Exterior Design Trends | Architectural Design

recognize that I am an interior designer, but I really do appreciate a great exterior. And you know what? We need to talk about some really amazing exterior home design trends. So today's video, we're going over the outside of your house. But there's lots of videos on the inside. All right. So the first one that I want to talk about, and it's actually one that my girlfriend and I were just having this conversation about as she's currently trying to decide how to renovate the exterior of their home. And that is this gorgeous white on white aesthetic. So what I love about this is it's a classic look. It will probably last the test of time because it's white and I feel like white never really goes in style. But we definitely had a black and white moment where we saw a lot of the black frames with the white houses. Well, this is all white, plus obviously like a darker roof. I love it with a beautiful steel roof. And what's gorgeous about this look is that it really doesn't matter on the materials, whether it's brick or stucco or siding, it will still give a really beautiful presence. And one of the elements that I like too is adding just a touch of light wood, say to a porch area, if you have it, to really just, you know, add that extra little oomph to this look. Now, one thing to note when I was looking up some of these styles for exterior trends is that really, really pure white color, like that snow white, I almost find that has like a bit of a bluey tinge undertone to it. That one's not so much on trend as more of a warmer white. So a good color to think about if you are wanting to say paint an exterior of a house is to think about Benjamin Moore's Sea Pearl. That's a great exterior color for a white house. I'm really excited to let you guys know that I am taking on clients across North America. I have been trialing this here in Canada. I've been working with clients all over and we have come up with a system that works for remote design. My primary businesses that I do work with tend to be, you know, business owners, large corporations, small corporations too, municipalities, school boards, and medical. So I do tend to work on the physiotherapy side, primarily in the medical area, but I mean, a clinic's a clinic and we can expand our horizons, I'm sure. What's really exciting is that spatialization and optimization is a really big conversation that a lot of my clients are having. We are finding that in this new working style that there is a need to rejig the office and redefine what it looks like. That's where my team come in. We can help you take your space and make it the best, most functioning space for you and your team. What I love is that I have partners across the United States and Canada from a vendor's perspective. So let's say we are doing a space planning, but you also wanna buy furniture. I work with vendors all across the country. Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, New York, and Florida are some of the key ones that I work with, but I do have many other vendors, even vendors up here that can make sure that product gets pretty much anywhere if that's something that you need to look for as well. I also work with a lot of commercial real estate agents helping their clients visualize what a potential space could look like. So just a straight space planning, potentially some 3D renderings to really help give them a visual of what the space can be achieved for them. So I'm really looking to expand my portfolio and bring on new clients and expand the reach of where I'm doing design projects, which is really exciting. I'm gonna leave all the information for you guys linked below. I have my website there. You can check out some of the projects we've been working on as well as a contact email so that you can reach out to me and we can set up an initial meeting and hopefully we can work together on some great projects. Another great trend with our homes is doing a really beautiful and standout exterior door. So your front door should be a showstopper. So we really wanna think about your exterior door as being a focal point to your home. So think about something like a brighter, interesting color, maybe adding some geometric designs or custom glass, just adding a pop of interest to the home's exterior and really drawing that attention to the front of your home. Glass, all the glass. We are obsessed with windows these days. And if you are doing a new home build, that is something that is really, really popular right now is basically more glass, better views. There's this real sense of creating this feeling of inside and outside collaborating together and more windows really do help with that aesthetic. However, it's also a really modern look and I feel like a lot of the popular home styles are a little bit more modern in their take and creating a home with more windows and more straight edges will really help give it a more modern feeling to the space and really just open up the home to the outside. And listen, I know I've heard before when I've talked about windows that people go into how they're not energy efficient and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's not what this video is about. This is just a nice, beautiful design, aesthetic exterior what's on trend, okay? Okay, I have lots of windows and I like them. So, you know, whatever. And my bills are not high. Okay. Another trend we're seeing on our home exteriors are mixing different mediums together. It's really going away with this look from that cookie cutter effect that we're kind of gotten used to seeing. Of course, this is more with a custom home. So when we're thinking about how to mix our elements together, we can think about mixing, you know, warm and natural wood looking elements with sleek finishes to really achieve more of a unique aesthetic to the space. You know, think about switching up the panel sizes and, you know, really varying the colors and the shapes to try and emphasize that unique shape and design and really draw the eye in to your favorite elements of the structure. So something else that we're seeing is exteriors that will really perform well over the longterm. I feel like if you're doing a custom home or you're upgrading an existing home, really thinking about the materials that you use and picking materials that are, you know, built to last will be a real top of mind for many people. So we wanna think about incorporating items that are not only aesthetically beautiful, but really do have that longevity factor and that low maintenance, you know, factor as well. If you're gonna pay for it and you're gonna pay top dollar, you don't wanna have to redo it again. So, or at least you hope you don't have to for a long time. Something that I've seen more, there's kind of an area not far from me where there's a few different custom homes being built and I have noticed this as a trend and that's these interesting overhangs. So instead of your traditional porch, they've actually just kind of extended the roof line over almost like a porch, but not really a porch. I don't know, it's an overhang. I would say this is more for a modern aesthetic where you don't want necessarily a traditional porch look, but you still want the protection of a porch to maybe sit on and enjoy, you know, a part of your home. But it definitely has more of a modern feel and I think it's a really beautiful aesthetic, especially in my mind with that white home, white with like a black roof and then you have the overhang and like kind of modern. Honestly, I think modern farmhouse personally, but it could be with many different modern aesthetics. Okay, we started off with the all white home and I'm gonna finish off with the all black home. Now this one, I love. I have seen many A-frames done in all black with like a beautiful wood detail. Oh my gosh, I love it, I love it, I love it. I think it's absolutely stunning. I would say out of all the ones that I've showed you, this one is my favorite. I love the black on black. I think it just, it stands out. There's no way for it not to stand out, especially the juxtaposition. I think if you have some natural forestry or lots of, you know, natural elements around you, I think it will really stand out. But even if you're in like the middle of suburbia, if your house was all black, it's gonna stand out. It just is, cause it's all black. So anyways, I love a black house. I think it looks great. So although I usually do interiors, I hope you guys enjoy these exterior elements that we took a look at. Just kind of wanted to touch on them a little bit and see what your thoughts are on these. And if you want me to do more kind of architectural details, cause I could do more. If you enjoyed this video, jump on over and check my moody interiors video next. I think you'll really enjoy it, especially if you're like me and you liked that, you know, black exterior house the best. All right, until next time, bye.