These 14 exterior home siding ideas will help you see just what’s possible in creating a lasting, durable, and beautiful look for your home.
Exterior House Siding Ideas
1. Clean Contemporary
Many people believe that a contemporary home must be sided in something equally sleek, but that doesn’t have to be the case. This clean-lined property uses a thin, horizontal lap siding to emphasize its planes and create a transitional effect.
2. Warm Roofing
The deep cool gray tones of this house siding is broken up by a warm, wood-look shiplap siding around the rooftop terrace, and on the underside of the soffit and roof deck itself, giving it an appealing visual contrast.
3. Traditional Charm
Architectural panels aren’t used only on contemporary buildings. This traditional cottage uses them as a decorative element beneath the roofline. Done in the same color as the lap siding and matched with the same white trim, it adds subtle interest to the home.
4. Beachfront Appeal
Beachfront properties need to match their surroundings in style and color. This home is sided in shingles from top to bottom, giving it a traditional appeal that matches its surroundings perfectly.
5. Trimmed Out Perfectly
Sometimes it’s not the house siding that’s the main attraction, but the trim that helps bring it all to life. This home utilizes both architectural panels and a heavy white trim to contrast the gray siding and give the facade a fresh, updated look.
6. Prominent Trim
Choosing one color of siding for your home from top to bottom may result in it losing some detail and interest. In these instances, using a bold white trim can help make your siding pop, giving it a polished appearance.
7. White on White
White can be very bold and crisp as a house siding color, particularly when it’s used over the entirety of the building, like this home features. The white-on-white look helps give this cottage a traditional, classic appeal.
8. Long Lines
This contemporary home makes a bold move by using two colors and sizes of lap siding moving in long, unbroken lines along its exterior. The warm, wood-look siding makes a welcome contrast to the darker, nearly black portions of the home.
9. Wood Look Siding
There’s something so welcoming about the natural look of real wood, particularly for villas, chateaus, and other resorts. This home uses a wood-look cedar shingle and lap siding in the same warm color to create a relaxing and inviting appearance.
10. Side By Side Siding
This property is broken in the center by a fieldstone chimney, which makes a natural dividing point for the siding as well. To the left of the chimney, traditional lap siding is used, while to the right, a shingle adds texture and detail.
11. Classically Cool
Sometimes less is more when it comes to your home’s siding. This property already has a lot going on with different roof lines and a large front porch. Therefore, a horizontal lap siding done in a cool, classic taupe keeps the property from becoming too busy.
12. Farmhouse Charm
When your home’s architectural style is both plain and defined, sometimes there’s nothing to do but to work with what you have. In this case, that means using a beautiful barn red to bring out the farmhouse-style appeal.
13. Porch Appeal
A screened in porch can be an attractive feature on any home. This property makes the most of this by trimming out the porch in the same panels as the windows on the rest of the home’s facade.
14. Towering Brick
The cool, slate-gray siding on this home gets a much welcome contrast in a red brick column in the center. The contrast between both the colors and the materials adds subtle interest without overwhelming the property.
Create Your Home Exterior Look With Siding
With the many ways that you can use house siding to complete your home or business, you’ll have no trouble finding something that’s just right. Whether you use cedar-look shingles or traditional lap siding, completing your home’s facade is easy with beautiful, durable, fiber cement siding.
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