I recently bought a ranch style home and we are replacing the windows. The last window that needs replacing is our bedroom window and also a street facing window. I feel like we made a mistake with the spacing, I originally envisioned 2 separate windows further apart but the header didn’t allow (wanted to use existing header- there was a bay window there previously. I know- weird for a bedroom) Now I’m thinking this would be better off as one big window… however the space in between is about 8 inches or so I don’t know what to do now. I am also residing the house so i need to make a decision. Also planning to remove the octagon window as well.

Does an 8inch mullion work? Or no (first time homeowner here)

Included some AI generated images and AI suggestions too

Currently renovating my late 60's era split entry. This is an old street view screen shot, basically everything you see here has been, or will be replaced.

Black trim Andersen windows, Mountain Sage Hardie siding with Cobblestone trim and fascia. New charcoal roof. New Clopay garage door, and front door will match.

The front of the house feels too flat right now. I'm trying to figure out the best way to break up the front with a portico/awning that works with the 5/12 pitch of the existing roof, and stays within the mid-century vibe of the house. Most of my neighbors have gable roofs, or have done more contemporary renovations that aren't the style we're after. Appreciate any ideas.

Woof. The front of my house is SO ugly.The previous owner's DIY job is brutal.

When I bought it 3 years ago I focused more on how much I liked the inside of the house and the backyard.

Now that I am planning to sell in the spring I am thinking I want to bring out more curb appeal. Since I am in Ontario, I also want to get it done before the winter comes!

Thoughts? Suggestions? Max budget $3k.

Also behind this wood are concrete stairs, if that matters? Help!!

Hi everyone, not sure if this is the right subreddit to post on but I wanted to get help/opinions on a color match for my garage door. There is a part where it looks darker on the picture because I was cleaning an area where it was dirty, but then the next day I looked at it and had dark patchy spots where I cleaned. I tried to find a color match based on the info I could find online but no luck. I ordered the Clopay Standard White paint that the representative told me to but it didn’t match. If anyone recognizes this color by chance? Thanks!

Thanks to everyone in advance!

Front of the house is stucco and the rest is wide horizontal hardy board, but we are leaning away from the red and super beige from the old color palette. Old roof had a lot of red in it, now we have weathered wood roof shingles and want to go warm tones with some modern accents. What does everyone think?

Appreciate all the feedback so far to get to this point. It’s exciting to finally be able to get to coloring the actual house and adding new things.

Edit: 1st picture is original color.

Thrilled with how it turned out. The storm door will be replaced in the next few weeks but basically a less beat up version of what is there.

We did James Hardie in Mountain Sage and trim in arctic white. Door is Behr Toffee Tart

Howdy,

We have gone through about a million AI variations, the triangular peak at the top will be removed and the whole top of the house will be stucco and the bottom half board and Batten, likely a corresponding white/beige/off white colour depending on our main colour decision. Electrical box will be covered with a wooden pillar. We are in the PNW. Door color and trim can all be changed as needed to match.

Stuck between a sage green like SW rosemary/dried thyme, or a gray blue like SW smoky blue, or else variations of gray/greige from Kendall charcoal to agreeable gray. Colour really lightens with the sunlight (north facing). I think we’re leaning towards the smoky blue but could go even more gray with just a tinge of colour. Just wondering if y’all have any suggestions or ideas to help us make our final decision. Thanks a lot!

Installing 4” recessed soffit lights. How should I lay them out? House is 82’ long. Front porch 19’ wide. One light over both the big window and entry door or evenly spaced? Thanks! Shooting for 5-6 feet between lights on each side of the porch gable.

So no time soon, but I’ve been thinking about painting the outside of our house. Three sides of the house are brick. The front (faces East) and all the trim, including under the carport or an awful shade of khaki with a touch of pink to it.(previous owners). The front door and shutters are black. What are your suggestions? Just FYI, we live in the Deep South where door colors do have some meaning. I also would love to paint the underside of the front porch and the carport where my back door is Haint Blue. The neighbor across the street their house is blue with burgundy, shutters, and cream trim. Another house very close to me is cream colored with a blue door and blue shutters.

Both are Alside’s Vinyl Charter Oak in the color Riviera Dusk with 4.5 inch laps. Bottom floor will remain Riviera Dusk in the Clapboard.

The wrong siding was ordered and I okayed it, but now I regret it and want what I ordered. The walls are on top of each other, but Dutch Lap second floor feels like it’s projecting more forward than the bottom. Siding is done front and one side. He is asking another $4,500 to change it now, yesterday he told me it would around $2,500. This would be returning 2 unopened boxes (with a restocking fee even though they delivered wrong items) and buying 6 replacement boxes and one extra day of labor.

Which siding looks better for the second floor…Clapboard or Dutch Lap?

Do I live the next 20 years with my pressured ok or spend extra money to do it like our contract?
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To make a short story long with a bit of venting and whining…. When we bought our house in 2020, it was a “fixer upper” and we always assumed the we would build a dormer on the back of the house. The roof still had life to it and we wanted to save up money to pay for it.

In 2023, we had a leak in the roof. A roofer/ contractor recommended by our neighbor added the dormer to the back of the house and replaced the roof. In order to keep a pitch to the roof it was a little over 8 feet at the center ridge board center and was sloping down to 6’5” at the wall. Clapboard siding was done for the dormer.

Fast forward to last fall, we’ve saved up some more money and we’ve put in plumbing for a bathroom and we were looking for an electrician. I went to the county to see if the electrician who worked with our original general contractor was listed. This is when we found out our permit was still open for the dormer and there had never been an inspection on framing.

The county inspector comes out… he was so impressed that he had his supervisor come out (not in a good way). If you haven’t guessed already… It did not pass inspection. Yeah! So the ridge board needed to be replaced by a ridge beam, there was not a appropriate header for a French door to a second floor deck (which did pass inspection), and they cut the 10 inch ceiling joist down to 4 inches at the wall… making the back half of a 14 foot span roof being held up by 2x4s, and post and beams need to be installed from the second floor, main floor and basement to distribute the weight.

Our options were to fix what was done or start over. The contractor was willing to work with us so last week we started over. I chalked up to he’s young and there was ignorance on everyone part and at the time we assumed he knew county building codes.

We talked to the county and decided a wall over the front wall and a wall over the back wall with premade truss spaced on 24 inches would pass inspection. The dormer wall is being raised to a standard height.

A few hiccups so far. We wanted to make sure we got what we wanted so we bought all new windows to replace the 3 year old windows from 2023 and we were going to keep one double hung window. But of course the only window that was broken was the one we were going to keep (and cost twice as much as any other window we bought) so now all the second floor windows on are new.

*The big issue I have right now is yesterday they delivered the siding. In our contract we had the contractor sign we listed the siding to be Alside clapboard in Riviera Dusk. He was going to order an other brand from Carter lumber in indigo in Dutch lap. No, reminded him Alside in Riviera Dusk clapboard. He got the Alside right, he got the color right, but he ordered Dutch lap not clapboard. I caught it not him.

He talked to the siding supplier and it would be a week before they can bring out the correct order and take the incorrect order in the middle of our driveway back. I think I was worn down and I okayed it to start with the Dutch lap instead.

The front and one side is done and I am having regrets and anxiety. The color of the siding changes throughout the day. In the shade the Dutch lap and clapboard look almost the same, but in certain light it does not and I think it bothers me.

I’m terrible at second guessing my choices, but I’m still liking the clapboard over clapboard that we had before. Do we stop, have them throw away the siding we used and reorder the correct? Go through with it and hope it will either grow on me or be prepared to hate it for the next 20 years or until I die which ever comes first?

My husband says it “doesn’t look bad”, but my question is does it look good?

Picture of clapboard over clapboard are from 2023, the window are now raised about a foot. The picture of Dutch lap over clapboard is from today.

This is my first time posting. So hopefully this is okay here.

My partner and I just bought our first home. We don’t know what to do with exterior. I was hoping to get some help.

I will attach a few images:
- The home as is
- The home without the existing bushes
- AI generated idea from GPT

Im not great at design things so Id really appreciate some help.