Here’s one of the awesome things about design: it reinvents things. It takes the common and makes it uncommon.
I’ve seen a lot of this from Theresa who has done incredible things on both a large and small scale. I’ve also seen it on the 5 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition builds I’ve been on where the unexpected was the thing that gained the day. And while the most extreme case I’ve seen is the inclusion of a Southwest Airlines jet fuselage made into a family dining area, others are more modest—like entire interior walls clad in exterior siding.
So it got me thinking: If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times, one of the best parts of the roof on our home is when I can see it up close through the windows over our porches—from the inside of the house. I can enjoy the texture of the slates, the color hues, the shadow lines. It’s awesome.
Taking a page from the Extreme Makeover and Theresa design notebooks, it occurred to me that bringing that element I love inside would be awesome. So next time you’re on the hunt for a primo design, think about a feature-wall tricked out not with faux painting, but with DaVinci roof tiles instead. Offset the layout for even deeper shadow lines and texture.You can even use the color studio to customize your own blend.
The more I think about it the more hyper perfect this is for a man-cave, rec room, bar, commercial space. Heck, you could even detail a water feature with DaVinci or Bellaforte slates. I’d think about skinning the substrate with 1/4 plywood to hold the nails and about trim details around doors and windows. I’d also think about deep hues, super-weet shadow lines, awesome and inimitable texture. And about roofing reinvented.
