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See attached. This 70 year old "progressive" home is for sale and I am considering buying it. Please check it out and offer creative ideas on cosmetic renovation. This sticks out badly in an area of 1920's colonials, bungalows, etc.
I think this home will always stick out in that neighborhood. I like it. The first thing I would do is replace the door and those single pane windows to save money heating and cooling. And I would go modern. No reason to buy reproductions or period appropriate expensive stuff. Modern all the way and embrace the difference.
Put double glass doors in the entry and close in the rest....Make a door go out to the balcony on the 2nd floor and either close it in to make a sunroom or put a roof over it and make it an outside sitting area....Put shutters on the windows. Also put a stone façade on the whole front..
(Its fun spending other peoples money on renovations!!!)
You can paint it in colors that give it some contrast. Right now it looks like a gray block. Throw done bars in the windows and you got the Graybar Hotel. Get rid of the entry curtains? And the weird front for. I'm assuming the front door is just leading into a entry way/mud room area? It will never look like a colonial unless you do some major exterior remodeling. Maybe do a photoshop of different colors. I think it would look better in earth tones that seem to be more used today. It really has no style that it's drawing from. It's a square block.
I like it. I would paint the exterior a light shade of brown and I would paint all of the trim black. I would remove the front door and front windows surrounding the door and replace with French doors with the full panel being windows that match the doors. I would replace the upper balcony "fence" with a wrought iron railing.
Oh heck! Reminds me of the homes in Kuwait - on a much smaller scale. Not attractive to me at all but maybe a clean white and... wait. How about turning it into a south-of-the-border stucco type thing? The front door area begs for a storefront window but that would be odd on a residential, wouldn't it? Still you could do something fairly striking with that front door area. Something red. Who in the world painted it in such a drab way? Poor house!
Is that a flat roof? Serious red flag for me.
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