{"id":56,"date":"2026-08-08T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/2026\/08\/08\/timber-stone-or-brick-choosing-materials-that-age-well\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:06:50","slug":"timber-stone-or-brick-choosing-materials-that-age-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/2026\/08\/08\/timber-stone-or-brick-choosing-materials-that-age-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber, stone or brick: choosing materials that age well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Materials that look perfect on handover day are not always the ones that look best in twenty years. We choose for the long view.<\/p>\n<h2>Timber<\/h2>\n<p>Untreated cedar and larch silver gracefully; painted timber needs repainting every few years. Detail it to shed water and it will outlast most claddings.<\/p>\n<h2>Stone<\/h2>\n<p>Local stone suits its landscape, weathers slowly and needs almost no maintenance. It costs more up front and less over the life of the building.<\/p>\n<h2>Brick<\/h2>\n<p>Reclaimed brick brings instant character and a lower carbon footprint. Lime mortar lets walls breathe and makes future repairs easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials that look perfect on handover day are not always the ones that look best in twenty years. We choose for the long view.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-interior-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}