Your home’s exterior should reflect your personal style and leave a lasting impression. That’s why it’s worth considering how different siding styles can enhance your home’s overall look. When planning your siding replacement, you’ll boost curb appeal by choosing a design that complements your home’s architecture and showcases its unique features.
Let’s take a look at some beautiful options that can help you choose a siding style you’ll love coming home to—and enjoy for years to come.
Know Your Options: Siding Styles
Embrace Traditional Lap Siding
The beauty and simplicity of horizontal lap siding is always a safe choice. It works well with multiple architectural styles, looks timeless, and is a smart option when you’re keeping resale value in mind as you plan your siding style.
Branch Out with Vertical Siding
Modernize your home in a flash by installing contemporary vertical siding panels that set your house apart. They make your abode appear taller and more structured. Vertical panels are particularly well suited for the clean aesthetics of modern homes, the charming dimensional look of farmhouses, and the authentic feel of rustic or traditional designs like the Cape Cod style.
Express Yourself with Board and Batten Siding
When you begin with vertical siding and cover the seams with trim, you’ve got gorgeous board and batten siding. This exquisite style is ideal for Craftsman, Coastal, Traditional Colonial, Modern Farmhouse style homes, and more. Its varied texture adds warmth, character, and a clean aesthetic, making it a timeless selection. It can be customized with colors, materials, and your choice of a variety of widths of siding panels to get the perfect look for your home.
Mix and Match Siding Styles for the Ideal Blend
Why not install different siding styles to accent unique design elements of your home? Roof gables are an attractive accent in a variety of architectural styles. They give you the prime opportunity to experiment with a siding design that’s different than the body of your home. If you live in a modern farmhouse style home, consider rustic-chic board and batten style siding (by James Hardie) for the bulk of your exterior. Then add contrast by highlighting your gables with Hardie® Shigles.
Understand How Siding Material Choices Impact Style
Durable Fiber Cement
James Hardie siding and trim give you a variety of siding styles to choose from, including Hardie® Plank, Hardie® Panel, Hardie® Shingle, Board and Batten, Hardie® Trim, and Hardie® Soffit. This long-lasting siding material is engineered to withstand high winds, heavy rain, snow, and more. This non-combustible siding’s pest resistance, moisture resistance, and long lifespan (50 plus years!) make it one of America’s favorites. Just ask the 8 million homeowners across the nation why they chose this siding material, and you may just join them!
Fiber cement can mimic the look of wood siding beautifully, but is low maintenance. You’ll be amazed at how this siding maintains its vibrant color and integrity over the years, leaving your home looking gorgeous for decades.
Affordable Vinyl
Cost-effective vinyl offers you a low-maintenance siding option loved by many. Choose from a wide variety of colors, styles, and designs to customize your exterior to your heart’s content. While vinyl doesn’t last as long as fiber cement and will need more maintenance, it offers a great solution for first-time homebuyers, investment property owners, and more. Vinyl never needs painting, making it a simple solution for those who appreciate easy upkeep. Just be aware it may be prone to cracking in extreme cold and can melt if exposed to high heat (so keep your grill at bay!).
Charming Wood Siding
Homeowners who choose wood siding do so for its natural beauty and character. If offers versatility in design, exceptional insulation (which leads to energy savings), and can increase a home’s aesthetic appeal and value. While it requires more maintenance than fiber cement or vinyl, the people who love wood are willing to make the investment of time and money to preserve their siding. Regular painting or re-staining is a must to keep water from penetrating wood siding, so if you’re ready for that—then this is a viable option to consider.
Tips on Selecting Your Siding Style
Add Character by Incorporating Two Siding Styles in Your Exterior Design
At the end of the day, if you’re on the fence about more than one siding style, the good news is that you don’t have to stick with just one style for your home’s siding and trim. Selecting a variety of textures can add visual interest and showcase the unique architectural elements of your house. It can feel overwhelming to try bold styles on your whole home, but sprinkling them in to add character is a great solution.
Align Your Choices with Your Home’s Architecture
- Traditional homes like Colonial, Craftsman, or Victorian look fabulous with classic siding choices like horizontal lap siding made of fiber cement, or a combination of brick and horizontal siding.
- Modern homes can accommodate sleek materials with clean lines like vertical fiber cement panels or contemporary vinyl profiles.
- Farmhouse and rustic homes look amazing in board and batten siding made of fiber cement or simply vertical fiber cement panels.
Try Before You Buy
Try different siding styles and colors on your home before you commit. How? At Porter Family Exteriors, with our 3-D tool, you can conveniently design your home exterior with new siding, trim, and accessories to try on the new home style you’ve dreamed of. Or, you can use a design visualizer tool like the Hardie™ Designer, powered by Hover.
Get the Perfect Look for Your Home with Gorgeous New Siding
Feeling unsure of where to begin? No problem. At Porter Family Exteriors, with over 100 years of combined experience perfecting our skills and techniques, we provide quality assistance in design options, and workmanship you can rely on. For more information, learn more about how our beautiful siding replacement options can bring out the beauty in your home.
