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Weird exterior window

3 years ago

Love the inside of the house but the exterior window on the left-yikes! Any ideas to add to the curb appeal? Thank you!


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  • 3 years ago

    Are you talking about the window on the far right? I mean, if the inside is right, then just balance the outside with landscaping -- a tree in the center of the yard, or some vines growing up that wall, or whatever. And then a brightly colored front door to draw the eye to the entry.


    Remember, that "curb appeal" is a realtor term for getting people to come look. It's not whether you can love living there or not!

    esmith6040 thanked acm
  • 3 years ago

    Thank you!


  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    Paint the house a deep rich neutral and add wood cladding as an accent the length of the window wall and width of the window. The slats could also be spaced apart as in a trellis.






    Or don't paint the house just add the cladding.



    This render the cladding is more in scale, sized to the window as opposed to the frame. Maybe adjust the heavy lower edge.


    As open slats:


    esmith6040 thanked tracefloyd
  • 3 years ago

    I think there is a lot you can do with landscaping to distract the eye from the oddly placed window. I think the current house color actually does a good job of not making it too, too weird. If you like this house otherwise, I don't think the window should be a dealbreaker.

    esmith6040 thanked Kendrah
  • 3 years ago

    I think it looks ok . If you want to change it just make it a one panel window …( that , if you need to open it could be open in the different ways that one panel windows open . I would make it a black window with dark tinted glass , and landscape a bit .it has a modern look your house and I would emphasize it by changing it to a one panel window . You don’t have to change the entire house to make a window look good . Just change the old fashion window to a modern window .

  • 3 years ago

    A flowering tree!

    esmith6040 thanked Rachel Lee
  • 3 years ago

    What is the inside of the room on the right like? Is adding another window an option? If not use some high-low landscaping to balance it out and bring color to the front door area.

    esmith6040 thanked Sibylle
  • 3 years ago

    The inside of the room is a small bedroom or office. I thought about adding another window but since this one not centered I was stumped. Thank you!

  • PRO
    3 years ago

    I need to see the layout of the house inside. IMO that is ahuge wall with no window so what is behind the blank space .

    esmith6040 thanked Patricia Colwell Consulting
  • 3 years ago

    Offset windows and blank facade areas were hallmarks of contemporary houses, since the 1960s or 70s and although this house is newer, as a single window balancing an entire garage door on the opposite site, it works better than a single window in the middle, which looks kind of banal:


    esmith6040 thanked palimpsest
  • 3 years ago

    Thank you!


  • 3 years ago

    interior...


  • 3 years ago

    Thank you!!!!! Love this!



  • 3 years ago

    As long as you will be doing construction anyway with another window, go ahead and punch out the adjoinging wall.




    esmith6040 thanked tracefloyd
  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    whoa that living room neeeeds more windows!

    esmith6040 thanked hbeing
  • PRO
    3 years ago

    This could work.


    esmith6040 thanked BeverlyFLADeziner
  • PRO
    3 years ago

    Add a window on that huge wall in a space with practiacally no light .

    esmith6040 thanked Patricia Colwell Consulting
  • 3 years ago

    Not a living room: "small bedroom or office." If used as an office, it might be ok as is....

  • 3 years ago

    Before adding a bunch of windows, consider furniture arrangment. You don't want to add windows in the "right" spot, only to realize the the same spot is the right spot for a desk or a bed or something which will then cover part of the window.

    So many new houses I see have large windows with low sills and then most people put furniture overlapping them, (often because everything is centered now, and not really in the best place for function).