Identifying a property by its number is useful in many situations, not least if you’re a delivery driver or postal worker.

Given the need to number everywhere, it’s hardly surprising that there’s a wide array of different designs fixed to the front of homes and offices.

Here we take a look at a few of them, from traditional number designs to more contemporary ones.

Getting creative with numbers

The first design involves a hedge, and a hedge trimmer. You can probably guess what happens next...

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Some people may even wish to showcase their creative skills by producing signs themselves. Some broken tiles and a little concrete are that’s needed...

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Paint is always another option, as someone called Floyd cleverly highlights...

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Or maybe the house number represents an opportunity to showcase your nationality, as this homeowner (presumably Honduran) has done...

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Spotting your home in the dark can often be an issue, so lighting up the number is one solution. It definitely makes the house easier to spot...

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The other option is to really stand out from the crowd with a lot of colour. One thing is for certain, this number is hard to miss...

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Or just to go big. And we mean BIG...

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Colour coding is another option to give a property a personal touch...

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Or maybe it’s just a case of filling in the blanks...

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Regardless of how choose to display your house number, every post man will love a helping hand!