Exterior makeover

[Gatoblanco]

This is a photo of my house.Before it had brick arches and it was pretty dated looking
I am trying to make it more aesthetic from the outside I have had the arches removed and the roof painted the next step is to render and then paint the walls and garage door a light coloured. I will also paint the guttering and soffit and the brown Window frames. I will replace that brown timber gate with a powder coated aluminium one and to the right of the house I will put in approx 2.5m long fence and gate to the boundary 1.8m high also powder coated aluminium slats and the same colour as the house to make it look a bit wider.
I will also replace the letterbox with something else not sure what.
Do you have any advice about what else I might need to do or is there anything I haven't considered prior to spending the money on rendering?
thank you for your assistance

 

[bob shovel]

Looks great getting rid of the arches!

Are you just rendering the front face walls? Doing that will save heaps, and just paint the rest of the brickwork the same colour with out render.

Rendering will make a huge difference!

 

[Xenia IM]

Anything to the garden?
I agree rendering will make a big difference

 

[Biz]

The good ole Pizza Hut roof lol.

 

[Gatoblanco]

I'm rendering the lot is only $4k for the whole place and I need to do the side behind that brick wall as that is visible from the street and is kind of the entertainment area. As for the garden I don't have a clue where to start. Will get rid of the mango tree on the front boundary garden bed. Was going to fence eventually but after I have converted the garage and put a carport. And retained to the right of the driveway. That is a phase 2 job as earthworks concreting etc required plus $ for garage conversion.

 

[neeko]

ahh why did you get rid of the brick sils??? thats stupid

 

[Gatoblanco]

ahh why did you get rid of the brick sils??? thats stupid

I did that on recommendations from a number of different people over the years who said when i render I should remove the brick sills first. They seem to be convinced it looks much more modern. I agree that perhaps I may have lost something there but there's nothing i can do about it now so i would suggest that is not helpful you saying it looks stupid. Clearly I put this up here so that people could offer suggestions about things to do next. Not criticism.

 

[Xenia IM]

Gato - any progress pictures?

Has rendering been done?

 

[Gatoblanco]

Gato - any progress pictures?

Has rendering been done?

Not yet but in a few weeks. Progress to date is squaring it up and roof painted

 

[neeko]

Well the point of sills is for water run off. So now I hope you don't have damaged window sashes in the future...

 

[bob shovel]

by the looks of the photos the sills have NOT been removed, just the over hang trimmed back. They will not retain water. I did the same at my place, and it does look a lot better and still functions

 

[Gatoblanco]

by the looks of the photos the sills have NOT been removed, just the over hang trimmed back. They will not retain water. I did the same at my place, and it does look a lot better and still functions

Yes just the hangover. Below the window still angles down. Worst case scenario water drips down the wall although if train is pelting enough to hit the windows then the walls are going to be wet anyway

 

[Gatoblanco]

Anyone got any ideas how to make the place less boring? There's not much style to the house. Will look quite plain when rendered.

 

[WattleIdo]

suggestion only: you could just paint the bricks instead of rendering (?).

Keeping in mind that the house was built in the days of minimalism, you could just accept the dear little thing as is. Put in some cacti and other succulents ? A sleeping Mexican and a donkey for the garden??

 

[fernfurn]

I would spray paint (or get a new)the garage door cream. The brown is making it disappear and making the house look smaller. A Cream/biscuit colour to match the bricks will make the whole house look much bigger

 

[Gatoblanco]

Yes the garage door will be painted the same color as the render

 

[Gatoblanco]

progress pic

First coat of render. Not yet finished.

 

[WattleIdo]

Wow - that really works!

How about the windows?

 

[Nattl3s]

Looks great, a lot more modern!

 

[Gatoblanco]

Wow - that really works!

How about the windows?

Windows will be painted white. Guttering 'monument'. Walls 'dieskau'
Those are some options I'm looking at anyway.