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Dark Concrete House has Bright Contemporary Interior

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A bold L shape defines a courtyard-hugging house just outside the town of Santa Maria da Feira in Portugal.

Its rather curt exterior is entirely clad in concrete panels that are tinted a matte black.

By contrast with its dark concrete exterior, the interior has light golden pine and white walls and ceilings.

So the interior spaces are warm and bright.

The dark exterior opaque façade is black prefabricated concrete panels.

But warm wood lines a corridor that soaks up sun and contains the bedroom wing of the L, with the master bedroom suite at its end.

The interior edge of the L shape, opening onto the private courtyard, is fully glazed, while the street-facing exterior walls are completely opaque.

Its friendly sun-filled kitchen contains a nice surprise.

Part of that bright warm sun is bounced up into the room off an extension of the kitchen counter set right in the window, acting like a very deep window sill.

This hugely exaggerated window ledge makes an architectural contribution to the space as a whole.

The highly contrasting house comes from Portuguese studio Arquitectos Matos.