Front entrance make over. Please help!!!

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  1. wylie

    wylie Moderator Staff Member

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    I've got the shakes after looking at that photo. :p

    Is this PPOR? Or IP? Either way, I'd want to remove the arches and render the brick as well as cover the tiles. That's such an assault on the senses.

    My mother-in-law's house is similar but she's also got Spanish tiles on the brick facade they added to a Queenslander 40 years ago (you can still see the top of the roof behind the Spanish style facade), the concrete car tracks are painted green to match the grass and the white painted concrete lion watches over it all. :eek:
     
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  2. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    I'm thinking your place would look nice with a render applied. Arches usually date properties too.
     
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    Snap!
     
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  4. Angel

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    No, you need to paint over everything. Now.
     
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  5. The lucky duck

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    One day we thought to paint it charcoal and leave the terracotta.

    I really like it. I’d never get rid of the arches but maybe I’m an elderly Italian woman from a past life
     

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  6. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    The arches are hiding whatever your house actually looks like :(
     
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    In real life they are lovely. Bricks not so much!
     
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    As a proud dag with cluster bogan traits I reckon it’s magnificent!
     
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  9. wylie

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    I hope I didn't offend with my comments. The arches block so much light from those front windows.

    If you love the arches, but not the brick pattern, then I'd tone down that down with paint or render. Problem is you then give yourself something to repaint occasionally, which you don't have with bricks. Maybe tinted render that doesn't need painting?

    If you like the patterned effect of these bricks, then definitely change the patio tiles because together, they are too busy.
     
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  10. The lucky duck

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    Not at all! The house is only the hallway and the bedrooms wide. Lot of light from the back hall way. Bedrooms in the arch’s
     
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    I like this - it’s a bold statement. I’m not sure about the balustrade in between the arches though. But that might just be the photo?

    Remember, just a few decades ago people were bull dozing the type of historic architecture we treasure these days..because it was considered ‘old fashioned’.
     
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