Design is in the Details

The key to creating a unique design for your home is by identifying and customizing architectural details to meet your taste and personality.  With careful consideration of these design elements, you can create an eclectic blend of colors, lines and texture that enhance one another and create a beautiful harmony.
 
No matter what the architectural style of your home, there are common design features that you can focus on and consider in your designing and planning process.  Some of these elements include: 
 
• Foundation
• Gables and dormers
• Doors, windows and shutters
• Porches and patios
• Hipped roofs and eaves
• Corners and trim
• Fireplaces
 
Each architectural style presents ample opportunity for creative expression by identifying design elements essential to the style.  Some examples include: 
 
• The Victorian offers the most abundant opportunities for customizing design elements.  For example, the Folk Victorian with its spindle work, gingerbread trim, bay windows and octagonal towers and the Queen Anne with its gables, wrap-around porches, towers, turrets and decorative shingles. – awkward second sentence
 
• The Bungalow with its flat, horizontal lines intermingled with a low pitched roof, extended eaves and exposed, overhanging beams are key to enhancing the rustic nature of this style.  In addition, its large, wide porches and foundations often lend themselves to stone application, further enhancing this design medley.
 
• The heart of the Cottage lies in its casualness and its simplicity.  Enjoyment of life, friends and family are key and the cottage is designed to bring together these elements with multiple, large porches and patios as well as abundant windows and doors that allow light into the home.
 
Exterior Portfolio™ by Crane offers an extensive line of product styles and colors that will allow you to take advantage of these architectural details to best enhance the style of your home, as well as express your individual personality.  Some ideas include:
 
• Bungalow – CraneBoard® 6 cedargrain siding with a BellaStone™ foundation
• Cape Cod - Contrasting colors of CraneBoard® 7 for siding and dormers
• Cottage – Contrasting colors of CraneBoard 6 with Board & Batten gables
• Colonial – Contrasting colors of CraneBoard 7 with a Portsmouth Shake® gable

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