, and spacing of different elements. The proportion could also be seen in terms of height, width and the number of each element throughout any house exterior.

B. One way is by the repetition of an element, color, texture to form a sort of a pattern.

C. Another is by creating a point of focus and then emerging other elements from that focal point.

D. You can also have an axis which can be formed by continuing a line literally or visually, or through continuity of a pattern, something that leads the eye along the elevation.

E. The main thing is to have unity in your house facade. To attain that you need to link all these design principles and have a balance between them.

3. MATERIALS:- TEXTURE AND COLOR COMBINATION-

In exteriors, the most important thing to be considered is the durability of the materials used. If materials are durable, your house exteriors will last beautifully for a longer period of time. The choice of materials also depends on the style of your house.

Once again this task requires some balancing between colors and textures at the same time, they should be both durable and visually appealing.

4. How to come to a decision with all those marvellous colors to choose from?

This too depends on the style of your house, also, whether you want your facade to be basic or bold.

Too much can turn your design into chaos, so it’s always recommended to have 2-3 colors and a maximum of two textures in your house facade. The best way is to choose one color and then go for tints and shades of that color. Like if you are going for brown color, use a light and dark shade of it with a combination of different textures. Ideally, use light colors for the body of your house exteriors and the darker shade for small features.

Adding standard textures to the wall while designing the elevation can give an exceptional look to your facade design.

5. LIGHTING FIXTURES-

Lights are of great significance from the appearance perspective. Also, for the safety and security of the house during the night. And nothing refreshes the look of your house like strategically placed outdoor lighting fixtures.

You can go for wall lights to create focus at a particular point or make different patterns using various lights available in the market.

At the same time, your lighting fixtures should match your style and should also be similar to an indoor one, to create connectivity between indoors and outdoors.

CONCLUSION–

The number of compositions of elements on the building facade, and the contrasting balance between them, when viewed from near or far, determine the quality of your design.

The main focus while designing the house exterior should be the quality of the design elements instead of the quantity.