Rendering just the back of a house?

[edwardo]

Hello all

I'm of the opinion that single story extensions out into the garden don't necessarily have to match the rest of the house. People put Georgian conservatories on modern houses, use different tiles to those on the main roof, build orangeries on new builds, attach modern cubes to Victorian houses etc etc.

I'm hoping to build something like this:

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• edwardo
• 15 Apr 2013
• 1

but I don't want to use the modern reproduction London yellow stock brick my house is built out of to build the extension. It would look awful to have two different bricks meet, so I thought rendering the rear of the house would created a blank(er) canvass on which to hang an extension like the one shown above.

What do you all think?

Thanks,
Edward.

 

[dann09]

Perhaps it's just me, but I dont understand what you want? Why not post a pic of the rear of your property, and we could take it from there.

 

[edwardo]

Ok, I'll cut out the waffle.

The walls of my house are made of ugly yellow brick and slate. I'd like to put a single storey extension on the back of the house, but I don't really want to use more of the same ugly brick. I thought that if I rendered the back of the house white, I'd be able to use a more appealing brick for the extension. Without the render, using a different brick would just be an unsightly mis-match.

So my question is - what do people think of this idea?

It's dark outside, so I can't provide photo of house, but hopefully this post explains my idea more clearly.

Thanks,
Edward

 

[limerockconstruction]

In honesty the decision is entirely yours - if you want to do it, go for it, you have to live with it.

As a bricky, I'd have to say that the brickwork would have to be quite bad for me to want to render it though, much more interesting than render. IMHO