7610 W 24th Ave, Lakewood: Real Estate Photography for Katie Portenga
The morning we photographed 7610 W 24th Ave in Lakewood, the clouds were moving fast over the Front Range and the light kept softening and coming back across the navy brick. Every few minutes the warm wood soffit along the roofline would catch a little glow, and the whole front of the house seemed to settle into itself.
This is a single story ranch with a clear point of view. Dark painted masonry, honest wood, big windows and a handful of carefully chosen patterns. My job was to slow down long enough to let each of those decisions read on its own.
Navy Brick and a Warm Wood Edge
From the street the house reads as one long, low line. The brick is painted a deep navy, and the fascia and soffit are finished in a warm wood tone that runs the full length of the roof. A wood entry door with warm metal house numbers sits under the porch, framed by a river rock bed planted with low grasses and lit by small path lights.
That rock and grass approach makes sense here. Denver Water estimates that irrigation accounts for roughly half of the water a single family home uses, and gravel, rock and drought tolerant planting are the backbone of the xeriscape gardens that have become part of the Front Range look. It also gives the facade a calm, textured base to sit on.
Cedar as the Room’s Quiet Anchor
Inside, the living room is wrapped on one side by tall picture windows, and the opposite wall is clad in knotty cedar planks with a linear fireplace and a black mantel. I framed it straight on so the grain and the horizontal lines could do the work.
Wood wall paneling is having a real moment in 2026. Designers describe it as a way to add texture and dimension without competing with the art and furniture in a room, and today’s versions are lighter and more architectural than the paneling many of us grew up with. Here it brings the warmth of the exterior trim indoors and gives the soft daylight something to hold onto.
A good room tells you where to sit before anyone says a word.
A Kitchen Built Around a Beam
The kitchen opens off the living area under a heavy exposed wood beam. The island is clad in the same warm wood, topped with a bright white counter, and wood cabinets line the back wall beneath a black chimney hood. A wire cage pendant hangs over a small round table by the windows.
Kitchen designers are leaning into exactly this kind of mixed material layering this year, pairing natural wood with smooth, clean surfaces so the room feels grounded and personal. In the frame, the beam acts like a lintel, and your eye passes under it toward the light.
One Wall of Pattern
Behind the range, the backsplash turns into a single, confident statement: black tile with a fine geometric starburst line, rising floor to ceiling in the corner with two floating wood shelves. A glass and black canopy hood floats in front of it.
What I appreciate is the restraint. The pattern lives on one plane and everything around it stays quiet, which lets the graphic tile feel intentional. It is the kind of detail that photographs best close and level, so I gave it its own frame.
Navy Herringbone and Brushed Gold
The bath picks up the exterior color in glossy navy tile laid in a herringbone pattern, with a brushed gold faucet over a white basin and a slatted wood vanity below. The floor is a patterned cement look tile.
Herringbone remains one of the most enduring tile layouts because it creates movement from a simple brick shaped tile, and richer, more saturated colors are pushing past the all white bath in 2026. Against that deep blue, the gold and the warm wood read almost like candlelight.
The Back Door and the Evening
Out back, the navy brick continues around a concrete patio with a wood door, a small window and a wood clad hot tub with built in steps. It is a simple, private outdoor room, the kind of place where a Colorado evening can stretch a little longer than planned.
Houses like this one remind me that good design is often a series of small, consistent choices. Navy and warm wood outside, cedar and navy inside. When the palette holds, the whole house feels like it is breathing at the same pace, and the photographs only have to listen. For agents bringing a home like this to market, that consistency is what Lakewood real estate photography should protect and amplify.
Photographed for Katie Portenga in Lakewood, Colorado, as part of our Front Range real estate photography.
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