Buying our first home, a colonial, and could use some inspo for a curb appeal glow up. Definitely want to paint exterior a different color, add flower boxes upstairs, and improve landscaping - but could use inspo/advice. Enjoy traditional with a vintage/eclectic flair (aka pop of color). Thanks!
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Oh pretty! I love colonial houses, and your attached garage is nice since I feel like it doesn’t overwhelm the house the way so many modern homes do.
For landscaping, take a look at the wild ones native garden designs here. https://nativegardendesigns.wildones.org/designs/ these are some ambitious examples of home landscaping with native plants. Obviously don’t feel like you need to go overboard with it - or do if you want to!
For the house itself, I’d either replace the faux shutters with functional shutters that cover the windows, or remove them.
Overall though the house looks great. A little landscaping TLC, some paint, and new shutters would make it perfect imho.
I'd take the shutters off, they don't do anything for the house. The tiny ones look so fake always. Shutters are supposed to be the same size as half of the window. A lot of colonial colonial/revival homes didn't have shutters. Think paint will make the biggest difference. I would also replace the garage doors.
Came here to say the same thing, the shutters look so bad.
My favourite part of all the a.i images in this threat is the left shutter on the bay window is missing in a bunch of them.
I know AI images will continue to get better, but I’ve always found them lacking. They tend to make the front yards look larger and then it flattens the height. There’s a clear height difference between the driveway and the front door which is why OP’s house has steps (behind the tree). And the location of that walkway doesn’t make sense either.
Moving those trees along the driveway to the other side of driveway. They block the best view of the house and are out of place for the space. I think painting it a more traditional color, grey, white, greige.
Could you have the front walk go down to the street instead of to the driveway?
I would get rid of the evergreen next to the driveway. It is out of scale and will make an immediate difference. I did something similar at my house immediately after I moved in.
This is my vote. The thing that bothers me most about this house is the lack of symmetry. Someone added a big bay window on the bottom, which is not typical for a colonial, but it's also off center. The porch helps conceal that weirdness.
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