While a classic white shade is perfectly elegant, consider embracing your dark side with black exterior joinery to add a touch of dramatic flair to your garden room extension.
The summer months afford plenty of opportunities to get outside and embrace the sunshine and fresh air. For those looking to transform their home and enjoy their garden all year round, a modern orangery or garden room extension offers a bright and airy space to sit in and feel connected to the great outdoors.
Now, there seems to be a huge increase in homeowners opting for darker shades of paint for the outside joinery of their glazed extensions. It is hardly surprising when you see the impact they can make. People feel cautious of using dark colours, but they can create contrast and definition, which in turn makes your garden room or orangery stand out. Black lines act as a frame, showing off your structure’s architectural shape and enhancing its depth to create a modern look. By choosing blacks or charcoal greys over whites or magnolias for the exterior joinery, you can instantly turn your extension into a showstopper.
Just like any colour, black has numerous tonal variations to choose from; jet-blacks, dark plummy blacks, off-blacks, midnight-blues and dark pewters are all fantastic shades for exterior joinery. You will find that in bright sunshine, even the darker shades will take on a completely different tone, which can ebb and wane as the light outside changes.
Depending on your property, it could be that black just looks better with your home’s style. Many homeowners are finding that black joinery effortlessly blends in with a range of architectural styles, from minimal, urban buildings to period properties in the country.
No matter what colour you choose, using the right timber and paint is the key to a long lasting, low maintenance garden room or orangery that will look beautiful for years to come. Unfortunately, for a long time, dark paint was known to crack and peel due to exposure to the sun. However, by choosing a water based, low-gloss, microporous product that will create a protective barrier for the timber, your joinery will be protected against weather conditions, UV exposure and mould. Paints with more pigment content than standard high street brands will result in a striking exterior that will maintain its quality finish.
It is not just about choosing the right paint; the right timber for the joinery of your garden room will help to protect a darker colour. Specialists like Westbury Garden Rooms use materials such as Accoya©, which is an extremely strong and durable engineered timber. Accoya© is a sustainable timber product that will not twist or swell over time, meaning that your extension is stable and painted coating will not peel.
For those seeking a garden room or orangery extension that offsets their property, it is certainly worth saying goodbye to the traditional and embracing a new bold trend.
