Each person’s natural desire is to take care of their home. It is very important not only to maintain and maintain cleanliness inside the house, but also to take care of the exterior of the building. The design of the house from the outside says a lot: the character of the owners, the financial situation, indicates preferences in style.
If it was decided that the facade of the house needs updating or design development is necessary for a new building, an important point is the choice of finishing materials. However, the moment of determining the style is also important. However, most home owners are inclined to the classic options.
Unshakable classics - stylish facade exterior
The design of a private house outside in a classic design will never become mundane and banal. This style has always held and will occupy a leading position. The main feature of the design is the clarity of forms, strict adherence to proportions. Each element should be developed separately and be thoroughly thought out, while remembering the integrity of the picture.
Clear boundaries of the walls, a triangular roof, flat attic rooms - all this is a classic, to soften which it is customary to use smooth-structured finishing materials.
The house in the classical style is always proportional. Door and window openings are carried out according to clear standards developed for a particular building. Their shape in most cases has sharp corners (square or rectangle), less commonly practiced is the placement of round windows.
The classics are very malleable. Finishing facades in this style involves the use of any building materials: siding, wooden beams, bricks, tiles, plaster, stone and more.
Depending on the cladding, each house will have its own character and give residents the appropriate emotions.
Facade stucco - the magic of color and texture
The design of the house outside with the decoration of the walls by facade stucco is especially popular with modern property owners. The building materials market offers a wide range of colors and several types of material. Each of them has its own distinctive features.
Decorating the walls with silicone plaster, you can not only achieve the desired appearance of the facade, but also protect the insulation from the effects of harmful environmental factors: rain, snow, wind. Among the main advantages of use are the following:
- High level of breathability. This allows the building not to accumulate excess moisture in the walls, so the interior will always remain dry.
- Durability. Due to the ability to remove excess moisture, plastered surfaces will retain their original appearance for a long time, and the material will not crumble from the walls.
- Easy to clean. If the surface is dirty, it can easily be cleaned. To do this, it is enough to water the walls or wait for rainfall.
- Service life - more than 20 years.
- Resistance to salt and chemical elements.
A more expensive version of the facade plaster is silicate. The overestimated price indicator is due to the following characteristics:
- high level of resistance to physical stress and exposure to chemical materials;
- accumulates heat indoors and creates an additional level of noise absorption;
- well passes and displays pairs;
- resistance to moisture and temperature extremes.
If the building is made in the form of an art object, has a complex architecture, it is better to use acrylic plaster. It has a high level of plasticity and easily fills even hard-to-reach areas. Due to its resistance to moisture, it is ideal for decorating walls covered with expanded polystyrene, but it excessively absorbs dust, which is a disadvantage. Estimated service life - 20 years.
When it is necessary to carry out budget design of facades, you should pay attention to mineral plaster. It has a wide range of advantages, but it is much cheaper than competitors, due to the almost complete lack of plasticity. Service life - no more than 10 years, then the material may begin to crack.
Please note that no matter which plaster is chosen, all finishing work must be carried out exclusively in the conditions of established positive temperature.
Siding - simplicity and modernity of design
Fine finishing material for the decoration of country houses. The main advantage of siding is a high level of resistance to fire (it does not burn, but melts). Due to the high demand for the material, manufacturers began to produce not only plastic, but also vinyl, metal and wood.
By technical features, siding is not much different from plaster. It is also resistant to physical influences, expels moisture and accumulates heat indoors. The service life is impressive and is 50 years, despite the fact that installation can be performed without the participation of a team of craftsmen.
Natural materials have always been highly valued, so developing and implementing a wooden house design from the outside is not easy and not cheap. But do not give up the dream. A great alternative to wood is siding. It is made in various colors and a drawing is applied that repeats the cut of a tree.
Tiles - a European look at the decoration of facades
In progressive European countries, residential houses and office buildings are often tiled with tiles. The material is quite expensive, but it helps to realize any design idea. A competent choice of one of the four types of material will do its job, and the design of facades with tiles will help houses stand out among hundreds of typical buildings.
Clinker tiles are very similar to decorative stones. In its production uses a special technology of clay grinding at a temperature of more than 1300 degrees. It contains no salts, and the main material is shale paper.
Terracotta tiles are familiar to many and are very popular in the decoration of rural cottages. The main production material is kaolin clay, and it is baked at a temperature of 1000 degrees.
The budget option is concrete tile. Due to the low cost of raw materials (cement, quartz sand, additives), its cost does not exceed the average price range, and the choice of textures and colors is diverse.
And the last, but no less well-known type of material is porcelain tile. It contains a mixture of clay, quartz sand and various additives.
Brick - years-old finishing material
Houses made of brick or with facades made in brick decoration are the most durable, beautiful and resistant to harmful influences. Often this material is used for cladding facades of wooden buildings. Today it is considered one of the most expensive.
The design of the brick house on the outside has a truly royal look. Expensive, stylish and luxurious - these words are ideal for describing the exterior of the building.
Four steps to creating a facade project
If desired, anyone can independently develop a house design from the outside from any material. To make this easier to do, you can stick to the following algorithm:
- Creating a sketch on paper (what you want to get in the end).
- Creating a project (wall measurements, budgeting).
- Preparation for the implementation of the facing work (approval of the created project and the prepared estimate).
- Finishing work (the implementation of the sketch created in the first stage).
Before deciding on an independent development of the design of the facade, you should sensibly assess your capabilities.
In most cases, this work is best left to a team of professional designers and masters of decoration.
It is possible to develop and realize the design of a house on your own, but for the first project it is better that it be a small building, which even an amateur can cope with.