I find the color and direction of the wood cladding with unevenly wide boards fitting because:
[*]it suits the proportions of the building body – horizontal could make the long side look very long
[*]a darker and somewhat less contrasting house blends more inconspicuously into the background
[*] – the house is at the end of a street, seen from there in front of nature, if I understood that correctly.
I immediately liked the vertical installation and especially the randomly mixed measurements, after all, the façade should also match the character of the builder, which seems to be fulfilled. Above all, I like the simplicity of the construction and the fact that it is just plain, rough-sawn wood. It was available in 20 cm width, so we had it cut into 2 x 10 cm or rather 13 and 7 cm, to get a mix.
However, I completely misjudged the coloring; I would have almost chosen it significantly darker. Such things are not planned long in advance but arise from the currently feasible possibilities. For example, we oiled our floors with Livos, and in the same store they then showed us a piece of rough-sawn wood that was glazed with Kreidezeit’s silver glaze. Although it seemed too light for me, I liked the fact that it only needs to be painted once. Since our construction was significantly delayed, these things are now happening in winter; however, such paint needs to be applied at warmer temperatures. Fortunately, I can paint it myself in the workshop of our timber builder, but doing it twice would be more of a burden on the business, which is why we stuck with the old Kreidezeit glaze. There is only this one color tone available. Actually, I would have preferred a darker shade, but now I’m glad it didn’t exist.
I also misjudged (or described differently) the material requirement; it is not "a bit more," as Kreidezeit states, but significantly more because it is rough-sawn. But… that’s how we wanted it.
and thus appears somewhat more modest
again… just like the builder
- the house is at the end of a street, seen from there in front of nature, if I understood that correctly.
Exactly so, and this statement actually came from the timber builder, who hadn’t known it that way before. He said, it stands at the end of the dead-end street, directly in the greenery, SO it fits :D. I’m not quite sure whether the neighbors like it or not, but I honestly don’t care here because we like it just like this. Sometimes I struggle after making a decision or get a bit unsettled; not here though, it looks good, really! I know it from Scandinavia, just screwing boards onto the wall, and it already looks nice, in my opinion an affordable, modern façade.
As a picture, here’s a close-up again, I can’t explain it but I like it exactly as it is, I like looking at it. These are exactly those things that you can’t explain (don’t have to) because they are absolutely individually different. That’s why I always advocate designing the house FOR ITSELF, because everyone is different.