This complete remodel of a 1980's red brick ranch house transform the home from boring to amazing. All existing ceilings were raised to create a more spacious interior. Also included in the project was a 3 -car garage addition with guest quarters above. Photos by Robert Clark and Joel Van Dyke

Photo of a mid-sized traditional three-storey brick beige house exterior in Atlanta with a shingle roof.

The original house, built in 1953, was a red brick, rectangular box. All that remains of the original structure are three walls and part of the original basement. We added everything you see including a bump-out and addition for a gourmet, eat-in kitchen, family room, expanded master bedroom and bath. And the home blends nicely into the neighborhood without looking bigger (wider) from the street. Every city and town in America has similar houses which can be recycled. Photo courtesy Andrea Hubbell

Photo by Ed Gohlich
Photo of a small traditional one-storey white house exterior in San Diego with wood siding, a gable roof and a shingle roof.

Photo by Mark Weinberg
Expansive traditional two-storey brick white exterior in Salt Lake City with a gable roof.

Built porch on front of brick home and painted brick. Roof Shingles: SG Timb HD Wehterwood ENG SG Roy SOV Weatherwood Gray Door Color: SW Custom Red Shutter Color: SW6258 Tricorn Black Trim Color: SW7004 Snowbound Brick Color: Benjamin Moore Sandy Hook Gray

Rear view of the house at Broad Street in Suffolk by Nash Baker Architects, showing the local handmade red bricks used on the ground floor, and the oak cladding wrapping around the first floor.

This detached Victorian house was extended to accommodate the needs of a young family with three small children. The programme was organized into two distinctive structures: the larger and higher volume is placed at the back of the house to face the garden and make the best use of the south orientation and to accommodate a large Family Room open to the new Kitchen. A longer and thinner volume, only 1.15m wide, stands to the western side of the house and accommodates a Toilet, a Utility and a dining booth facing the Family Room. All the functions that are housed in the secondary volume have direct access either from the original house or the rear extension, thus generating a hierarchy of served and servant volumes, a relationship that is homogeneous to that between the house and the extension. The timber structures, while distinctive in their proportions, are connected by a shallow volume that doubles as a bench to create an architectural continuum and to emphasize the effect of a secondary volume wrapped around a primary one. While the extension makes use of a modern idiom, so that it is clearly distinguished from the original house and so that the history of its development becomes immediately apparent, the size of the red cedar cladding boards, left untreated to allow a natural silvering process, matches that of the Victorian brickwork to bind house and extension together. As the budget did not make possible the use a bespoke profile, an off-the-shelf board was selected and further grooved at mid point to recreate the brick pattern of the façade. A tall and slender pivoting door, positioned at the boundary between the original house and the new intervention, allows a direct view of the garden from the front of the house and facilitates an innovative relationship with the outside. Photo: Gianluca Maver

Inspiration for a traditional verandah in Atlanta with a fire feature.

Front of Georgian house restored
Large traditional two-storey brick red exterior in Toronto.

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Inspiration for a country two-storey white exterior in New York.

3,720 sq ft house plan. 1.5 story home, with four bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, 2 half baths. Raleigh custom homes with a red brick exterior by Stanton Homes. http://www.stantonhomes.com/Bennet.aspx

Intersecting volumes of grey brick and cypress wood rain screen define the house. Zinc cladding and trim is used on both volumes to unify the composition. Together these three materials give the house a deep, rich palette that is both approachable and awe inspiring. Photo by Jack Thompson Photography

Photography by Morgan Howarth
Inspiration for a traditional brick exterior in DC Metro.

Charming traditional home featuring "Jefferson Wade Tudor (6035)" brick exteriors with Holcim Type S mortar.
Photo of a mid-sized traditional three-storey brick red house exterior in Other with a shingle roof.

The front facade is composed of bricks, shiplap timber cladding and James Hardie Scyon Axon cladding, painted in Dulux Blackwood Bay. Photography: Tess Kelly

This is the entry façade of an oceanfront house on Kiawah Island. It has a gracious front porch adorned with the quintessential porch furniture: rocking chairs. The porch ceiling is natural stained beaded board, the shutters are operable wood, the siding is cedar shingles stained on all 6 sides, the brick is old brick, and the roof is heavy Vermont slate.

Chicago Buff Brick house built with reclaimed Chicago brick - North shore of Chicago - Gerrerd Abrams
Photo of a traditional brick exterior in Chicago.

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