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Picture Perfect: 33 Homes with Eye-Catching External Features

Our coffee-break escape offers you five minutes' worth of images to inspire and delight. Jump right in...

Julia Fairley
Julia FairleyFebruary 11, 2019
Chief Sub-Editor and Writer, Houzz Australia and New Zealand. I love design and architecture that is thoughtful, sophisticated and champions an element of the unexpected. Before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts at UNSW and becoming a journalist, I studied interior architecture. For over a decade I have interviewed inspiring creative minds from around the world to write about design in its many different forms. Recently, I have also become an accidental gardener, to everyone's surprise.
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Timber. Tiles. Metal mesh. Bagged bricks. There are so many interesting treatments you can adopt for your external walls – here are 33 with wow factor from around the world.

And remember, you can get more details of a project and see more of a professional’s work by clicking on a photo.
Horizon - Residential & Commercial Builders
1. Iron curtain. Double Bay, NSW
Designer: Horizon – Residential & Commercial Builders
Axolotl
2. Embossed metal map. Forest Lodge, NSW
Designer: Code Green
Melbourne Design Studios (MDS)
3. Pattern play. Melbourne, Victoria
Designer: Melbourne Design Studios (MDS)
NORTHBOURNE Architecture + Design
4. Perfectly perforated. South Yarra, Victoria
Designer: Northbourne Architecture + Design

Read about this house, affectionately named ‘PerfPad’
Bellemo & Cat
5. Polycarbonate skin. Melbourne, Victoria
Designer: Bellemo & Cat
Lunchbox Architect
…Here’s a view of the interior.
inovasis design
6. Rusty and rustic. The Rocks, NSW
Designer: inovasis design
7. Zinc house. Melbourne, Victoria
Designer: Ande Bunbury Architects
Denizen Works
8. Coastal and corrugated. Isle of Tiree, Scotland
Ceramo Tiles
9. Tile and texture. Perth, WA
10. Terrifically tiled. Delhi, India
Marcia Prentice Photography
11. Into the blue. Los Angeles, USA
mckimm residential design
12. Just add murals. Melbourne, Victoria
Designer: mckimm residential design
13. Living green wall. Mexico City, Mexico
RENATO D'ETTORRE ARCHITECTS
14. Concrete cool. Townsville, Queensland
Designer: Renato D’Ettorre Architects
Matt Gibson Architecture + Design
15. Peek-a-boo. North Melbourne, Victoria
Designer: Matt Gibson Architecture + Design
Aileen Sage Architects
16. Bagged brick. Sydney, NSW
Designer: Aileen Sage Architects
Francesco Pierazzi Architects
17. Chevron chic. London, UK
User
18. Bamboo beauty. Adelaide, SA
Designer: One Small Room – OSR Interiors & Building Design
Decus Interiors
19. Ahead of the curve. Tamarama, NSW
Designer: Decus Interiors

Read about this coastal home that shuns typical beach style
Jenny Ford Design
20. Fret not, fretwork. Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Designer: Jenny Ford Design
Volantes Decorating Service
21. Stone and steel. Sydney, NSW
Designer: Volantes Decorating Service
TKD Architects
22. Two-toned. Hunters Hill, NSW
Designer: TKD Architects
halfcuttea.com
23. Glass house. West Virginia, USA
POWDA CON
24. Do a pivot. Torquay, Victoria
Designer: Auhaus Architecture

Read about this house, owned by a concreter and an artist
25. Shingle style. Channel Islands
User
26. Water works. Perth, WA
Designer: Mondo Landscapes
the construction zone, ltd.
27. Rammed earth. Phoenix, USA
Hall + Bednarczyk Architects
28. Well-clad. Monmouthshire, Wales
Architectural Windows and Doors Australia
29. Weathered beauty. Melbourne, Victoria
John Kraemer & Sons
30. Stacked stone. Minneapolis, USA
Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors
31. Converted cardboard factory. Armadale, Victoria
Designer: Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors
ROBERT KERR architecture design
32. Merry mosaics. Los Angeles, USA
LeichtUSA
33. Bell tower. London, UK

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