The Terre Sainte Community offers plenty of building styles to base your home off of.  Take a look at some of the suggested styles below.

• Low pitched roof, extended eave overhang with exposed rafter tails, the use of brackets at gables
• Windows with divided panes in the upper sash and a single pane in the lower sash
• Medium to large from porches with heavy, square or tapered columns that may be full length or resting on a wide base

• Large front porch or wraparound
• Functional shutters, decorative porch railing, and dormer windows that increase interior light and living space
• Shed roof porch
• Gable front plan
• Minimally ornamental
• Exterior is typically faced with horizontal siding

• Simplicity, brick, stucco or weatherboard
• Large six over six windows, French doors, no dominant entrances
• Shutters attached with strap hinges on all windows and doors
• Full front porch

• Wide, flat, plain, design or pediment trim around windows and doors
• Full height porches with classical round columns or boxed piers
• Roofs may be front gabled or hipped, and porches may be topped with triangular, flat, or stepped pediments and/or wide, plain entablatures, often with dentil molding
• Building finishes are usually plain

• Neoclassical Revival buildings tend to be more ornate
• Fluted columns topped by complex capitals, friezes and entablatures embellished with garlanded or patterned carvings and massive porticos

• One or one and a half stories high
• Steep, sloping roof
• Large front porches supported by some form of column structure,
• dormer windows
• frame made of brick or wood
• functional hurricane shutters

• 2 – 2 1/2 stories
• Pyramidal, hipped roof, often with wide eaves
• Full or partial-width front porch with either classical columns or boxed columnar supports; wide stairs
• Offset front entry in an otherwise symmetrical facade
• Large central dormer

• Lake Charles has the most
  impressive Colonial Revival heritage in the
  region
• Within this category, Lake Charles developed its own variation of Colonial Revival style with the most distinguishing feature being a very distinctive paneled, slightly tapered square column