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Reasons to Choose Timber Cladding for Your Design
Consider horizontal or vertical planks to dress your new section?s exterior – Architectural Article by Houzz
28 Nov 2017
Choose Timber Cladding for Your Design
Adding more living space" Consider horizontal or vertical planks to dress your new section?s exterior
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Sarah Warwick, Houzz Editor
Timber cladding has been a favourite covering for houses over centuries. Choose it for the outside of an extension to a home already clad this way, and it can make the new part feel as if it?s always been there. More often, though, using wood is a way of distinguishing the addition from the original home, ensuring the extension is striking or making it visually lighter than the house. Whichever route you?re thinking of taking, browse these timber-clad beauties first.
Photo by Fraher Architects

Stay natural

Finished in slim verticals of Scottish larch that have subtle detail, this dining room and study extension sympathetically joins the house to its terraced garden. It has a wildflower roof, too ? an option to mull over if blending the new into the existing is high on your agenda.
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