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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 modern house. 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.
When lit from within, moulded concrete blocks pattern the flat face of this home like a luminous wallpaper. Climbing plants grow on the inner plane of a wood clad wrap around wall, providing a healthy green view to most of the home’s picture windows.
This home is a series of interlocking boxes, defined by white concrete and dark stained exterior wood cladding. LED stair lights warmly and safely mark out the approach to the front door at night.
Green shrubs are held at treetop height in two constructed concrete planters that span the entire width of the building, so as not to break the line of greenery that travels the length of the street.
Decorative wooden doors make a big statement down at street level. Wooden slats take the eye all the way up past a mid-level balcony and finally to a rooftop garden.
A delicate look is achieved by this lacey patterned blockwork, despite its concrete makeup. Moments of interest step across the facia in diagonal line, first as a picture window, then in the form of two architecturally framed tree planters.
Another digitised facia style. This time all of the square cutouts are of a uniform size except for one isolated picture window. The rooftop is sliced away at the front to accommodate a rooftop garden with trees.
Greenery spills through these square peekholes. The cantilevered upper volume of this home clings to a thin brick wall, looking as though its massive weight could pull the whole thing over.
A textured white section adds interest to the centre of a dark volume; wood cladding crosses beneath it, matching the look of the modern house number plate.
This unique front door design has a ‘v’ shaped wooden inlay. Matching the width of the double door front entrance, a wall garden grows to the height of the ground floor, flourishing right on the front street.
Colourful painted window shutters completely engulf the front of this skinny tall home. Some of the shutters can be opened up to reveal window openings, others are purely cosmetic.
This brick built tall home has dual aspect windows across one corner. The double banked cutout windows make the brickwork appear like a capital letter ‘E’ on the front face.
A super thin window climbs the entire height of this skinny home, offering a view of the stairwell from top to bottom. The living room glows on full view to the driveway.
The picture windows of this modern home are a bespoke design that extrude from the flat brickwork face, as though they were picture frames hanging on a gallery wall.
