Spanish revival style homes are influenced by Spanish Colonial architecture of earlier centuries. Spanish Revival is more ornate with stylistic detail apparent in both large features and small, such as intricately patterned tile work and wrought iron hardware. Elaborate tile work, applied relief ornamentation, and wrought iron grill work is used to create frames around doorways and windows, and is used widely as decorative accents throughout the house. Towers and columns are often, seen as are balustrades, cantilevered balconies, covered porches, and arcaded walkways.
- Typically low pitched roof
- Gabled and shed roofs
- Short
- No hangovers
- Parapet roofs
Materials
- Barrel mission tiles on pitched roofs
- Also used as accents on parapet walls
- Typically stucco finish
- Adobe
Colors:
- White
- Ivory/Buff
- Light earth tone
- French doors
- Typically arched
- Glass door combined with wrought iron details
- Bottom half has panels
- Dark wood
- Recessed windows
- Header and/or sill surrounds
- Wrought iron details
Shutters
- Typically dark wood
- Decorative hinge straps
- Small wrought iron details
- Board-n-batten shutters
Framed paneled shutters
Colors:
- Dark warm colors
- Natural/Nude
- Held up by wooden columns
- Typically with arcaded walkways
- Thick stucco columns
- Wood post with wooden beam
- Arcades serve as sheltered walkways
- Also serve as covered patios
- Match existing material
- Shallow
- No overhangs on eaves
- Decorative exposed rafters
- Brick veneer
- Stucco finish
- Painted metal flues
- Special treatment with moldings
- Small openings
- Made of pre-weathered zinc
- Copper or painted metal
- Decorative brackets and leader – heads
- Finely crafted
- Ornamental
- Wrought iron railing
- Typically 2-4” wood trim
- Match existing color or contrasting color
For a guide on type, style, details, and general design of Spanish Revival Style homes please view Pattern Book. The Pattern Book is only a guide and may change as construction proceeds.