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Designing an attractive Mansard roof
if you can't get your house to look
attractive then it's almost not worth
doing the renovation I'm Rebecca from
family home experts and I was recently
asked about a mansard roof so I've got a
client who sent me an example that I'm
going to go through here today and we've
modeled up both some before and two
options of us afters to show you how to
deal with probably one of the most
difficult roof forms to get to look
attractive from what most people would
consider a good looking house it's one
of those elements that we always look at
at the start of the design process
because if you only look at the floor
plan and layout you can end up with
something that's cost you a lot to do
but has no difference in appeal from the
street front and then when it comes to
the final end of your journey in your
house selling your house you don't want
to basically completely devalue your
home and have over capitalized when
people drive past on the street that's
the first step before they even walk
inside and if there isn't some kind of
street appeal to encourage people to
come in then you really find it impacts
your resale value and add family home
experts we find that most of our clients
are concerned about resale value because
at the end of the day they don't want to
over capitalize at some point they're
going to have to sell that house and it
might be five years it might be fifty
years but let's not ignore that so this
meant sod roof I'm going to put up a
picture now of what that roof looks like
on this original house and now I'm going
to walk you through on ArchiCAD the two
options that we have developed so this
is the first option here it's a
traditional take and it echoes back to
some of the Cape cod-style from the
Hamptons because this is probably one of
the few ways that a mansard roof is done
in a way that's a lot more appealing to
common tastes and aesthetics on what we
think looks good in the Cape Cod style
they've normally got shingles now we
definitely don't want to be using
shingles in Australia because they just
don't stand up to our weather conditions
but even so using that style as your
influence can really help you take it in
a much more traditional setting
so hopefully that shows you one way to
take it in a traditional approach we're
now going to look to a more modern
approach now both of these design
approaches once you've worked out what
look you want to do you've then got to
see how that translates into floorplan
because it might be that once you look
at what actually needs to be solved or
done with the house might change some of
these looks on the outside but if you
don't even know what look you're trying
to achieve you can't even make it work
from the floor plan one of the great
tricks with difficult roof lines is a
parapet so many years ago we had a house
that had a roof like this it was two
different angles so we had a really
steep pitch here and then a really long
shallow pitch here and it was quite a
strange roof form very 70s looking what
we did in this case was we actually
built a parapet across this portion of
the house so this stuff all ended up
getting hidden and then it just looked
like we had a skillion roof off the side
of a tall parapet form this parapet
approach is one of the last resorts to
use if you're trying to get weird 70s
roof form to work so hopefully that
gives you a bit of an understanding into
some of the ways we can I guess
creatively look at solving a house
that's perhaps less than attractive to
bring it up to a much more modern
aesthetic I hope you've enjoyed this
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I'm Rebecca from family home experts
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