Residential

Front Porch in Crystal Quartz

Isle of Man

The finished front porch in daylight, sand-coloured Crystal Quartz walls either side of a dark red door The porch after dark with the lanterns lit and the gold flake sparkling across the walls The window sill picked out in darker bronze Crystal Quartz against the sand-coloured wall

Project Details

Location Isle of Man
Year Completed 2020
Client Type Private Homeowner
Project Type
Residential
Finishes & Techniques Used
Decorative Finishes Crystal Quartz

Best seen after dark.

A front porch done in our Crystal Quartz with gold glitter. It is very hard wearing and washable, which gives it a very long lasting and beautiful finish, and it comes in a range of colours.

Two of them are on this porch. The walls are a warm sand and the window sill is picked out in a darker bronze, with the gold flake running through both.

By day it reads as a stone-textured wall and the glitter only catches you when you come at it from an angle. After dark the lanterns light it from the side, the light rakes across the texture, and every flake in the wall picks it up at once. That is why there are night photographs here. It is the only way to show what the finish actually does.

Project Gallery & Information

The front porch in daylight — Crystal Quartz walls, carriage lanterns either side of the door, topiary in pots on the sandstone steps
Daylight — the flake is in there, but you have to catch it
A window sill finished in bronze Crystal Quartz, set against the sand-coloured wall
The sill picked out in bronze against the sand
The slate house number fixed to the Crystal Quartz wall, gold flake scattered through the finish A carriage lantern on the Crystal Quartz wall in full sun, its shadow thrown across the flake
Full sun, and the gold starts to show
A clipped topiary against the Crystal Quartz wall in daylight The whole porch gable after dark, lit by the two carriage lanterns
After dark — the whole gable
The porch at night seen straight on, both lanterns lit and the walls sparkling
Lit from both sides
The door and the Crystal Quartz walls at night, the leaded glass lit from within The house number and the wall beneath the lantern at night, gold flake picked out by the light
Close in, under the lantern
The porch after dark with the light raking across the wall and the gold flake lighting up across the whole surface
Every flake in the wall, all at once
THE FINISH ▼
The front porch in daylight — Crystal Quartz walls, carriage lanterns either side of the door, topiary in pots on the sandstone steps
Daylight — the flake is in there, but you have to catch it
A window sill finished in bronze Crystal Quartz, set against the sand-coloured wall
The sill picked out in bronze against the sand
The slate house number fixed to the Crystal Quartz wall, gold flake scattered through the finish A carriage lantern on the Crystal Quartz wall in full sun, its shadow thrown across the flake
Full sun, and the gold starts to show
A clipped topiary against the Crystal Quartz wall in daylight The whole porch gable after dark, lit by the two carriage lanterns
After dark — the whole gable
The porch at night seen straight on, both lanterns lit and the walls sparkling
Lit from both sides
The door and the Crystal Quartz walls at night, the leaded glass lit from within The house number and the wall beneath the lantern at night, gold flake picked out by the light
Close in, under the lantern
The porch after dark with the light raking across the wall and the gold flake lighting up across the whole surface
Every flake in the wall, all at once

What the client said

“Looks fab just rest of house to go now!! And then I know for another that needs doing!!”

Tracy Burchill, Isle of Man · May 2020

Finishes & Techniques Used in This Project

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