Exterior Home Remodel, Previewed on Your House
Upload one photo from the street and see your house with new siding, a new color, black window frames or a covered porch. Photorealistic, in about a minute, before you commit five figures to any of it.
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Why the exterior is the remodel you preview first
Interior mistakes are private and mostly reversible: a bad paint color in the bedroom costs a weekend. Exterior mistakes are public and expensive: the wrong siding color greets you every single day, the neighbors see it too, and redoing it means paying the whole job twice. That asymmetry is why exterior decisions deserve a photorealistic preview more than any other remodel: you get exactly one attempt at $15,000 siding, and a $0 render is the only way to rehearse it.
The workflow is deliberately simple. Photograph your house from across the street in daylight. Upload it, pick Home Exterior, and describe the direction: repaint in sage green with white trim, swap the vinyl for board-and-batten, add a covered entry, replace the shutters with black window frames. Generate, compare versions side by side, and take the winner to your contractor or your HOA as the brief.
What an exterior home renovation costs in 2026
Typical installed ranges for the projects people preview most. The point of the table is not precision, it is scale: every line justifies rehearsing the decision on a render first.
| Project | Typical range | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Exterior repaint (full house) | $3,000 to $7,000 | Prep and stories drive it; the color is free to get wrong in a render |
| Vinyl siding replacement | $12,000 to $22,000 | Board-and-batten and shake profiles price at the top |
| Fiber cement siding | $15,000 to $30,000 | The premium look most modern-farmhouse remodels use |
| Window replacement | $500 to $1,200 per window | Black frames: same price, most of the visual change |
| Front door, installed | $500 to $2,500 | Highest curb-appeal impact per dollar on the list |
| Covered porch addition | $10,000 to $30,000 | Structural work: preview placement before drawings |
| Landscape + entry lighting | $2,000 to $5,000 | The finishing layer that makes the rest read as designed |
The three exterior previews that pay for themselves
The repaint rehearsal
Paint chips lie at house scale: a color that looks calm on a 2-inch card turns loud across 2,000 square feet of siding. Render your shortlist on your actual facade, in your actual light, and the argument settles itself before the painter quotes.
The siding decision
Vinyl versus board-and-batten versus fiber cement is a $10,000 to $30,000 fork. Preview each on your house before ordering samples: profile and color read completely differently on a real roofline than in a catalog.
The curb-appeal refresh
Selling? A front door, black frames, lighting and tidy front planting is the cheap version of an exterior remodel. Render it first and hand the photo to a handyman: it is a scope of work a listing agent will love.
Frequently asked questions
Can AI remodel my home exterior from a photo? ⌄
Yes. Upload one photo of your house taken from the street, tell the AI what to change (new siding, a different paint color, black window frames, a covered porch) and it returns a photorealistic version of your actual house with those changes. The structure, roofline and proportions stay yours: only the design layer changes.
Is the exterior remodel tool free to try? ⌄
New accounts get 5 free credits, no card needed. Each exterior preview uses one credit, so you can test a repaint, a siding swap and a porch addition on your own house before spending anything.
Can I preview exterior paint colors on my own house? ⌄
Yes, and it is the single most common use. Describe the color ("sage green siding with white trim and a black door") and the AI repaints your actual photo. Testing five colors costs five credits and ten minutes; repainting the wrong color costs $3,000 to $7,000.
Does it work with brick, stucco and vinyl siding? ⌄
Yes. The AI reads the material from your photo and can keep it, restyle it, or replace it: paint the brick, render over the stucco, swap vinyl for board-and-batten. Material swaps are exactly the previews that are hardest to imagine and most expensive to regret.
Will a render satisfy my HOA? ⌄
A photorealistic preview of your actual house is a far stronger HOA submission than a paint chip taped to a form. It is not a construction document, but for color and material approval requests it shows the committee precisely what they are approving.
What does an exterior remodel actually cost? ⌄
Typical 2026 ranges: exterior repaint $3,000 to $7,000; vinyl siding replacement $12,000 to $22,000; fiber cement siding $15,000 to $30,000; window replacement $500 to $1,200 per window; a new front door $500 to $2,500 installed; a covered porch $10,000 to $30,000. Which is exactly why the preview comes first.
See your house remodeled, free
One street photo in, a photorealistic exterior remodel out. 5 free credits with a new account, no card needed.
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