Love Black for Home Exterior? Read this 5 Tips

Onal Kothari

Architect

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Black is an emerging topic in built world. It is raising as architect's favourite choice for contemporary design styles which casts an eye on house exterior beauty. If you are the one planning to get some mysterious, modest and arrogant elevation at the same time, here are some ways to use black in your exterior by Architect Onal Kothari.

Textured Bricks
Textured Bricks offers an immensely versatile option that enables you to create structures that are not only durable but reflect a natural appeal. If you love building material in their natural form try some projecting pieces out of a regular running base or little arrangement carved out of some solid volume.
Tarred Timber
A long term maintenance free colour option, External timber cladding offers a sense of lightness and drama to any structure. The voids create sense of continuity with a consistent break ultimately creating a strong visual impact .
Corrugated Steel
A must have for people who loves industrial design. A house with corrugated steel cladding with elegant matte finish and white window frame provides best of trending contemporary architecture design.
Black Mirror Panels
Appear highly self-contradictory colour , Black possess potential to create feel of absence and presence in architectural design. Using black in mirror add visual appeal and can be used as high reflective surface.
Moulded Concrete
Folded concrete with black paint as the only choice of application provides a perfect black exterior. Something natural, something exposed, something unique, something black ; this material contains it all.

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Onal Kothari

Architect

Onal Kothari started her design career with commercial interior designing. She is an architect, blogger, traveller , urban sketcher and imaginator. She interned with Laurie Baker architects and worked for Avnish Singh Design before venturing out on her independent working. Started working on interior architectureÂ projects quite early in her career, she believes that all the designers have the perfect project in their mind and they follow it in every step of their career.

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