Outside walls

So anyway.... outside walls, specifically.. the upstairs ones.

If you cast your minds back 50+ pages of this thread (!), right at the start I was blathering on about build with modern tech but I wanted it all to 'look' old a la Thai Lanna / Ayutthaya.

The bottom was going to be rendered block and painted, the top would look like wood, all being well.


This is possibly a bit ornate, but the right idea...



yeah...that's more like it.


More matte finish, don't want that glossy finish the Thais love...

One of the things that swung us to K.Pot was his ability to create 'wood effect' with building materials - the very thing i wanted.

Sure... I could have built modern and then clad it in wood, but the cost? OMG.. we did actually look at this and quickly gave up.

So K.Pot can do architrave detailing to create the appearance of wood - gloss finish, matte finish, painted, grained, bare sealed, etc etc.



this is actually mortar - not wood.

i have of course told him we will not be having a high gloss finish like this one (the client was v happy, apparently)

In general if he can create the pattern and appearance of the fist 2 photos in this entry, I will be pretty happy