14 Elegant Exterior Facades for a Flawless Exterior

The first thing a guest notices in your home is your exterior. It’s your best chance to make your home look palatial, and dramatic, and pose an awe-inspiring look, to build suspense in their minds before they actually get to see the grandeur of your interiors. Notice how we didn’t say large, or expensive homes? That’s the point. No matter what type of house you’re planning for – a small cottage or a large mansion, you can bring home exterior facades that make your home look like a million bucks.

Here are 14 popular facade choices you should capitalize on when building your dream house. 

Timeless Exterior Facades

1. Textured Paint

Textured paint in home exteriors is a type of paint that contains additives such as sand, silica, or other textured materials to create a tactile surface. This textured finish adds depth, dimension, and visual interest to the exterior walls of a home, providing a unique aesthetic and helping to disguise imperfections on the surface. Creamy white textured paint is a lovely color for home exteriors. Bright white colors were all the rage, but it looks clinical, fades easily with the weather, and shows wear and tear. You can replace the bright white with softer, warmer whites that look like white.

Read als0 – The Complete Guide To Use Textures in Interior Design

2. Earthy Tones and Dark Paint Colors

Soft home exterior colors are OK, but darker colors are taking root in the interior design industry. Dark, rich, moody exterior colors like charcoal, deep green, and royal blue make the house traditional, palatial, and one-of-a-kind. A fully dark exterior can be too much to look at, but here’s a neat trick. Consider color blocking – where you use dark colors on one or more sections of your home without committing one color to the entire exterior. 

Read also – How to Pick the Perfect White Paint Color for Your Space

3. Wooden Accents

Wood headers over your window, wood posts on your porch, and natural wood gables are perfect accents to add to your home exterior facade if you don’t want to go all-in with a wooden facade. It adds a level of comfort, depth, and a natural home feeling when looked at.

4. White Painted Brick

A timeless trend, and an indicator of a classic, palatial home. No matter how new your home is, white-painted bricks can add character, and a sense of luxury no other material or color can bring in.

5. Red Brick Exterior

Rustic, and a traditional exterior facade, it has been used for centuries. It’s naturally fire-resistant, battles any weather, and is pretty easy to maintain. It can be installed easily. One bonus feature is since there are visible grout lines between the bricks, it allows for proper ventilation and protects against moisture and allergen build-up. You can get red bricks in different shapes, finishes, and forms, and incorporate them in any design style you’re going with.

6. English Cottage

These are exterior styles and facades you see in quintessential, cozy cottages in the English countryside. They mostly have a combination of stone, wood, brick, Pickett fences, dormers, and thatched roofs, and even when you completely customize them to infuse your tastes and preferences, they’ll still look impeccable just like the cottages of yore.

Read also – How Interior Designers Create a 3D Home Exterior

7. All-Stone Exterior

You can select one or a few areas to install an all-stone exterior. Stone is one of the most expensive facade options, like granite, or limestone – you can either choose to go big and make it look luxurious, or go for less expensive options like faux stone, or stone veneer options. If you go for natural stones, you can rest assured they’ll be super durable, and weather, and fire-resistant. It has several decades of lifespan, and no damage can be done to fading caused by UV rays. 

8. Faux Stone Exterior

Faux stone is made of PPC, and materials that are soft and lightweight, but super-strong. They can be painted in any colors you want, any finish or texture you want. They bear the brunt of the climate, rain or shine. You can install them easily if you want to go for a DIY project or get a handyman to help out. The faux stone is a much cheaper option than real stone. The added benefit is it’s affordable. 

9. Aluminum Composite Panels

Aluminum composite panels are also called Alupanel, Dibond, and Alubond, by the build community. It’s a sandwich panel with three layers – a core layer of polythene, and black plastic material surrounded by two aluminum outer layers. It’s weather, wind, and temperature resistant. It doesn’t shrink or expand and is strong and durable. You can use it for interiors and exteriors and is lightweight. The material is easy to maintain, install, and color. You can either spray paint or paint on it with a roller brush. The material will stay fit the entire time you use it in the exterior. 

10. Glass Exterior

An eco-friendly facade option, glass exteriors are easy to fix, and the finish are almost seamless. It looks minimalistic. You can customize it to any extent, it’s resistant to weather and fire and is easy to install. Talk about maintenance, glass is one of the easiest to maintain. Install an energy-efficient glass, and solar panels on top, and you will be amazed at how much power bill you save. 

11. Fibre Cement Cladding

Comes in clapboards, like bricks. It’s an excellent protection against the elements and is super low maintenance. It’s durable and lasts long. Suits all types of homes, regardless of which design style you adopt. It can be made to look like other materials. Be it roofing or facades, you can be assured of the strength it carries. You can choose which type of fiber you need – be it cellulose fibers, steel fibers, and synthetic fibers. Comes at a low cost, and is easy to maintain no matter which area you live in. It’s termite-proof, so you don’t have to worry about infestation. It’s inherently fire resistant, has water tightness, and lasts long. 

12. Metal Cladding

Makes the home look like a commercial space. It has a costly look to it. The material is fast to install, quick, and easy to paint. You can color the metal to match with your windows, and other elements to accentuate the look of your house. You can choose between horizontal or vertical running. Easy way to make the exterior seem like a million dollars. 

13. Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Concrete is weak in tension, and if we don’t have any reinforcement in the concrete, it can’t be good because it can cause cracks. The concrete won’t crack if it’s held by these fibers. These fibers don’t stop cracks from forming, but they keep the crack small and increase the strength of the concrete. It has a long life, and immense strength to hold up if the weather turns fierce. The material reduces damage in a fire and prevents corrosion over time. 

14. High Pressure Laminate

The iconic exterior facade of the modern design style. It’s an artificial rock solid board, it’s elegant, long-lasting, and water-resistant. The laminate is versatile, so you can use it on exteriors, and interiors as well. Be it facades, gardens, backyards, or furniture, laminate is incredibly useful. It can look like wood, and create the same visual interest and depth real wood creates. Like wood, and even better than wood, it’s durable. 

How Can Foyr Neo Help You Decide Which Exterior Facade to Go For?

Now that you know what to add, and what to discard, it’s time to put your favorite natural materials in your home exterior, social media inspiration, and designer’s inputs together and identify which ones are crucial for you, so you can create your dream fancy exterior in a short while.

After you get the floor plan of the area and get a sneak peek of how the home exterior might be situated, here’s what you can do:

Step 1: Sign up for Foyr Neo’s 14-day trial.

Step 2: Go on to the Neo mood board and curate everything you’d love to have on your home exterior facade while keeping the above-mentioned points as your guide.

Step 3: Create the floor plan of your home exterior on Neo.

Step 4: Choose from 60,000+ 3D decor materials and simply drag and drop them into the design. Alternatively, you can choose an exterior facade from the 10,000+ design templates we have, and start customizing straightaway.

Step 5: Get any material in any color, texture, shape, or pattern and truly customize your exterior facade.

Step 6: View the design in 2D and 3D, from all possible angles and lighting conditions.

Step 7: Render your design in a few minutes and witness your own space in all its glory.

That’s all it takes! With 24/7 support and live chat, we’re here to help you if you ever get stuck anywhere. You can find tutorials on how to design on Neo all over the internet, so you’re never truly alone when you design using Neo.

What are you waiting for? Start curating your mood board for your exterior facade, sign up for Foyr Neo’s 14-day free trial today.