Skip to content

Exterior Design

Log in

Outside the walls

Exterior Design

This is the directory, not the exterior generator. Facade, roof, cladding, paint, the addition, the drive, and the fence are the building you can see. Landscape, garden, yard, patio, deck, pool, and planting are the ground. They do not share one form. The page that restyles the whole visible house is exterior design. Stay here only long enough to choose.

Directory

The house and the ground do not share a form

This page lists exterior tools. It is a directory, not the exterior generator. The first group is the building you can see: the whole exterior, the front elevation, the roof, the cladding, the paint, an addition, the drive, and the fence. The second group is the ground: landscape, garden, yard, backyard, patio, deck, pool, and planting.

Those groups fail when they borrow each other’s job. A siding page changes the skin and leaves the openings. A roof page tries a roof on the house already in the photograph. A landscape page draws paths and levels around a footprint that stays. A garden page is beds and a place to stay, under trees that do not move. If you open the wrong card, the result will look finished and still be the wrong drawing.

The tool named AI exterior design is the full visible house, from the street or the garden. Use this directory when you are not sure whether the question is the wall, the roof, or the lot. Use that tool when you already know the subject is the whole house and the massing should survive.

Read the page from four sides

  • The house

    Massing, openings, roof, and the approach from the street. Planting beds are not the brief on these cards.

  • The ground

    Paths, grade, beds, paving, water, and what can be planted. The facade is background unless the card says otherwise.

  • One material

    Paint, siding, and roof are single-subject pages. They are faster to judge because almost everything else is locked.

  • An addition

    An added volume has to meet the house that is already standing. It is not a second facade with the original deleted.

Where this page stops

The links below are the neighboring jobs. Each one keeps a promise this page does not make.