Nobody mentioned your property exterior needed to be all brick, all stone or all wooden. Mixing up supplies lends visible curiosity, particularly while you incorporate one thing as an accent piece. For instance, Mosher has seen that stained wooden has change into a well-liked selection, discovering its manner into header beams on a porch, windowsill particulars, pediments, gables and wooden plank siding, simply to call just a few.

“[Other] nice choices for the textured supplies [are] stone, siding and board and batten. Steel roofs and metallic awnings (the cheaper model of the metallic roofs) have gotten tremendous standard as properly,” she provides.

Relating to utilizing these supplies in your house exterior, Mosher recommends utilizing gables or bump-outs, which can create a special design airplane. A extra budget-friendly possibility is to make use of the identical cladding materials (whether or not that’s stone, wooden or brick, and so on.) throughout the outside however to alter the colour to 1 in the identical complementary household.

“You possibly can pull the darkest or the lightest [color] from the stone or brick, and you’d use that coloration for the gable or the bump out,” she explains.

Typically, all it takes so as to add a pop of originality to your property—particularly in the event you stay in a neighborhood stuffed with observe homes—is a coat of paint over the brick or stone, one other development on the uptick.