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7 months ago

Building a new home and looking for design advice. i like the farmhouse look and thinking a limestone wainscoat around the entire house (might exclude the garage) with vertical sidding above. If we do a wainscoat should i skip limestone on the bottoms of the pillars?

Also thinking black metal on the shed rook and blck shingles on the main roof. Thinking black windows and black door. What color for the garage doors? Im worries about going to wiite because of our Oklahoma res dirt but i dont want brown or yellowish tan. Thank you!

Comments (16)

  • PRO
    7 months ago

    If you are building a traditional style house like this is use your stone veneer where stone would be on a real house- ie the foundation and column bases. No house built of actual stone has stone ending at windowsill level. That’s a modern look that started in the 60s when masonry veneers became the norm.

    Megan Weeks thanked HALLETT & Co.
  • 7 months ago

    I'd use 4 pillars, a single door of the same width, stone only on the very bottom all around the house and metal for the entire roof.

    Megan Weeks thanked dan1888
  • PRO
    7 months ago
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    Could you post the other 3 elevations?

    What's on the 2nd floor?

    Changes to columns and windows.

    Ask your drafter for some perspectives and color images. They are quick and easy with the software they are using. And for some elevations without black glass as this changes the look.


    Single door.




    This one drops the ceiling heights in the center section down.


    Megan Weeks thanked PPF.
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  • 7 months ago

    We moved the garage to the side of the house so these elevations arent accurate.


    My contractor drew up the plans from a house i found online. he is very experienced but isn’t very high tech. im not sure i could get more pics

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  • 7 months ago

    The garage was originally on the back and it was more of a car port, detached

  • PRO
    7 months ago

    "he is very experienced"

    Not all experience is good.


  • 7 months ago

    Diana, when you say two types of siding, do you mean the wainscot and the vertical siding?

  • 7 months ago

    dan1988, why a single door? Also, when you say stone only on the bottom, do you mean skip the wainscot and stone the whole house?

  • PRO
    7 months ago

    Yes, I mean the limestone and the vertical siding. For a farmhouse look in the style you are showing, I'd ditch the limestone. Vertical or horizontal siding would be more in keeping with your style.

    And I'll also weigh in on the double doors. Use one nicely sized door, perhaps with sidelights. We made that mistake years ago when we first built our vacation home. The second door was NEVER opened. And yours look much narrower than ours were. So you will need to open both of them to enter the house. Why would you want to do that when you could keep it simple and use one door? When we renovated the house, we replaced the double doors with one 36" door and sidelights. MUCH better looking and it functions better too.


    We have the same set-up in our primary residence:


    Megan Weeks thanked Diana Bier Interiors, LLC
  • 7 months ago

    "My contractor drew up the plans from a house i found online."


    For one of your largest investments in your life you own it to yourself to use someone with design talent, and not a contractor ripping off an online plan.


    " dan1988, why a single door? "


    Double doors are inherent leakers of air and water, maybe not brand new but shortly thereafter. Plus they waste wall space on the interior. Use a single door with two sidelites, if needed use a 42" wide door with the sidelite's.


    " Also, when you say stone only on the bottom "


    Foundation only like it was intentional foundation covering and not lick and stick.

  • PRO
    7 months ago

    "lick and stick"

    I used that term on construction drawings once and everyone knew what I meant.

  • 7 months ago

    Your house calls out for simple siding and a low brick foundation. Simple, intentional, not trying to be anything that it's not.


    Landscaping and ground cover, mulch, pea gravel around the base of the house whould be used to manage red clay staining. (and by the way, cultured stone stains too and it's WAY harder to mitigate than a coat of paint)


    Your house is lovely and leaning into the classic simplicity will serve you well for years to come.