Ideas for a 1970s contemporary house exterior beside a windowless expanse? Our house is unusual and I need some relief! It is oriented...
Our house is unusual and I need some relief! It is oriented to transport advantage of a wonderful picture out of the front windows, but that process that visitors drive up to the posterior of our house that is not attractive. We are totalling a covered deck and steps, better lighting, etc. to make it more genial, as well as bright siding. The problem is all the elegant windows are within the front and no one see them. The back have a few, but also has a severely large expanse near no windows explicitly unattractive. I want to hang down something, like one of those ample stars, but nothing gummy! Does anyone else have better accepted wisdom to deal beside a large boring nouns with no window? The house is boxy with a flat built-up roof, hugely dramatic on the side with the vision and very boring as you drive up! Thanks!
I, too, be headed down the plant road, thinking espalier trees. Not on the second floor.
How roughly a suitably large two-dimensional sculpture? Not satisfactory people put art on the outsides of their homes. If you live contained by an area where on earth such is hard to find, I don`t know there is a college adjacent with a well-mannered arts department, and you could put an ad up asking students to submit thinking (drawings), and then you'd earnings them for the result. College kids can make fine art, and they enjoy a distorted view of money, so $500 could buy you countless hours of labor. They own to make things surrounded by order to pass by the class, and to be paid for it would be a dream come true.
Take a picture of the back of the house, cut back it to a line drawing, create a bunch of copies and get out the crayons and play.
I'd consider stuff resembling changing texture of siding (part board and batten, part shingle, chunk diagonal tongue and groove perhaps?), shifting paint and trim colors, etc.
Since I'm a botanist, my first crack at the problem would probably be trellises, arbors and pergolas with really great plants on them. Take a look at some photos of walled gardens contained by Britain (and elsewhere) to get some accepted wisdom, too: here, a fountain and plants balance a hardscape and fragment of fairly plain wall:
http://www.chicagobotanic.org/therapy/in...
You might even walk as far as "living walls"
You might want to think around not letting people who drive up to the garage see the entire expanse of that side of the house at first... ponder about using well-situated considerable shrubs/small trees to block part of the outlook (I'm not tallking about 10 ft privet hedge, here, but informal pockets of plantings) to create a real "entrance way" from the driveway through some sort of an exit or arch or gate into the actual house entrance from that side. You see this sort of piece a lot within the classic Gertrude Jekyll designs... a
fairly plain arch or doorway through which you can see element, but not all of the nouns. You must enter to see what's really there. Frank Lloyd Wright did it within several houses to create some drama -- a fairly peter out, darkish passageway to an embark on, bright room. And you see it in heaps Mediterranean buildings... a modest doorway leading to a courtyard next to resting spot (your deck?) and then to the living camp.
I'm not explaining it well, but you might try poking around contained by the book "Pattern Language", which was published give or take a few 1977 -- the sections on entering and exiting an nouns are the ones most pertainent. Not the most simple reading, but the design ideas are wonderful...
Edited to append: since the area is the second floor, consider trees fairly blocking the view of that nouns... or vines. Still, the basic notion of using structure and plant material to break up the vastness holds.
Answers: Select a plant textile that is dramatic, different, and "modern" looking, and plant several along the out expanse. Then install lights at the base so that at darkness the light and shadows clear a dramatic pattern contained by the walls. I can't tell where on earth you live by your question, but I am thinking that Mahonia bealei, the Leatherleaf Grape Holly, looks drastically 70's and fills the bill for such a purpose, if it will live outdoors where on earth you live. Other possibilities are Yuccas, dwarf palms like Pygmy Date Palms or Christmas Palms, Bamboos, Oakleaf Hydrangeas, Cactus, Elephant Ears or New Zealand Flax. Again it will depend where on earth you live what you choose.