It’s no secret that a chic home façade delivers a valuable first impression and sets the scene for what the rest of your home is like inside. A façade showcasing light and bright hues certainly creates a freshness that works beautifully, especially in Queensland.
At Plantation Homes, we are meticulous about handpicking the perfect colour and texture combinations for our façades. One thing is for certain, colour plays an integral role in the façade creation, and it continues to grow in popularity with Queenslanders. A home's façade needs to be timeless and elegant, working well with the rest of the front outlook, including the garden and driveway.
In this article, we'll explore our most popular façade options available, and provide expert tips and tricks for choosing the ideal façade for your family home.
The Broadway facade
When it comes to our most popular facades, the Broadway shows how the family home can echo style and opulence. The clever use of textures on a home’s exterior can elevate the look, giving the façade a brightness that complements the garden beautifully, with its shades of greenery and Colorbond™ roof and garage door. The holiday vibe also sings loud and proud with a modern façade.
The understated simplicity of the Broadway façade has been revealed as the number one choice for Queenslanders. Plantation Homes' design studio manager, Di Gaffney says, “The Broadway façade works best when done with a perfect balance of crisp white vertical panelling and peppered light grey brickwork that makes a beautiful statement when approaching the entrance patio”.
Whether it is weatherboards, brick or textured panelling, your façade is a perfect canvas to add a sprinkling of colour to the rest of the home. It may be a front door with glass and statement colour or a textured balcony - creating an inviting coastal feel to your home.
The Zara facade
The Zara facade is our second most popular façade choice and is not only great value but also exudes a welcoming freshness. “Sophisticated and clean, the Zara works best paired with neutral tones of whites and light greys. This really sets off the garden and glass featured in the windows and front door”, says Di.
The Ridge facade
The Ridge façade, showcased below on one of our double storey Valletta home designs, has proven the third most popular façade choice for Queensland. Colours play an important role in your façade selection. A façade dominated by white exudes sophisticated and timeless elegance, adding to that much important curb appeal. Colours not only elevate your house in the opulence stakes but also have an important practical role in helping keep internal temperatures inside on the downside – perfect for the Queensland climate. Di said, “the Ridge façade has a strikingly modern skillion roofline that adds a fresh aesthetic appeal, with its contrasted creamy whites with richer grey tones to add that extra flair”.
Hamptons-style facades: Eastport and Portsea
A design trend that has no signs of abating is Hamptons. Rounding out Plantation Homes’ top five façade options, the Eastport and Portsea facades have proven as popular as ever with Queensland buyers looking to emulate the sophisticated and effortless American style.
The stunning and ever-popular Eastport façade celebrates all-things Hamptons – with a freshness and incomparable sophistication. Single-storey homes such as the Hamilton 22, sing a sweet song with the Eastport façade, showcasing a lovely mix of whites and creams that also invoke a stunningly modern Southampton vibe.
Choosing a façade that’s right for you
When deciding on the ideal house façade, think about the maintenance needed for each texture and what budget you are comfortable investing in.
“Using the right mixture of textures or colours on your façade is key.” Di advises. The magic number is three. Some newer estates will have covenant requirements, but where possible, it’s always good to try and limit to three or four different materials (brick, render and timber cladding) or three different colours (light main render, dark feature render and timber stain)”.
A well-balanced home design will use the same colour on many finishes, such as garage and window, to cohesively colour match. The front door and timber cladding stain would be a great duo to match and feature tile, and the garage could match in colour tone.
At Plantation Homes, you can speak with a new home consultant at your local display, who will talk you through your façade wish list and possibilities. Visit our display homes as there are several single and double-storey homes to be inspired by to help you find the façade that is right for you.
