Are you lucky enough to be living in a period or contemporary red brick home? Well, when it comes time to choose a roof color ...

The original house had an unflattering rough dark brown brick facade with two equally brown garage doors. A separate consideration was that the street elevation faced east and hot morning sun ...

and paired with dark brown composite cladding that complements the tone of the brick. The cladding and the aluminium frames that surround the large windows are designed to termite-proof the house.

The architects modernized the existing brick house, created better relationships with the surroundings, and replaced the unflattering rough dark brown brick facade with a more elegant design.

Construction has begun on this dark brick extension to a Victorian end-of-terrace house in west London, designed by Neil Dusheiko Architects The practice behind the 2016 AJ Retrofit Award-winning ...