Slates for your home: 5 trendy roofs and facades
How do you give your home the perfect look? You want it to reflect your personality, but at the same time, it should stand the test of time. Fibre-cement slates and boards offer a beautiful, yet durable solution to protect your home from even the harshest weather conditions.
Cedral has everything you need for your roof or facade. Choose the colour, type, pattern and size to make your house stand out. Cedral's lightweight fibre-cement weatherboards and slates are the ideal material for any renovation or newbuild. Get inspired by these 5 creative and aesthetic examples and the unlimited design possibilities of our fibre-cement materials.
Design with contrast
Contrast makes different parts of your home stand out. In this example of a single-family home in Geldrop, the Netherlands, the dark, smooth surface of the fibre-cement slates contrasts nicely with the large glass surfaces. Clear geometric shapes and transparency determine its external appearance, and the roof, by contrast, appears to be floating.
The 60/32 smooth blue-black slates on the roof are laid in a Linum pattern. This gives the building a modern straightforward appearance with an explicit horizontal elegance. As the fixings remain hidden, you get an uninterrupted look and feel. This makes large roof areas contrast nicely with the rest of the volume of the house. By the way, the Linum pattern can also be used to apply your facade cladding.
Discover more Linum designs at Cedral.world.
Roof merges into the walls
One of the advantages of fibre-cement slates is that they can be used for your roof as well as your facade. In this dwelling in Schaffen, Belgium, the dark grey Boronda fibre-cement slates of the roof continue onto the façade, as if it were one surface. This uniform building envelope in one piece completely changed the character of an old property. At the same time, during the renovation works, large openings were created in the outer skin to let the light in.
Besides the one-piece look, another novelty was the discreet integration of Solesia photovoltaic slates. They seamlessly fit in with the smooth-surface of the Boronda slates. You wouldn’t even notice that the roof is a green powerhouse. Cedral offers a warranty of 30 years on Boronda’s intrinsic qualities, 15 years on homogenous and consistent ageing and 10 years against the appearance of lichens.
Discover more Boronda designs at Cedral.world.
Balanced architecture
The use of small-format fibre-cement slates for facades and roofs gives a house a homogeneous appearance. It is like pixelated images or pointillist paintings: from a distance they form a smooth whole, whereas you can admire the beauty of the detail up close.
In this example with an unconventional roof structure and separate volumes, the carefully placed fibre-cement slates create a smooth continuity, even around the windows or at the transition from the facade to the roof. This generates an impression of structure and calmness.
Discover more façade and roof design examples at Cedral.world.
Traditional effects, modern style
Fibre-cement slates are so versatile that you can use them to adorn traditional buildings, to create modern effects or both. This example combines the best of both worlds. On the one hand you can see the traditional effect of inverted formwork on the roof parts. The facades however are clad with smooth fibre-cement sidings that give the building a modern touch.
By choosing a similar dark grey colour for both the traditional roofing in fibre-cement slates and the weatherboards of the façade, the building forms a unity despite the mix of traditional and modern. Colour-contrasting window frames create living elements in the facade. Cedral offers a variety of slates and sidings in similar colours to create stylish effects like in this example.
Discover more matching colours at Cedral.world and ask your free sample today.
Traditional effects, modern style
Fibre-cement slates are so versatile that you can use them to adorn traditional buildings, to create modern effects or both. This example combines the best of both worlds. On the one hand you can see the traditional effect of inverted formwork on the roof parts. The facades however are clad with smooth fibre-cement sidings that give the building a modern touch.
By choosing a similar dark grey colour for both the traditional roofing in fibre-cement slates and the weatherboards of the façade, the building forms a unity despite the mix of traditional and modern. Colour-contrasting window frames create living elements in the facade. Cedral offers a variety of slates and sidings in similar colours to create stylish effects like in this example.
Discover more matching colours at Cedral.world and ask your free sample today.