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House Exterior Design Prompt: Redesign Ideas From Your Photo
Get three exterior redesign concepts from your house photo: palette, materials, lights, plants, a ChatGPT Images edit prompt for each, and contractor questions.
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Prompt
Act as a residential exterior designer who works from a homeowner's photo and turns it into three realistic redesign concepts they could price with local contractors. You keep the parts they cannot or will not change, and you write an image edit prompt so they can preview each concept. Inputs: - The house photo: style, era, stories, siding, roof, trim, door, garage, lighting, plants, what the camera sees: [HousePhoto] - What bothers the owner and the feeling they want (warmer, modern, classic, brighter): [StyleGoal] - Total budget for the exterior project: [Budget] - Fixed elements that must stay (roofline, windows, brick, driveway): [KeepFixed] - Climate and region (freeze-thaw, salt air, hot sun, wildfire zone): [ClimateRegion] - HOA rules, historic district, or city design rules, or "none known": [HOARules] Generate: 1. Read of the facade: main issues in the photo (flat color, weak entry, dated fixtures, overgrown plants, garage dominating) and the focal point the redesign should create. 2. Three concepts at different scopes within Budget: a refresh (paint, door, lighting, plants), a mid change (adds entry or trim upgrades), and a bold option. For each: palette described by color family and finish (body, trim, door), materials, lighting, and planting, each tied to ClimateRegion. 3. For each concept, a ChatGPT Images edit prompt under 100 words that starts with what must stay the same (KeepFixed, camera angle, house shape) and then lists only the changes. 4. Cost drivers: rank what would use most of Budget in each concept, without inventing prices, and say what to get quotes for. 5. Questions for contractors, HOA, and the city (permits for structural work, porch roofs, electrical, and anything visible from the street). 6. A sample order of work for the refresh, with the season that suits each step in ClimateRegion. Rules: - No named paint colors or brands unless I give them; describe colors instead. - Structural, electrical, and roofing work goes to licensed pros and local permit rules, which vary by city. This is design guidance, not engineering or legal advice.
Instructions
Paste into ChatGPT with the brackets filled, then upload your house photo with the + button and run each edit prompt to preview the concepts. Check plans with your city and licensed contractors before any build or electrical work.
Generated Output
This image was generated using the prompt above.
Examples
Example Input
HousePhoto: 1978 single-story ranch seen straight on from the street; beige vinyl siding, brown trim, gray asphalt shingle roof, low-pitched hip roof; small concrete stoop with no cover; plain brown front door; two dated brass carriage lights; overgrown boxwoods hiding the lower windows; attached two-car garage with a white raised-panel door taking about a third of the facade StyleGoal: it looks flat and tired; we want warmer and a bit modern, with the entry easier to see Budget: $15,000 total KeepFixed: roofline, windows, vinyl siding (replacing it is out of budget), driveway ClimateRegion: Columbus, Ohio; cold winters with freeze-thaw, humid summers HOARules: no HOA; house is not in a historic district
Example Output
1. READ OF THE FACADE - Beige siding with brown trim reads as one flat tone; nothing draws the eye. - The garage door is the brightest thing in the photo, so it wins over the entry. - The uncovered stoop and brown door make the entry hard to find. - Boxwoods hide the lower windows and make the house look shorter. Focal point: the front door. 2. CONCEPTS A. Refresh. Keep the siding. Repaint trim in a soft warm white and the garage door to match the siding so it recedes. Front door in a deep green, satin finish. Replace carriage lights with matte black lanterns, plus a wall light by the garage. Remove the boxwoods; plant low, winter-hardy shrubs and ornamental grasses that stay under the window sills. Fresh mulch. B. Mid change. Everything in A, plus a simple shed-roof porch cover over the stoop on two posts, and a wider concrete or paver landing. Painted house numbers in black near the door. C. Bold. Everything in A, plus a new garage door with a flat panel and a row of windows, painted to match the siding, and a horizontal slat accent screen beside the entry. Stained wood-look posts if B's cover is added. 3. EDIT PROMPTS (upload your photo first) A: Keep the house exactly the same: roofline, windows, beige siding, driveway, and camera angle. Change the trim to soft warm white, paint the garage door the same beige as the siding, paint the front door deep green, replace the porch lights with matte black lanterns, remove the boxwoods, and add low grasses and small shrubs below the windows with dark mulch. Photorealistic, late afternoon light. B: Same as A, plus a simple shed-roof porch cover over the front stoop on two white posts. C: Same as A, plus a flat-panel garage door with a row of small windows across the top, painted to match the siding. 4. COST DRIVERS (get quotes; no prices assumed) A: exterior trim painting labor, the new door finish, an electrician for the lights, shrub removal. B: the porch cover (framing, roofing tie-in, footings) will likely be the largest share of $15,000. C: the garage door and its install. 5. QUESTIONS - City of Columbus: does a stoop cover need a building permit and an inspection? - Electrician: can the new lantern boxes use the existing wiring? - Porch builder: footing depth for freeze-thaw, and how the new roof ties in to the hip roof. - Painter: prep needed on 1978 trim, and whether testing for lead paint is needed on a house of that age. 6. ORDER OF WORK (REFRESH) Late fall or early spring: remove boxwoods. Late spring: paint trim and garage door in dry, mild weather. Any time: lights. Spring: plant shrubs and grasses after the last frost.