The decision
Two primary materials on the exterior, three at most — a stone base, a painted batten field, a dark metal roof — with every transition designed rather than trimmed over.
The reason
Every additional material adds a junction, and junctions are where houses fail and where they look busy. Spending the same budget on fewer, deeper materials buys both longevity and calm.
It also ages honestly. Stone and metal look intentional after fifteen winters; a nine-material elevation looks like a decade.
What it changes
The eye reads massing and light instead of pattern. Interiors follow the same discipline: one wood, one stone, one metal, repeated with conviction.
“Fewer materials, detailed further.”
On the record
- Exterior
- Stone base, batten field, dark metal roof
- Interior
- One wood, one stone, one metal
- Aim
- Fewer junctions, deeper detail
