Architecture
It's Time to Address Your House Number
Make your house easy to find with numbers that are certain to stand up and be counted
It’s been one of those days and you’re already running late when you screech around the corner in your car and frantically look for the street address you’re supposed to be at. Annoyingly, few house numbers are visible, and even your GPS can’t seem to help you out. Several U-turns later, you finally knock cautiously at a front door and hope you’ve come to the right place. Sound familiar? So why not do your guests a favour and take the frustration out of them finding your house? It’s easy to place a clear street number that shows off your home, and your sense of style, as we show here.
Here’s another great use of lettering, but with a digit, too, to make the number 63.
Mosaic House Numbers on Slate
2. Design it yourself
If you’re yearning to give your creative side wings, a mosaic house number could be just the thing to add extra personality to your home. Use colour and design to make a masterpiece, or make it a family project with all hands on deck.
If you’re yearning to give your creative side wings, a mosaic house number could be just the thing to add extra personality to your home. Use colour and design to make a masterpiece, or make it a family project with all hands on deck.
3. Add it to your front door
This approach is just as effective in providing privacy as it is in letting visitors know they’ve come to the right address.
This approach is just as effective in providing privacy as it is in letting visitors know they’ve come to the right address.
4. Light it up from above
Finding this house would be a cinch – day or night.
Finding this house would be a cinch – day or night.
5. Cover all angles
So thoughtful! A design like this makes it easy for everyone to find you, no matter which way they’re coming from.
So thoughtful! A design like this makes it easy for everyone to find you, no matter which way they’re coming from.
6. Include your street name
This stylish typography goes one step further in spelling out where you live.
This stylish typography goes one step further in spelling out where you live.
7. Illuminate it from below
Garden and entrance path lighting can also serve to highlight your address. The in-ground lighting outside this front gate continues down the path to lead guests straight to the front door. The only thing worse than not being able to find an address is stumbling around in the dark trying to navigate stairs, gate latches and uneven pathways on your way to the door.
Garden and entrance path lighting can also serve to highlight your address. The in-ground lighting outside this front gate continues down the path to lead guests straight to the front door. The only thing worse than not being able to find an address is stumbling around in the dark trying to navigate stairs, gate latches and uneven pathways on your way to the door.
8. Set it in stone
This modern approach is not only clear as day (and night, with the help of the outdoor light), it’s also indestructible.
This modern approach is not only clear as day (and night, with the help of the outdoor light), it’s also indestructible.
9. Make your house number stand out – literally
A number set out from a surface creates a drop shadow that stands out and, again, these considerate homeowners have incorporated a night light.
A number set out from a surface creates a drop shadow that stands out and, again, these considerate homeowners have incorporated a night light.
10. Let the numbers do the talking
A step beyond lighting your house number from above or below, this enlightened approach makes an address as clear as can be.
A step beyond lighting your house number from above or below, this enlightened approach makes an address as clear as can be.
11. Double the chances
Painting your house number on the front door and putting it on the letterbox is an easy update anyone can do to remove any doubt from visitors’ minds when they come a-knockin’.
Painting your house number on the front door and putting it on the letterbox is an easy update anyone can do to remove any doubt from visitors’ minds when they come a-knockin’.
12. Make it a work of art
This is one way to make an entrance. The sculptural corten rusted steel letterbox here not only looks amazing, it also creates a handy surface on which to spell out your address.
This is one way to make an entrance. The sculptural corten rusted steel letterbox here not only looks amazing, it also creates a handy surface on which to spell out your address.
13. Put it on the house
I love this different approach to displaying a house number, but maybe it’s the fabulous yellow door that’s really winning me over.
I love this different approach to displaying a house number, but maybe it’s the fabulous yellow door that’s really winning me over.
14. Make a creative statement
There’s no mistaking the number on this house. When its design is in line with the home’s facade, a house number can add real street appeal.
There’s no mistaking the number on this house. When its design is in line with the home’s facade, a house number can add real street appeal.
Be proud of where you live with standout numbering that steps outside the norm – simply use words instead of digits. If the letters are reflective, so much the better; they’ll be easier to spot in the dark.