Has your portico been rendered yet? Are you planning to post pictures? I hate our portico!!! Not only is it too tall but they have put the worst of the bricks on it (covered in stains). Thinking about going render or stack stone. Hubby is not sure about the render but he is useless at visualising these things. We are definitely going to cut the top of it off though as it looks really ugly from the patio looking out. Hopefully we can get that done this weekend. Would love to see how your house looks.
Yeah sorry - been extremely busy at work and adapting to life with a 4 month old! What a time to build a house
We'll probably just do coloured concrete - not sure at this stage though. Our portico isnt rendered yet - looking good though. We chose the contemporary facade but made quite a few modifications. One major one was that we wanted to 'lower' the top section of the portico brickwork - and remove all the corbelling for a completely flat finish. That way the top of the portico lined up with the top of the patio brickwork, and the bottom (ceiling downstairs) lined up with the patio. We didnt like the original contemporary portico because it looked too high and would let too much rain in underneath as a result.
It will be rendered and painted 'Surfmist' colour by M. Might stay that way, might not! Will depend on what else we do for landscaping etc and other colours/finishes and how it all works.
Interesting thing was that when we requested to lower the portico and remove corbelling detail the M drafties sent a not back saying they didnt recommend it cause it would look too 'plain'! I told them to get over it and just do it ... after all we are the customer and we are always right
Will certainly be posting more pictures - hope to get some more today or tomorrow and will post.