For years, North American’s have been accustomed to very bland and lackluster exterior options for the typical single family home. Everyone remembers as a kid, the dis-coloring, off-white, vinyl siding that covered their childhood home and that would indent the instant you’d put a hand to it; or the textured, one color stucco, or the very bold red brick facades. Now, these trends and materials have evolved somewhat over the last 10-20 years, with color pallets and design trends changing, but how much thought and attention was ever really put into the homes exterior? Options for materials and, quite frankly, imaginations were fairly limited as to what to do with a home’s exterior. I remember a time in my neighborhood growing up where pink and lime green stucco was a thing! That was perhaps the only way designers could think of “spicing” up the homes exterior to give it some standout curb appeal.
Luckily, through both material and design evolution and innovation, the concept of curb appeal and vision for how to make a home’s exterior stand out, has taken a drastic turn for the better in recent years. Designers and architects have innovatively adopted the thought and vision of mixing different materials on the building’s exterior to achieve a truly unique and contemporary look. A new age of bold and accentuated exterior curb appeal has been born, transforming bland a lack luster exteriors into timeless and abstract works of art using mixes of materials such as stucco, vinyl siding, cement fiber plank and panel, aluminum siding and wood siding.
