renovate this mid century brick ranch into a contemporary prairie style home keep the existing footprint single story massing roofline height window locations and camera angle convert the gable roofs to low pitch hip roofs with deep overhangs dark brown architectural shingles and dark fascia replace the red brick with gray and buff stacked ledgestone as a wainscot base and as full height piers at the entry and corners with a smooth limestone cap clad the upper walls in dark stained horizontal cedar siding replace the windows with black framed modern windows with simple vertical and horizontal grid divisions make the entry a taller glazed volume flanked by stone piers with a black glass front door and recessed soffit downlights wrap the chimney in matching ledgestone dusk lighting warm interior glow through the windows landscape uplighting on the stone ornamental grasses and perennials in the beds keep the mature oak canopy and boulder retaining wall photorealistic architectural photography high detail
