Tiling (think bathroom porcelain) the exterior of an extension

[Triggaaar]

We're building a kitchen extension, which will take up the entire width of the house. The sides of the extension will be in brick, matching the original house.

 

The view from the garden will be an 8m wide, 3.4m high block. Most of that will be sliding glass doors, surrounded by a goalpost shape of blocks (parapet roof, no gutters or downpipes).

 

We could render and then paint that black, or dark grey, but I fear the colour will fade various amounts in the sun. Instead I'd like to tile it with dark grey porcelain tiles. I did see something similar in a newspaper, but I don't have a copy any more, and can't find it online.

 

Has anyone else done or seen similar?

Does anyone have any advice they could share?

 

Many thanks

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Porcelain is great for outdoors 

render the block work whit sand and cement then tile Or you can even tile directly onto the block If the BW is perfect