There are a lot of house styles out there. Colonial, Craftsman, Mediterranean, transitional… There’s no shortage of types of homes, and that’s before you get into the ones that borrow a little from several styles.
Knowing your home’s architectural style can make exterior decisions much easier. It gives you a starting point for everything from paint colors and materials to windows, lighting, landscaping, and the details worth keeping.
But here’s the part we think matters most: Your house style is a guide, not a rulebook.
At brick&batten, we’ve worked on more than 15,000 exterior designs, and plenty of those homes don’t fit perfectly into one category. Some have been renovated over the years. Some were built with features from several architectural periods. Others have owners who simply want their traditional house to feel a little more modern.
All of these choices are great. Our goal isn’t to make your home pass an exam; it’s to help you identify what’s working, what’s not, and to make design choices that make your home feel a little more like you.
Consider this your ultimate guide to the most common house styles, how to recognize them, and how to update them, all compiled by our expert designers.
What Are the Most Common House Styles?
Common house styles in the US include:
- Colonial
- Cape Cod
- Craftsman
- Bungalow
- Ranch
- Tudor
- Victorian
- Cottage
- French country
- Mediterranean
- Spanish
- Mid-Century Modern (MCM)
- Contemporary
- Modern farmhouse
- Coastal
- Traditional
- Transitional
Each of these styles isn’t equal everywhere. The architecture found within your region varies greatly depending on your geography, climate, and history. In a study brick&batten helped HomeAdvisor powered by Angi develop, preferences for house styles varied significantly by state. Cottage ranked highest overall in that survey, followed closely by contemporary, Mediterranean, and Craftsman styles.
And sometimes, a home you’re looking at is a combination of several home types. Before we get into each style, here’s more about what our professional designers actually look at when identifying one.
How Can You Tell What Your House Style Is?
To identify your house style, our designers start by looking at your home’s overall shape, then its roofline, windows, entry, siding or masonry, porches, symmetry, and other architectural details. It’s important to start with the bones of the house rather than the paint color that the prior owner chose 15 years ago.
Look at:
- Roofline: Flat, gabled, hipped, gambrel, steeply pitched, or low-slung?
- Overall shape: Tall and narrow, low and sprawling, symmetrical, or asymmetrical?
- Windows: Large expanses of glass, small divided panes, arches, dormers?
- Entry: Centered, recessed, arched, covered by a porch?
- Materials: Brick, stucco, wood, stone, shake, horizontal siding?
- Architectural details: Beams, brackets, columns, half-timbering, shutters, exposed rafters?
- Porches: Full-width, wraparound, compact portico, or none at all?
If you need some help with the terminology, our brick&batten Exterior Design Dictionary can help break down each of these architectural elements.
Designer Tip: Start With Architecture, Not Pinterest
One of the easiest ways to make an exterior feel disjointed is to pick a style you love online and start attaching its features to a house that speaks a completely different architectural language.
We’d much rather ask: what does this house already want to be? Then we can decide where to stay true to that architecture and where it makes sense to introduce your personal style.
That philosophy is central to brick&batten’s approach. Our designers look at what clients want to keep, what they want to change, and the common threads in their inspiration instead of forcing every home into a rigid design category.
Traditional House Styles
What Is a Traditional-Style House?
A traditional-style house uses elements like balanced proportions, gabled roofs, defined trim, and a polished, timeless exterior.
Keep in mind that “traditional” is broader than Colonial, Tudor, or Cape Cod. Think of it as a design family rather than one exact architectural formula.
Common traditional exterior features include:
- Symmetrical or balanced façades
- Gabled roofs
- Brick, stone, or lap siding
- Defined window and door trim
- Shutters when they’re appropriately sized
- Classic lighting
- Warm or restrained color palettes
Traditional doesn’t have to mean stuffy, formal, or frozen in time. In fact, we’re seeing renewed interest in refined traditional homes that preserve classic proportions while simplifying colors and details.
How Do You Update a Traditional House?
To update a traditional house, keep the architectural balance that makes the style feel timeless while refreshing dated colors, materials, lighting, doors, and landscaping.
This is one style where restraint goes a long way.
You might modernize the palette, simplify shutters, introduce warmer wood, or update the front entrance without stripping away the features that give the home its character.
For more examples, see our traditional house exterior transformations.
Colonial House Styles
What Is a Colonial House?
A Colonial house is typically rectangular and symmetrical, with a centered or nearly centered entrance, evenly spaced windows, and a simple roofline. Colonial architecture reflects early European influence in America, and several variations developed over time.
Common features of Colonials include:
- Strong symmetry
- Two or more stories
- Centered front door
- Brick, clapboard, or siding
- Small porticos or porches
- Defined shutters
- Simple gabled roofs
Dutch Colonials are a notable variation, easily recognized by their gambrel roofs.
How Do You Modernize a Colonial Exterior?
To modernize a Colonial exterior, preserve its proportion and symmetry while updating elements such as the color palette, lighting, front door, shutters, landscaping, and exterior finishes. You usually don’t need to fight the symmetry – it’s one of the home’s biggest strengths.
Our Colonial-style home transformations are a good example of how relatively small exterior changes can make a traditional façade feel much more cohesive.
Cape Cod House Styles
What Is a Cape Cod House?
A Cape Cod house is typically a compact, simple home with a steep roof, side gables, a central entry, clapboard or shake siding, and a generally symmetrical façade. Traditional Capes originated in New England, but the style spread across the country.
Common Cape Cod features include:
- Steep gabled roof
- Small roof overhang
- Central or side chimney
- Clapboard or shake siding
- Simple rectangular shape
- Central entry
- Dormers on many later versions
A Cape doesn’t have to be perfectly symmetrical, and dormers aren’t required. Additions and second-story expansions have created plenty of variations over the years.
How Do You Make a Cape Cod House Look More Modern?
To modernize a Cape Cod house, simplify dated details while keeping the cozy proportions and recognizable roofline intact. Fresh siding, deeper color, updated lighting, a more substantial entry, natural materials, and cleaner landscaping can give the style an entirely new personality.
See some of our modern Cape Cod house updates for examples.
Craftsman House Styles
What Is a Craftsman House?
A Craftsman house emphasizes craftsmanship, natural materials, substantial construction, and visible architectural details. This style grew out of the Arts and Crafts movement and often feels warm, grounded, and welcoming.
If you want to know if your home is a Craftsman, look for:
- Low-pitched gabled roofs
- Deep overhangs
- Exposed rafters
- Front porches
- Tapered or substantial columns
- Wood, stone, and brick
- Strong horizontal lines
- Visible structural details
How Do You Modernize a Craftsman House?
To modernize a Craftsman house, preserve its architectural details while simplifying the palette and refining materials. Rather than removing beams, rafters, or porch columns, our designers often use color and contrast to make those features more intentional.
Explore some of our modern Craftsman house exteriors for more ideas.
Designer Tip: Craftsman houses already have plenty of character! They usually don’t need more decorative details, they just need the existing ones to work together.
Bungalow House Styles
What Is a Bungalow House?
A bungalow is typically a one-story home, although some have a partial second story built into a sloped roof with dormers. Bungalows became common in the U.S. during the early 20th century and are especially prevalent in parts of the Midwest and West.
Common features of bungalow homes include:
- One or one-and-a-half stories
- Sloping roof
- Dormers
- Wide front porch
- Compact footprint
- Low, approachable proportions
Bungalow and Craftsman are often used together because many Craftsman homes are bungalow-shaped, but the terms don’t mean exactly the same thing.
See some of our bungalow-style exterior design examples for a deeper look at the style.
Ranch House Styles
What Is a Ranch-Style House?
A ranch house is typically a low, one-story home with a long horizontal footprint, simple rooflines, and an easy connection between indoor and outdoor spaces. Ranches became particularly popular in the mid-20th century.
In ranch homes, you’ll often see:
- One-story construction
- Low-pitched roof
- Wide façade
- Attached garage
- Large windows
- Simple floor plan
- Horizontal emphasis
- Minimal ornamentation
Their simplicity is exactly what makes ranch homes so flexible.
How Do You Make a Ranch House Look More Modern?
To modernize a ranch house, emphasize its long lines rather than trying to disguise them. Updated siding, mixed materials, larger windows, modern doors, simplified landscaping, and thoughtful contrast can turn a basic ranch into something striking.
For plenty of examples, browse some of our modern ranch-style homes.
Split-Level House Styles
What Is a Split-Level House?
A split-level house separates living spaces across staggered floor levels rather than stacking two complete stories directly on top of each other.
Split levels became popular beginning in the 1950s. Depending on the layout, you may see multiple levels clearly from the front, or the changes in elevation may be more obvious from the side.
How Do You Update a Split-Level Exterior?
To update a split-level exterior, use color, materials, landscaping, and architectural features to create hierarchy among the different sections of the house. This is especially important around the entrance. Split levels can sometimes make the front door visually disappear, so establishing a clear focal point can transform the façade.
Our split-level house exterior ideas show how our designers use different materials and colors to bring structure to these homes.
Tudor House Styles
What Is a Tudor-Style House?
A Tudor-style house is typically recognized by steeply pitched roofs, overlapping front gables, masonry, decorative half-timbering, narrow windows, arched entrances, and prominent chimneys. American Tudor Revival homes became particularly popular during the early 20th century.
How Do You Modernize a Tudor House?
To modernize a Tudor house, work with its distinctive architecture instead of stripping it away. Fresh paint, simplified contrast, updated windows, warm wood, more restrained landscaping, and modern lighting can make a Tudor feel dramatically fresher.
Our guide to updating a Tudor-style home dives much deeper into this.
Designer Tip: If your house already has beautiful arches, masonry, rooflines, or half-timbering, those details probably aren’t the problem. They may just need better company.
Victorian House Styles
What Is a Victorian House?
A Victorian house is generally an ornate 19th-century-inspired home characterized by decorative architecture, steep roofs, elaborate trim, distinctive shapes, and often generous porches.
Depending on the Victorian subtype, you may see:
- Decorative woodwork
- Bay windows
- Towers or turrets
- Steep rooflines
- Wraparound porches
- Layered colors
- Intricate railings and trim
- Asymmetrical façades
Victorian homes are meant to have personality, so modernizing one usually isn’t about making it completely minimal. Our Victorian-style design tips show how details, porches, palettes, and landscaping can update the style without erasing its history.
Cottage House Styles
What Is a Cottage-Style House?
A cottage-style house is generally a smaller, cozy home with simple proportions and architectural details that create warmth and charm. Cottages are particularly difficult to define because they borrow from many other house styles, including Tudor and Cape Cod.
In a cottage-style house, you might see:
- Smaller footprint
- One or one-and-a-half stories
- Pitched roof
- Charming entry
- Textural siding
- Stone
- Window boxes
- Informal landscaping
What Is a Modern Cottage?
A modern cottage keeps the welcoming scale and character of a traditional cottage but simplifies the palette, materials, and decorative elements. It sits somewhere between charming and streamlined, which is probably why we’re seeing so much interest in the look right now.
Explore our modern cottage exterior guide and cottage-style home inspiration for both sides of the style.
French Country House Styles
What Is a French Country House?
A French country house combines rustic materials with elegant European-inspired architecture. Common features of French Country houses include:
- Steep rooflines
- Natural stone
- Limewashed brick
- Shutters
- Window boxes
- Warm, weathered textures
- A mix of symmetry and asymmetry
The result should feel refined but not precious. Our French country exterior examples show how natural materials, muted colors, and thoughtfully layered details can create that balance.
Mediterranean House Styles
What Is a Mediterranean-Style House?
A Mediterranean-style house draws from architecture found throughout Mediterranean regions and commonly features stucco walls, tile roofs, arches, natural textures, and strong indoor-outdoor connections. Typical elements of Mediterranean homes include:
- Stucco
- Clay tile roofs
- Arched doors and windows
- Iron details
- Warm wood
- Courtyards and patios
- Natural stone
- Warm or sun-washed color palettes
Mediterranean homes can feel ornate, but updating them doesn’t mean removing all of that character. Our Mediterranean-style exterior transformations show how paint, hardscaping, doors, landscaping, and other targeted updates can make the style feel current.
Spanish House Styles
What Is a Spanish-Style House?
A Spanish-style house commonly uses stucco, tile roofing, arches, dark wood, ironwork, and warm natural materials. Spanish and Mediterranean styles overlap, but they aren’t interchangeable. Mediterranean is a broader category influenced by multiple regions around the Mediterranean, while Spanish architecture draws more specifically from Spain and Spanish Colonial traditions.
How Can You Update a Spanish-Style Home?
To update a Spanish-style home, keep the strong architectural elements and simplify anything that feels overly ornate or dated. Warm white stucco, wood accents, streamlined ironwork, intentional landscaping, and refreshed doors can all modernize the exterior while respecting the architecture.
See our Spanish-style home exterior ideas for examples.
Mid-Century Modern House Styles
What Is a Mid-Century Modern House?
A Mid-Century Modern (MCM) house emphasizes simple lines, geometric forms, functionality, expansive windows, and a strong connection to nature. This style is generally associated with homes built during the 1940s through the 1960s.
To identify an MCM, look for:
- Low or flat rooflines
- Asymmetrical forms
- Floor-to-ceiling windows
- Strong geometry
- Warm wood
- Minimal ornamentation
- Indoor-outdoor connection
How Should You Update a Mid-Century Modern Exterior?
To update a Mid-Century Modern exterior, our designers recommend protecting its simplicity. This isn’t the house to cover with decorative shutters, complicated trim, and six unrelated materials. Instead, focus on:
- Warm natural materials
- Strong geometry
- Intentional color
- Large windows
- Simple landscaping
- Statement front doors
- Clean lines
Our broader guide to modern home architecture styles explores Mid-Century Modern alongside several related styles.
Contemporary House Styles
What Is a Contemporary House?
A contemporary house reflects current design rather than one fixed historical period. That’s the biggest distinction between modern vs. contemporary design: Modern generally refers to a defined 20th-century design movement, while contemporary continues changing with the present.
Contemporary homes commonly feature:
- Asymmetry
- Large windows
- Clean geometry
- Mixed materials
- Wood, concrete, stone, glass, and metal
- Simplified details
- Strong indoor-outdoor connections
Browse our contemporary house designs for more examples.
Designer Tip: Contemporary Doesn’t Have to Mean Cold
One of the biggest shifts we’re seeing in current exterior design is toward warmer modern and contemporary homes. Wood, earthy colors, stone, limewash, warmer neutrals, and landscaping can soften clean contemporary architecture without muddying its lines.
Modern House Styles
What Is a Modern House?
A modern house emphasizes function, simplicity, clean forms, minimal ornamentation, and thoughtful use of materials. Unlike contemporary design, “modern” generally references design principles that grew out of earlier modernist movements. Modern architecture can include several related directions, such as:
- Mid-Century Modern
- Minimalist
- Industrial
- Organic modern
- Modern ranch
- Modern farmhouse
Our modern home architecture guide shows how different those interpretations can look while still sharing a simplified, design-forward approach.
Organic Modern House Styles
What Is an Organic Modern Exterior?
An organic modern exterior blends clean modern architecture with natural materials, earthy colors, and softer textures. We’ve described it before as essentially a modern design with a cozy twist.
In an organic modern exterior, you can expect to see:
- Wood
- Natural stone
- Warm neutral colors
- Clean architectural lines
- Layered textures
- Organic landscaping
- Minimal decoration
It’s particularly useful for homeowners who love modern design but don’t want their home to feel stark. Read our organic modern exterior guide for a closer look.
Modern Farmhouse House Styles
What Is a Modern Farmhouse?
A modern farmhouse combines the welcoming feel of traditional farmhouse architecture with cleaner lines, simplified detailing, and more current materials. Common elements of modern farmhouses include:
- Vertical or board-and-batten siding
- Front porches
- Wood details
- Metal accents
- Simple rooflines
- Neutral or earthy palettes
- Natural materials
Keep in mind that modern farmhouse has changed in recent years. The copy-and-paste white house, black windows, and barn-light-everywhere approach is starting to give way to warmer colors, richer textures, natural stone, wood, and more regionally appropriate interpretations.
You can explore the evolution in our modern farmhouse guide and our more detailed modern farmhouse exterior design article.
Transitional House Styles
What Is a Transitional House?
A transitional house blends traditional architecture with cleaner, more current design choices. Think of it as the Goldilocks approach to exterior design: not overly traditional, not aggressively modern. Transitional exteriors often use:
- Classic proportions
- Simplified trim
- Neutral palettes
- Natural textures
- Warm wood
- Modern lighting
- A combination of straight and organic lines
At brick&batten, our designers like to describe transitional style as combining old and new while keeping the overall exterior calm and uncluttered. Our transitional exterior inspiration goes deeper into the style.
Why Is Transitional Design So Useful for Renovations?
Transitional design works particularly well for renovations because you don’t have to pretend your existing house is something it isn’t. You can preserve the traditional brick, roofline, or proportions and introduce cleaner colors, wood, lighting, materials, and details around them.
Coastal House Styles
What Is a Coastal-Style House?
A coastal house takes cues from its surroundings through light colors, natural materials, relaxed details, and a strong connection to outdoor living. However, coastal style can look different depending on location. For example, a Maine coastal home may feel rustic, a Florida home might lean tropical, and a California coastal property might look much more modern.
Common coastal home features include:
- Soft whites
- Muted blues and greens
- Weathered or warm wood
- Natural textures
- Outdoor living
- Airy palettes
- Landscaping connected to the setting
See our coastal home exterior inspiration for examples across several interpretations.
More House Styles to Explore
Now that we’ve covered the major house styles, here are a few more architectural types and design directions to explore throughout the brick&batten blog.
Modern + Nature-Inspired Styles
The Modern Cabin
Material-Driven Exterior Styles
Craftsman Exterior Paint Colors
Homes That Don’t Fit One Perfect Style
Suburban House Exterior Update
Can You Mix Different House Styles?
Yes, you can mix different house styles, and many homes already do. In fact, homeowners who come to us increasingly ask us to blend several design directions into one exterior.
Successful combinations we’ve worked on before include:
- Traditional + modern
- Transitional + Mid-Century Modern
- Farmhouse + contemporary
- Modern + organic
- Japanese + Scandinavian, or Japandi
- Mid-Century Modern + coastal
According to our designers, the trick is to avoid a design where every feature seems to come from a different Pinterest board.
How Do You Mix House Styles Without Making the Exterior Look Confused?
To mix house styles successfully, identify which style will lead and which style will influence the details. Then repeat a limited palette of:
- Colors
- Materials
- Shapes
- Finishes
- Architectural lines
For example, you might keep a home’s traditional architecture but introduce contemporary lighting, simpler landscaping, a cleaner palette, and warm wood. That’s a much more coherent approach than adding a modern door, farmhouse shutters, Mediterranean lighting, and Craftsman columns because you happened to like each one separately.
Our guide to different house styles that look good together explores several combinations our designers have used.
What Should You Keep When Updating a House Style?
When updating any house style, consider keeping features that are structurally sound, architecturally meaningful, expensive to replace, or already contributing positively to the design. That could include:
- Brick
- Stone
- A newer roof
- Good windows
- Original beams
- Quality doors
- Strong porch proportions
- Character-defining arches
- Well-scaled shutters
- Existing mature landscaping
Designer Tip: Good exterior design isn’t measured by how many things you change. Sometimes knowing what not to change is the more important design decision.
How Do You Choose Exterior Colors for Different House Styles?
Choose exterior colors by starting with your home’s architecture and fixed materials rather than picking a favorite paint swatch first. Consider:
- Roof
- Brick or stone
- Windows
- Permanent siding
- Architecture
- Surroundings
- Natural light
- Desired style direction
Then, build the color palette around those constraints.
The same color can communicate very different things depending on the house. A creamy white on a Colonial might feel classic. On a Mediterranean home, it can feel sun-washed and warm. On a contemporary home paired with wood and dark windows, it can feel clean and current.
Designer Tip: Color supports the style. It shouldn’t be expected to create the entire style by itself.
How Do Materials Affect House Styles?
Exterior materials are one of the strongest visual signals of house style. Here are some of the most common categories of materials you’ll find based on different home styles.
| House Style | Materials Associated With It |
| Craftsman | Wood, stone, brick |
| Tudor | Brick, stucco, timber, stone |
| Mediterranean | Stucco, tile, stone, iron |
| Spanish | Stucco, clay tile, wood, iron |
| Modern | Wood, concrete, metal, glass |
| Modern Farmhouse | Vertical siding, wood, stone, metal |
| Cottage | Shake, siding, brick, stone |
| Colonial | Brick, clapboard, traditional siding |
| Organic Modern | Wood, stone, textured natural materials |
| Coastal | Shake, siding, weathered or warm wood |
How Do brick&batten Designers Approach Different House Styles?
At brick&batten, we start with your actual home, not a generic style template. Our expert exterior designers consider:
1. The Architecture
What kind of house is it, and what features give it character?
2. What’s Staying
Roof, windows, brick, stone, siding, structures, landscaping, or anything else you already like.
3. Your Style
What are you drawn to, even if you don’t know exactly what to call it?
4. Color
Which palette works with the architecture and elements that are staying?
5. Materials
Where would texture, contrast, or a material change actually improve the façade?
6. The Focal Point
Where should the eye go first? Often, that’s the front entry.
7. Exterior Details
Lighting, doors, shutters, gutters, house numbers, planters, trim, and other finishing elements.
8. The Whole Property
How do landscaping and hardscaping support the architecture?
This is why identifying a house style is useful, but simply naming it isn’t enough. A good exterior still has to work as one complete design, and that’s what our designers do best.
Your House Style Is the Starting Point, Not the Finish Line
Understanding different house styles can help you make smarter decisions about everything from paint colors and siding to landscaping, lighting, and architectural details. But identifying your architecture is only step one: Your home still needs to feel like your home.
Maybe you love your Tudor’s roofline but want the exterior to feel less traditional. Maybe your ranch has great bones but needs warmth. Or maybe your Colonial needs only a few strategic changes. Or maybe your house is such a mashup of styles that you’ve stopped trying to name it altogether.
That’s where professional exterior design comes into play.
brick&batten’s designers partner with you to understand the home you have, the features you love, the ones you’re ready to rethink, and the style you’re trying to achieve. Then we bring everything together in a photorealistic design so you can see how the entire exterior works before you invest in paint, materials, products, or contractors.
The goal isn’t to make your house fit perfectly into a category. It’s to make your home feel like the best version of itself.
Explore brick&batten exterior design services or schedule a free 15-minute consultation with our team to talk through your project.
House Styles FAQs
What are the most common house styles?
Some of the most common house styles include Colonial, Cape Cod, Craftsman, ranch, bungalow, Tudor, Victorian, cottage, Mediterranean, Spanish, contemporary, Mid-Century Modern, farmhouse, traditional, and transitional. Which house styles are most common can vary significantly by region and the period when an area was developed.
How can I identify my house style?
You can identify your house style by looking at the roofline, overall shape, windows, entrance, materials, porch, symmetry, and architectural details. Look at the permanent architecture before focusing on easily changed elements such as paint, lighting, or landscaping.
Designer Tip: Don’t worry if your home doesn’t check every box for one style. Plenty of houses borrow from several architectural traditions, and renovations over the years can blur those lines even further.
Can a house have more than one architectural style?
Yes, a house can have more than one architectural style. Hybrid homes are common, and brick&batten clients frequently ask our designers to combine different style preferences in the same exterior. The key is choosing elements that complement one another so the finished design feels complete.
What is the difference between modern and contemporary house styles?
The difference between modern and contemporary house styles is that modern design generally refers to defined 20th-century design movements, while contemporary design reflects what is current now. Contemporary style can evolve as design trends change.
What house style is easiest to modernize?
There isn’t one house style that is always easiest to modernize. Ranches, traditional homes, farmhouses, cottages, Tudors, and other styles can all feel more current when the updates respond to the architecture rather than working against it.
Designer Tip: We’d focus less on whether your house is “easy” to modernize and more on which existing features are worth keeping. Often, a new palette, better material balance, stronger entry, and simpler details can create a bigger transformation than homeowners expect.
Do I need to keep my exterior historically accurate?
No, you don’t necessarily need to keep your exterior historically accurate unless your property is subject to historic-preservation requirements or that is personally important to you. For most homeowners, it’s possible to respect the home’s architectural character while introducing colors, materials, and details that better reflect how you want the house to feel today.
Can I make my traditional house look more modern?
Yes, you can make a traditional house look more modern without removing everything that makes it traditional. Simplifying the palette, reducing unnecessary ornamentation, introducing warm natural materials, updating lighting, and refining landscaping can create a fresher look while preserving the home’s proportions and character.
Should my landscaping match my house style?
Your landscaping should complement your house style, but it doesn’t need to follow a rigid theme. Plant scale, structure, hardscape materials, sightlines, and the overall feeling of the landscape should support the architecture and help important exterior features stand out.
How do I know which exterior features I should keep?
You can decide which exterior features to keep by looking at their condition, architectural value, replacement cost, and how well they contribute to the overall design. Quality masonry, newer roofing, character-defining windows, strong architectural details, and mature landscaping may all be worth designing around rather than replacing.
Designer Tip: We don’t start a project by asking, “How much can we change?” We start by figuring out what’s already working. Sometimes the smartest exterior design move is leaving a great feature exactly where it is.
Can brick&batten help if I don’t know my house style?
Yes, brick&batten can help even if you don’t know your house style. You can share photos of your actual home, your goals, and inspiration you like, and a dedicated designer can help create a cohesive direction using professionally selected colors, materials, and exterior details. The final design includes a photorealistic rendering so you can see the vision before investing in the changes.
Looking for more expert guidance from our designers? Check out our complete guide to landscaping!
