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We have recently purchased this house and it is in desperate need of some curb appeal. It currently has raw (and dark staining from sun) cedar vertical siding with forest green metal window cladding, door cladding and fascia.
All ideas are on the table for us, but if possible we would like to keep the green metal cladding alone for now. It will be expensive to re-clad and have seen a lot of issues when people try to paint that with the endless peeling and bubbling....
I’m not sure what you can do with this. It’s a natural wood contemporary. I like the dark green windows and accents. The only thing I can think of is replacing the cedar vertical siding with cedar shakes. It would add more texture to the flat cedar wood expanses on the house. You could even get a little fanciful on the front with shingles by incorporating an interesting shingle design on a prominent portion of the front facade. I’d check out various websites for idea. Some links to consider below. Jay
Why cover or alter the cedar, it’s a great surface for a house but getting a finish that will last for 5 or 6 years can be a challenge if not done properly.
I would have it power washed and treated with a wood prep/cleaner and then have it prepared and sealed with a semi-solid exterior wood stain by a good painting contractor. Cedar is a great siding material, however it needs to be properly maintained.
Architecturally, it’s a contemporary style house and vertical board siding is a perfect choice in completing the character of the house and design, IMO!
I would stain the faded cedar. Light to medium in darkness, so just a little darker that how it looks now. Keep the green trim. Put 2 or 3 large potted plants at the top of the driveway to cover the uneven concrete and base trim. Everything else looks nice.
The green is waaaaaaaay toooooo bold for me! And cladding can be painted; and it can last a long time if done properly- and with the right paint.
I don't have a problem with green- it's just not the "right green"! A "black green" would work well with the siding, like BM's Black Forest Green
The siding just needs cleaned, brightened, stained and sealed.
But, I'm really scratching my head on why would you take half a driveway to expand a house and leave a garage inaccessible to cars!???
The 40's delivery truck next door is quite the eye-catcher!
I’m guessing that the garage in back was originally for the house next door. It looks to me like the lot for this house was subdivided off the lot for that house and the garage was just left back there. Jay
Thanks for everyone's input. I had a couple painters come and quote the job in the summer and the consensus was the if we tried to paint the cladding, it would blister and peel and we would be touching it up forever....
We were considering putting rock over the bottom 2 feet instead of the uneven parging... We were also going to remove some the beams on the outside of the house, the ones on the top by the roof are real and structural, but the vertical ones and the ones coming out of the lower level are FAKE! Think of trimming the top ones to just under the gutters and remove all the fake ones - that will get rid of a lot of the green too...??
The house was built it 1910 and was a one story, half the width and the garage was fine, then it had a major addition in 1980 added and that blocked off the garage. There are a lot of really crazy things with this house... but that is OK, we probably could not have afforded it if it wasn't bizarre... lol. We bought it last summer and the front facade was always out of favor with us....
I see no reason to add another element to the house (stone)- will just make it more "busy" than it already is!
I think the painters are just lazy and don't want to put the effort in to properly preparing, priming, and painting the cladding (correct materials, paint, primer). You did say "metal", so I'll assume it's aluminum.
Is this house really in BH, Cali? I know there's some eclectic stuff there, but...wow!
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