100 best ideas: modern country houses photo

No homeowner will argue that the appearance of the home is the face of its owners. The impression of not only the position of the owners in society, their taste preferences, but even the style and rhythm of life, directly depends on how the facade of the building is made, in which color palette and in which stylistic direction it is decorated. Using modern styling to design the exterior of the building, on the one hand, provides home owners with a fairly wide range of options for choosing building and finishing materials, but on the other hand, imposes certain restrictions on the decoration of the facade. Let's try to understand together the features of the modern style of decoration of the facades of private houses of urban and suburban type.

Style features

Modern styling is a mix of borrowings from various stylistic movements, the appearance of which preceded the present era of private dwelling design. In modern style, minimalism, hi-tech, modern and even industrialism are mixed. No wonder modern styling is called comfortable minimalism.

Among the most striking style criteria, several characteristic features of the exterior of the building can be distinguished:

simple forms and clear lines - the geometricity of modern buildings is elevated to absolute;
maximally large spaces (as far as the financial capabilities of the owners and the size of land allow);
panoramic windows - the maximum possible number of surfaces is made of glass, so that the internal arrangement of buildings is filled with sunlight and presents to the owners as more spacious than it actually is, dwellings;
minimal facade decoration - only practical components, exclusively functional architectural elements;
the use of environmentally friendly building and decoration materials - natural raw materials or its effective imitation, safe for humans and the environment;
combining various types of materials to create an interesting finish for the simplest form solutions.

If you state dry facts about the concept of creating a modern style of building exterior design, you may get the impression of excessive brevity and even boring design. But the modern style can be diverse - the use of interesting design solutions, unusual color combinations, combinatorics of materials of different compositions - all this allows even in the framework of strict forms and minimal decor to create original architectural solutions and design them with an individual approach. We hope that our impressive selection of modern design projects of private houses located in different parts of the world will convince you of the versatility of the modern style of the exterior design of buildings.

Decorating a modern private house

The modern market of finishing materials pleases homeowners with diversity. A homeowner with any wallet size, a list of technological requirements for the material and taste preferences will be able to find a suitable facade coating option. But, before proceeding with planning the design of the facade, it is necessary to decide whether you want to harmoniously fit into the external image of the street on which your house is located or to act as a territorial accent, surprising all passers-by. The same applies to private apartments located outside the city - for someone it is important to integrate seamlessly into the local landscape, for others, the visibility of the building from a distance will be a priority, due to its outstanding size and colorful design.

There are many ways to design a facade in a modern style, but of the most popular today you can distinguish the following options:

facades with insulation;
decoration of the building with brick and clinker;
stone facade (most often artificial material);
use of front panels.

Obviously, each of the ways to create the finish, and therefore the appearance of the building, has its own technological and aesthetic features. Finishing options differ externally in terms of characteristics and cost. Let us examine in more detail some of them.

Facades with insulation

At the moment, there are two main ways to create a facade cladding and an outer insulation layer:

wet facade, created using plaster of various types;
Exterior with ventilated system.

Ventilated facades today are one of the most popular areas in the construction and design of private homes. The advantages of such systems are the ability to use in almost any climatic conditions, a sufficiently high level of protection against various environmental influences and durability of the lining.

Thanks to an incredibly wide selection of cladding panels and panels, with which you can create the outer layer of the wind facade, homeowners can carry out any, even the most creative design project to create a unique exterior of their home.

The main technological and aesthetic advantages of ventilated facades are associated with the design features of creating this type of system. Between the outer surface of the walls of the house and the facing material remains air space, which can be achieved by creating a metal frame for the installation of finishing panels. Through this air gap, air circulation also occurs.

By itself, the technology of creating an air space between the wall and the finish already contributes to the improvement of the thermal insulation characteristics of materials. But besides this, most often the outer surface of the walls is insulated with mineral wool, which for the Russian climatic conditions in most cases is more than justified.

Another advantage of creating such facades is the ability to restore old, dilapidated buildings. You can create a modern home with original decoration from an old house that you inherited. Among the currently most popular materials for external cladding of ventilated facades among Russian buyers, the following can be distinguished:

granite slabs;
vinyl and metal sided;
stone and ceramic tiles;
fiber cement panels;
aluminum panels.

Other materials with high strength are also used. Durability and resistance to various types of impacts. But most often the materials are combined to create a difficult and practical and reliable wall covering, but also an original, memorable image of the building.

Stucco multilayer finish It also allows you to create an effective and outwardly attractive finish for modern private homes. The technique of finishing the building with plaster also allows you to create a layer of insulation on modern households. This effect can be achieved using a layered structure: first, a heat-insulating layer is mounted on the surface of the walls of the building, then it is covered with a reinforced mesh and then plaster is applied.

This type of facade design also has many advantages. The main advantages can be easily attributed to the ease of installation of plaster cladding. Even the owner, who had no previous experience in creating this type of facade, will be able to cope with the task with the necessary tools and the simplest skills to handle them.

As a heat-insulating layer in the system for creating facades using wet plaster, various types of insulation materials can be used. As a rule, tiles of mineral wool or polystyrene are used. Such a heat-insulating tile is most often mounted with glue (insulation material is simply glued to the outer surface of the walls). The reinforcing mesh, the following, ensures the reliability and durability of not only the heat-insulating layer, but also the entire building cladding system.

As for plaster, it is presented on the modern market of finishing materials with a variety of different mixtures, allowing you to create a finish of a different color palette, texture and technological qualities. The following types of this finishing material are most popular with Russian buyers:

mineral plaster - made from environmentally friendly components (in addition to cement, water and sand, various plasticizers are added to the mixture that improve the technological properties of the material and pigments that change its color);
polymer plaster - A modern material with high resistance to any kind of environmental influences. Mixtures for a long time do not lose their original appearance, do not fade in the sun, do not respond to low temperature;
silicate plaster - one of the most progressive methods of creating a protective layer on the surface using mixtures (high resistance to temperature changes and air humidity).

In addition to installing a frame with a heat-insulating layer of insulation, there are many other ways to create a facade cladding. Despite the emergence of new, modern ways to create reliable protection for the walls of a private house, the use of natural materials is always the trend - wall cladding with wood or stone is one of the most expensive ways, but the appearance of the building compensates for any costs with its sophistication.

The facade color palette

We use contrast combinations

Light walls in combination with dark window frames and a contrasting dark tiled roof look modern and stylish. Against the background of a clear blue sky and green spaces, such combinations look spectacular. As a contrasting color scheme, you can use a combination of white, light beige and gray with a dark wood pattern, black and dark brown shades.

Bright accents for the modern facade

The modern style reveres light shades, using various shades of gray, contrasting black and white combinations. But the bright accents of modern style are not alien. The easiest way is to create a non-trivial, memorable image using bright color solutions in small structural elements - frames of large windows, entrance doors, rainwater drainage system.

Bright colors can also be used to decorate some surfaces of the house - the roof or accent walls. To combine with a colorful tone, you must choose a neutral color - white or gray. Nobody will miss such a building from view and will remember for a long time. In a series of buildings of the same type, a bright facade will stand out, decorating the surrounding picture.

In harmony with nature

The use of natural shades in the design of the facade is the creation of an image of home ownership that blends harmoniously with the surrounding landscape. The easiest way is to create an organic integration of the building into the surrounding "picture" - the use of natural materials or their effective imitation. In the design of the exterior of the building, you can use a combination of masonry, wooden surfaces or panels in warm, natural colors.

Snow-white buildings

White color is incredibly popular not only for decorating the interior of private houses and apartments, but also for creating facades of private households. It is especially effective to use the white color, which perfectly reflects the sun's rays, in the southern regions with a hot climate. Against the background of blue sky and green plants, snow-white buildings look amazing, solemn, but at the same time easy.

Examples of creative solutions within the framework of modern style

The modern style of decoration of the facades of private houses is multifaceted and diverse. Designer's ideas will always find a way to express themselves even within the framework of an existing concept. We bring to your attention several original design projects of private households that attract attention to themselves with one or another outstanding technique of architectural, constructive and design solutions.