A tall skinny house can become lost along the row, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue with these narrow facade house ideas. By implementing a selection of innovative planting ideas to create vertical gardens, some beautiful screening and modern shutters, these narrow plot houses stand way out from the rest of the street. This collection also has a multitude of architectural features such as asymmetrical roof lines, contemporary cladding and unique shaped windows. A tiny plot in the middle of a city can even harbour an internal garage, tucked away into the small footprint of the ground floor, to provide coveted off-road parking.
Our first narrow home looks less like a house than it does like a wall of outdoor planters. Plants peep out from each and every level as the eye climbs to the top.
This transformation of a normal house uses a new facade of ‘shelved’ plants.
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Spaced vertical planks present as modern screening on this tall house exterior. The lengths extend way up into the sky to make the building appear even taller. The screen also has a stepped effect between the neighbouring houses that have one lower and one higher roof height.
Exterior parking space has been achieved here by raising the entry floor, which is accessed via an external staircase to the front door.
Squares are punched out of a sloping concrete facade, to create peepholes to lush planting and warm glimmers of light.
This amazing geometric structure is the exterior of a small home that we have previously covered here. An impossible looking cutaway in the base provides a cheeky little parking place.
Faces protrude and shrink away to create an alluring home exterior. Decorative concrete blocks form an attractive, light pierced backdrop to a first floor tree.
Another stunning first floor tree installation, this time with a towering wooden slatted backdrop, which extends all the way up to the roof line where a skylight feature allows sunshine to spill through.
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Cascading plants fall like emerald waterfalls from two balconies. A faux pitched roof makes a sweet silhouette against the sky.
Aqua blue shutters pop against an all white exterior that is perforated to allow moments of greenery to protrude through.
A patterned glass panel shelter extends over a second floor balcony. The ground floor has been reserved for a two car garage.
This small plot has a lack of spare ground space for a garden, so a roof garden crowns the top.
Tall shutters give privacy to the large windows. Decorative concrete bricks screen off the outdoor living areas from prying eyes.
A towering wood clad volume is chamfered inward toward the tall house; a tree grows out of its top. Above the tree, a section has been omitted from the shelter to allow for branch growth.
This home is cantilevered over a driveway. A row of exterior lights are fixed below the upper volume to brightly illuminate the cars approach.
Outdoor plants feather the super flat roof line of this tall narrow facade.
This roof garden is framed like a living shadow box, at the very top of an impossibly towering stack. The tallest trees protrude through a ceiling cutaway, reaching up to touch the sun and catch the very first raindrops from the clouds. Another mature tree is held within a lower frame, with is branches viewable to windows on two levels.
These daytime and nighttime views of the same narrow home design show how shutters can be retracted to reveal the concealed living spaces, where they glow like a library of lightboxes.
A triangular design makes up the top floor, with railings and wood cladding colouring the geometric shape.
Metal garage doors, window shutters and screens colour this home exterior. A modest amount of planting draws attention to an asymmetrical roof line.
A black border surrounds this small home, cutting through the blue sky at a sharp slope. The black exterior elements are complemented by pure white trims for high dramatic contrast. A spray of bright pink flowers fizz straight across the centre of the monochrome facade.
Royal blue paint stripes around the midsection of this narrow exterior. A huge screening feature has been created to lightly obscure the upper levels, made by installing white rods of varying length in a repeat pattern. Branches protrude through an opening in the asymmetrically angled roof.
Square concrete blocks with open centres build almost one entire half of this home; plants grow though the missing middles. A lower balcony is clad in wood plank to contrast.
With warm lighting twinkling through perforated walls, and luminous exterior lighting bathing the outside, this golden home appears positively precious. We have covered this gorgeous home with an internal garden atrium in detail before.
