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Help to class up curb appeal.

28 days ago

Long Four car garage, white doors and shutters. What do you think of adding another color to pillars or corbels by the porch entry by the front door? Front door is black. Shutters?
Thanks for your input,
Dawn Darge

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  • PRO
    28 days ago

    Sending out to all my Houzz friend to help your dilemma!

  • PRO
    28 days ago

    Is your roof light gray?

  • 28 days ago

    Medium to light gray

  • 28 days ago

    For starters - you need to marry the brick to the 2 garage doors that appear to have siding.

  • 28 days ago

    I never thought of that. We purchased the house 8 years ago. It was built in the 70s. The original owners raced Formula cars and added on the last double garage, it is actually a four car double deep garage. I always thought it looked like a garage with a house attached. We added the Four Season sunroom to the left of the picture to help balance it out. I appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.

  • 28 days ago

    I'd paint the garage doors a shade similar to the brick or a medium brown. I'd probably paint the shutters the same color. Since it looks like a good bit of your yard is gravel driveway, I might put in grass growing through bricks, to add more lawn to give you more lawn-ish area.



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  • 28 days ago

    Here is the side of the house with the sunroom.

  • 28 days ago

    For me, things that enhance curb appeal are paved driveways and more stylish garage doors, specially when they take up a large percentage of your front facade.

  • PRO
    28 days ago

    Your sun porch addition is lovely…I would bulk up your porch posts…add larger exterior light fixtures…are you wanting it to look ire modern or keep it traditional?

  • 28 days ago

    I like modern if it works

  • 28 days ago
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    It looks like your house has a very long private gravel driveway before the turn into the garage area. The biggest change could come from professional landscaping that takes the view as you drive in along the gravel road as the prime sight line. In other words, spiff up the approach to the house.

  • 28 days ago

    Tell me more, that sounds like a good idea.

  • 28 days ago

    adding another color into the mix is just adding to the contrasts.

    I would paint all the white, trims(s) and doors, the same color as the siding, or paint it all out to a color in the bricks. That way all your black accents will have purpose.

  • PRO
    28 days ago

    for a more modern clean look..remove the shutters…paint upper siding charcoal gray…gragage doors same gray as upper siding..keep white trim…bulk up posts…black front door and black exterior fixtures.

  • 28 days ago

    This pic with the garage door open is very instructive. While I'm not suggesting you make the doors a black hole, you can see how a darker color blends into the house, which is what you want. The white is a big popping advertisement that says - GARAGE DOORS HERE AND LOTS OF THEM! Try matching the doors to your brick color.




    I get that you want modern, but your lovely sunroom has more of a scaled back traditional look about it. I'd think you want a cohesive look here.

  • PRO
    28 days ago

    I'd select more interesting garage doors since it looks like a garage with a house attached to it.








  • PRO
    28 days ago

    I suggest you paint all garage doors the same colour as the siding,they would look less prominent.



  • PRO
    28 days ago
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    VERY ROUGH MOCK UP……but might give you an idea of what it might look like…would not do black but more of a charcoal gray….front door black exterior lighting black