Jennifer....I love, love your house! But I understand we all have different tastes in styles. Maybe your contractor could suggest a large round window in the triangle to kinda break up the wall there. More light in a bedroom is always good. Remember, you’ll be spending waay more time looking at the INSIDE of your house than the outside!!

I think you have a very good start to a great home!

If you have the location and interior and price you like - getting to an exterior you want will just take time, money and effort.

Take a look at this home below that has some features similar to your exterior features:

^this one breaks up the facade with color and material types. Work with an architect - he can turn this into the home of your dreams.

Find a home with the features similar to your prospective new home so the professional architect you hire to make the improved design has an idea of your preferences.

The lines on your home are great IMO. They are just flat right now due to the color and landscaping and garage door mishaps.

You have found a jewel...jump on it.

The only way to change the look from the front is with a MAJOR remodel. If you don't like it you shouldn't buy it, or else buy it with the understanding that you will spend lots of $ to change the exterior. Lopping off the top of the triangle and creating a gable over the garage, plus maybe flattening the top of the silo, would soften the look, but again, lots of $.

Each part of the house has siding going in a different direction. The garage has diagonal, the center has horizontal, the right side has vertical. If you replaced the siding so it was all one direction, no one part would be prominent. Would that help?

I have never cared for modern or mid-century houses but I think this is gorgeous. A tree where your trash bins are would soften the angles. Contact a landscaper.

OP, if you want to change the siding so it is going in the same direction...don't buy the house.

Part of the design is to deliberately showcase individual features with siding to accentuate that feature.

This is a quite a stylish contemporary. In general, if you don't love a house when you drive up, you are not likely to love it later. But sometimes location, great landscaping, and being the perfect home inside will overcome first impressions. Anything that tones down the tower and pointy parts is likely to be very expensive.

The inside must be what you want if you are willing to buy it even though you don't like the outside. You could paint the circular part of the house the same color as the roof and it would make it recede into house.

Or maybe you could add a dormer and square off the top of the circle. That would give it a more traditional look.

Just some paint. I love your house!

My house is a smaller, not as nice but a similar style. Mine was designed with a horizontal wood band and vertical wood going up from there in the peak section. That area is all painted a darker shade. Pretend it's matching to the rest of the vertical wood strips on the other side.

Sorry, don't have time or energy to do a proper mock-up. Also, don't know if this little change would make enough of a difference for you. Tried to do this on my little cell phone.

If you are looking for minimal investment with maximum impact, I would focus on the tower. You could swap out the angled window for a series of small square windows, and face the tower with rock. Then add a decorative element to the unadorned expanse opposite the garage on the second story. This will pull the focal point away from the garage. I also agree with the thought about adding another color or texture (shingles maybe) to help.

Love the tower with rock idea!

I’m not big fan of contemporary/modern, but I think that changing the siding style along with its color would make a huge difference...would still be contemporary, but be much more attractive. The lines of the house are fine....it’s that siding that needs a change.

It seems that you can add windows to the triangle part, but that tube would drive me insane. You say that you do not like contemporary, so move on and find what you love!

I like it, but you don’t & never will without some major changes. I would look for something else.

I agree that the siding serves to emphasize the architecture. Dark paint would minimize the effect. If you're into fun, color blocking could be a kick, as would a climbing wall. A round window in the master would be a wow that would echo the turet. If those are just stairs in the turet you could remove the window and add a skylight roof. I would pull out the current landscaping and hire a professional to map out one you could install over time.

Bright and funky with round windows...

'Round window in a slanted roof room.
Round window/bookcase and reading nook
Charcoal gray to neutralize the variation in siding directions.
Make the use of the wall as fun as the architecture
Do you or the kids rock climb?
It can certainly add unique interest!
Here's a nice combo of materials

I think this home has great potential with some changes in paint and perhaps a few additional features. The overall beige color is depressing and not consistent with the period. Here are some inspirational photos for you. With a added structure around the garage you would change the look while staying true to the period. If you painted a darker gray color your windows would be less eye catching. Notice how you have to kook hard at the dark gray home to see the angled windows. An addition of an ornamental tree such as weeping blue spruce to area where garbage cans are would also create more softness. Of course I would create a fenced area beside garages for those ugly garbage cans for sure! Good luck!!

Here is example of ornamental blue spruce with a stone column.

that could be a stunning, one of a kind, mid century knockout w/some professional tweaking. beige has to go. wood siding, black, gray, stonework, garage door, landscaping,,,how much can you afford because it won't be cheap. But you will have a house that no one else around you has! anyone else in the neighborhood have anything similar?

it would be worth the money to pay someone to draw up some renditions for you.

If you like the examples that Flo and Beth have posted, then I'd go forward with the idea that you could turn your modern house into a beautiful modern house. But if you don't like those examples, then you just don't like modern even if it's well done and you should pass on the house.

I know just how you feel! My husband and I bought a house that looked like a faux Tuscan Villa. I hated the outside but the location and price were perfect. I was embarrassed every time I pulled in the driveway. We needed a huge home to accommodate frequent visits from our 6 grown children and 10 grandchildren but more importantly, a beautiful in-law suite to care for his elderly parents. This monstrosity checked all those boxes and then some, including a pool and a theater. After remodeling some inside features to make it more ADA compliant, we finally painted the outside. Now I love my house!
I think your home, should you buy it, is stunning and with a change in paint color, you too, might fall in love.

I don't think it is ugly. In fact, I like it so well I could not resist painting it.

This house will look modern no matter what you do so I think you should keep looking.

I love this house.

This is brilliant Dig Doug

I like the house as it is except for some color changes.... but I don’t think she’ll be happy with it unless there are some major changes... as I said, look elsewhere.

If you like modern homes, this one is a nice one. Not fond of the small number of windows in this one -- adding windows, especially to the triangle above the garage doors. If you don't want to add windows to the front of the garage above the doors, emmareme's idea of painting the garage and its steep roof a darker color gray is an excellent idea.

Something else to consider: If you extended the roofline on the right side of the building, both forward and to the side toward the left beyond the front door in order to add a front porch, that would improve the curb appeal.

Something else to consider is changing the roofline over the left side of the garage by adding removing part of the roof

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and adding windows and roof there.

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A house down at the bottom of a hill isn't for everyone -- especially if you live where there is a lot of rain or ice/snow. My mom lived in one and there was no breeze "in the hole" in the heat of the summer, traffic noise was a problem and it was easier from people from passing vehicles to see in the large picture window in the living room. The view was not great, getting out in icy weather was nearly impossible and the floor of the carport was wet with even the slightest rain. The dirt around the home tended to stay damp as did the underside of the home, leading to mold problems -- luckily it was a rental non one my mom owned. Adding a layer of very thick plastic atop the ground beneath the floor helped keep some of the moisture out of the house so that after the mold was treated and painted, it didn't come back. Still, while she lived there she wished the builder had added a basement and lifted the house up to at least road level.

Suggest you keep looking a while longer and find your dream home.

Hey All— thanks for the input and ideas. I loved so many of them and could see how they could work for us. Unfortunately, we found some structural issues that will make it a no-go for us, but thanks to you I definitely saw more potential!!

What Dig Doug did with the design in gorgeous! Very creative and made a world of difference. I hated my house when we bought it, I remember driving by when we were under contract and crying in the car, that's how much I hated it. We still bought it due to the amazing location, we painted the outside, did new landscaping, shutters and I slowly started loving it and now I can't imaging living anywhere else!