Front elevation design with AI

AI Front Elevation Design: See a New Front on Your Own House

The front elevation is the side of the house that faces the street, seen straight on. On a narrow plot it is often the only side anyone sees, so it carries the whole design: how the balcony, the windows and the entrance are framed, which lines run up and which run across, and where wood, stone or a bold colour goes. Upload a straight-on photo of your house, or of a concrete shell that is still being built, in the editor below, then describe the front you want. ArchitecturesAI draws an idea picture of the same view. It is not a drawing to build from: it has no dimensions and no structure, so use it to agree on a direction with your architect or contractor.

Try a new front on your house photo

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Front of a plain two-storey off-white house on a narrow city plot, with a flat roof, a small first-floor balcony with a metal railing, windows with metal grills, a car porch and a metal gate in a low boundary wall — Both images are AI-generated with our own image model. The "before" is an AI-drawn stand-in for a photo of a house; it is not a real house. Edit prompt used: "Redesign ONLY the front elevation: add a deep dark gray rectangular box frame that wraps the first-floor balcony and window like a picture frame, replace the balcony railing with clear glass, add a strip of vertical wood-look louvers on the right side of the facade from the first floor to the parapet, and add a light gray stone tile band along the ground floor wall. Keep the house shape, the flat roof, the window and door positions, the boundary wall, the gate and the camera angle exactly the same." What followed it: a deep dark grey box frame now wraps the first-floor balcony and its glazed door, the balcony railing is now clear glass, and a strip of vertical wood-look louvers runs down the right side of the first floor. The house shape, the flat roof, the window and door positions, the boundary wall, the gate and the neighbouring houses stayed. What differs from the prompt: the louvers stop at the first floor instead of running up to the parapet, and no stone band appeared on the ground floor. We ran this one once.

The same house with a dark grey box frame around the first-floor balcony door, a glass balcony railing and a strip of vertical wood louvers on the right of the first floor; gate, boundary wall and neighbours unchanged — Both images are AI-generated with our own image model. The "before" is an AI-drawn stand-in for a photo of a house; it is not a real house. Edit prompt used: "Redesign ONLY the front elevation: add a deep dark gray rectangular box frame that wraps the first-floor balcony and window like a picture frame, replace the balcony railing with clear glass, add a strip of vertical wood-look louvers on the right side of the facade from the first floor to the parapet, and add a light gray stone tile band along the ground floor wall. Keep the house shape, the flat roof, the window and door positions, the boundary wall, the gate and the camera angle exactly the same." What followed it: a deep dark grey box frame now wraps the first-floor balcony and its glazed door, the balcony railing is now clear glass, and a strip of vertical wood-look louvers runs down the right side of the first floor. The house shape, the flat roof, the window and door positions, the boundary wall, the gate and the neighbouring houses stayed. What differs from the prompt: the louvers stop at the first floor instead of running up to the parapet, and no stone band appeared on the ground floor. We ran this one once.

What a front elevation is, and what a design changes

In a set of drawings, an elevation is a straight-on view of one side of a building, with no perspective. The front elevation is the street side. When people ask for a front elevation design, they usually mean the look of that side: the shape of the balcony and its railing, frames or boxes around windows, the entrance and its canopy, the parapet, and where a second material such as wood, stone tile or a dark paint goes.

A good front elevation is mostly about proportion and lines. Vertical elements such as louvers, tall windows and columns make a front look taller; horizontal bands, long balconies and canopies make it look wider and lower. On a narrow plot, where the front may be only one or two rooms wide, these choices decide the look more than the colour does.

This page is about designing that street front on a photo of your house. If you have a drawing of the elevation and want it to look real, or a floor plan and want an elevation from it, those are different jobs with their own pages, linked below.

How to try a front elevation design on your house photo

In the editor above, the mode is Render Architecture and the type is Residential. This mode has no prompt box: you start from a photo.
Under Select Image, upload a JPG or PNG of the front of the house, taken straight on in daylight from across the street, so the whole front from the ground to the parapet is in the frame. A building that is still a concrete shell works too.
Pick the Style closest to what you want and click Generate. Free accounts can only use Low quality (Medium and High are marked PRO). Sign in with Google or email when asked.
To change the front, click Edit Image on the result (the box is called Edit Instructions) or use Custom Action, and describe it in a sentence or two: what to add or change on each floor, the materials, and what must stay the same. Each edit is another render and uses credits. Run it a few times, since every result differs.
The three examples on this page ran directly on our image model, starting from an image, with the written instructions shown. They did not go through the editor above, so your own results will differ.

Try a new front on your house photo

Details to ask for

Name each part and the floor it is on. The model follows short, specific instructions better than a style name alone.

Frames and boxes: a dark box frame around the balcony, a projecting frame around the main window, a frame that runs up two floors.
Balcony: its depth, and a glass, metal or solid railing.
Vertical lines: wood-look or metal louvers, a tall strip window, a stone-clad pier, and how high each one runs.
Horizontal lines: a canopy over the entrance, a band of stone tile on the ground floor, a parapet edge or cornice.
Finish: plaster colour, and where wood, stone or a second colour goes.
What stays: the window and door positions, the gate and boundary wall, the roof and the neighbours.

A modern front on a plain house

The most common request on narrow plots is a modern front: a box frame around the balcony, a glass railing and a strip of louvers. This example asks for all of that plus a stone band, and shows which parts the model drew and which it left out.

A finished front for a house that is still being built

While a house is a concrete shell, the openings are fixed but the finish is not, so it is a good moment to compare designs. This example finishes a bare shell in white plaster with wood and a balcony. It also shows a real limit: the model added a new door that is not in the shell, and left the window openings bare.

Front of an unfinished two-storey concrete house shell on a city street, with bare grey plaster walls, a flat roof with a low parapet, two empty window openings upstairs, a doorway and two wide car porch openings below, and a heap of sand in front — An AI-generated pair made with our own image model. The "before" is an AI-drawn stand-in for a photo of a house shell, not a real building. Edit prompt used: "Turn this house shell into a finished modern front elevation: white smooth plaster walls, a projecting first-floor balcony with a black metal railing, black framed windows in the existing openings, a horizontal wood-look cladding panel above the car porch, a thin cantilevered concrete canopy over the entrance, and warm wall lights. Keep the house shape, the flat roof and parapet, the position and size of every opening, the street and the camera angle exactly the same." What followed it: the walls are now white smooth plaster, a small balcony with a black metal railing sits in the centre of the first floor, and two warm wall lights flank the front door. The flat roof, the parapet, the doorway, the two car porch openings, the sand heap and the street stayed. What differs from the prompt: the window openings are still empty, with no frames; the wood cladding went on a panel in the centre of the first floor and on the left ground-floor pier instead of above the car porch; and no canopy appeared over the entrance. Added without being asked: a new tall glass door in the wood panel behind the balcony, which is a new opening in the wall, not one of the existing ones. We ran this one once.

The same shell finished in white plaster, with a wood-clad panel and a tall glass door in the centre of the first floor behind a small balcony with a black railing, wood cladding on the left ground-floor pier and two warm wall lights by the door; the window openings are still empty — An AI-generated pair made with our own image model. The "before" is an AI-drawn stand-in for a photo of a house shell, not a real building. Edit prompt used: "Turn this house shell into a finished modern front elevation: white smooth plaster walls, a projecting first-floor balcony with a black metal railing, black framed windows in the existing openings, a horizontal wood-look cladding panel above the car porch, a thin cantilevered concrete canopy over the entrance, and warm wall lights. Keep the house shape, the flat roof and parapet, the position and size of every opening, the street and the camera angle exactly the same." What followed it: the walls are now white smooth plaster, a small balcony with a black metal railing sits in the centre of the first floor, and two warm wall lights flank the front door. The flat roof, the parapet, the doorway, the two car porch openings, the sand heap and the street stayed. What differs from the prompt: the window openings are still empty, with no frames; the wood cladding went on a panel in the centre of the first floor and on the left ground-floor pier instead of above the car porch; and no canopy appeared over the entrance. Added without being asked: a new tall glass door in the wood panel behind the balcony, which is a new opening in the wall, not one of the existing ones. We ran this one once.

A classic front with columns and arches

Not every front elevation is modern. This example turns a plain verandah into a classic front with round columns, arched window tops and a warm wall colour, and shows how the model also repainted the boundary wall.

Front of a single-storey cream house with a flat roof, two wood-framed windows, a wooden front door and a small verandah with a thin slab roof on two slim square pillars, behind a low boundary wall with a metal gate — An AI-generated pair made with our own image model. The "before" is an AI-drawn stand-in for a photo of a house, not a real house. Edit prompt used: "Redesign ONLY the front elevation in a classic style: replace the two slim pillars with two thicker round white columns with simple capitals, add a molded cornice band along the top of the parapet, add arched tops above the two windows with white trim, and paint the walls a warm sand color. Keep the house shape, the flat roof, the window and door positions, the wooden door, the boundary wall, the gate and the camera angle exactly the same." What followed it: the two slim pillars are now round white columns with simple capitals, both windows have arched white surrounds on top, the walls are a warm sand colour (closer to orange than the prompt suggests), and a white molded edge runs along the roof line, with a heavier molded beam over the verandah. The house shape, the flat roof, the window and door positions, the wooden door and the gate stayed. Changed without being asked: the boundary wall was painted the same sand colour as the house. We ran this one once.

The same house with two round white columns with capitals, a heavier white molded beam over the verandah, arched white window surrounds and warm sand-orange walls; the boundary wall is also painted the wall colour — An AI-generated pair made with our own image model. The "before" is an AI-drawn stand-in for a photo of a house, not a real house. Edit prompt used: "Redesign ONLY the front elevation in a classic style: replace the two slim pillars with two thicker round white columns with simple capitals, add a molded cornice band along the top of the parapet, add arched tops above the two windows with white trim, and paint the walls a warm sand color. Keep the house shape, the flat roof, the window and door positions, the wooden door, the boundary wall, the gate and the camera angle exactly the same." What followed it: the two slim pillars are now round white columns with simple capitals, both windows have arched white surrounds on top, the walls are a warm sand colour (closer to orange than the prompt suggests), and a white molded edge runs along the roof line, with a heavier molded beam over the verandah. The house shape, the flat roof, the window and door positions, the wooden door and the gate stayed. Changed without being asked: the boundary wall was painted the same sand colour as the house. We ran this one once.

What the AI keeps and what it may change

Use this as a checklist when you compare a result with what you asked for.

Usually kept: the house shape, the flat roof, the window and door positions, the gate and the neighbouring buildings stayed in all three examples above.
Often only partly done: one or two parts of a long list (no stone band in the first example, no canopy or window frames in the second).
Often moved or added without being asked: a material placed somewhere else than asked, a new opening, a boundary wall painted to match.
Always missing: dimensions, structure, drainage and the detail a contractor needs to build it.
Never produced: an elevation drawing, a plan or anything a permit office can use.

Before you build a new front

A picture helps you and your family agree on a direction and brief an architect or contractor. It does not tell you whether a box frame or a deep balcony needs extra structure, how the louvers are fixed, or what the cladding costs. Your local building rules may also set limits on projections, balconies over setbacks and boundary wall height, so check them before you commit.

If you already have an elevation drawing and want it to look like a real house, or a floor plan and want an elevation drawn from it, use the pages linked below.

AI picture, a drawing or an architect?

ArchitecturesAI. Upload a photo of the front, describe the design, get a picture back in minutes. Good for comparing directions on your own house; not to scale and not a drawing.
An elevation drawing. A scaled straight-on drawing with sizes and materials, made by an architect or draughtsperson. Needed to build.
An architect or contractor. The design, structure, cost and approvals for your plot.

Free tier and plans

You need a free account to render. New accounts get 2 free renders, and free renders carry a watermark. In India this site does not include free renders, so a paid plan is needed there. Weekly, monthly and yearly plans for more renders without the watermark are on the pricing page.

The houses on this page are AI-drawn stand-ins, not photos of real houses. The examples were run directly on the model, not through the tool above, so your own render may look different. Each example was run once.

Frequently asked questions

What is a front elevation design?

It is the design of the street-facing side of a house as seen straight on: the balcony, window frames, entrance, parapet, materials and colours. In drawings, an elevation is a flat, scaled view of one side.

Can AI design the front elevation of my house?

It can draw an idea picture of a new front on a photo of your house, so you can compare directions. It does not make a scaled elevation drawing or check the structure.

Can I use a photo of an unfinished house?

Yes. A concrete shell with its openings in place works, as the second example shows. Check the result closely, because the model may add or move openings.

Is this the same as facade design?

They overlap. The facade design page is about new cladding and colours on your house. This page is about the design of the street front as a whole: frames, balconies, louvers, columns and lines. Both use the same editor.

Can I turn an elevation drawing into a realistic image?

Yes, but that is a different page: see house elevation 3D render, linked below. To get an elevation from a floor plan, see 2D plan to elevation.

Why did the AI leave out part of my request?

The model often follows only some items in a long list. In our first example it skipped the stone band. Ask for one or two changes at a time and edit the result again for the rest.

Is it free to try?

Yes. After you sign in, a new account gets 2 free renders with a watermark, in Low quality. In India this site does not include free renders. Paid weekly, monthly and yearly plans are listed on the pricing page.

See a new front on your house before you build it

Upload a straight-on photo, compare a few designs, and take the best one to your architect or contractor. Your first 2 renders on a free account are on us.

Try a new front on your house photo