Vinyl Siding Design Tips
Designing with style
Architects & developers, designers & remodelers, builders and homeowners are specifying Super Polymer siding more than ever in their home designs – largely due to today's advanced engineering, quality manufacturing and focus on innovative design. Plus Super Polymer siding now comes in a multitude of colors that hold their bold color year after year.
Super polymer siding makes a statement on its own or in combination with brick, stone and other siding styles. Finding out what works best for you is an exciting process – all it takes is a little imagination and good sense of color and design. The results can be profound as you watch your new dream home take shape! Here are a few house siding design tips to help you along the way
Tips on Siding Profiles
- Clapboard, Beaded or Dutch Lap siding can be used as the main exterior cladding on many home designs.
- Dutch Lap siding, known for its deep beveling, creates a prominent shadow line for a dramatic effect.
- Narrow clapboard style siding, like Double 4", creates extra shadow lines to add definition and refinement to your home's design.
- Triple 3" siding, a classic style, gives the impression of three 3" boards. The narrow board exposure creates numerous shadow lines for an elegant look.
- Thermal siding such as Heartland's CedarMAX can give you energy savings of up to 20%.
- Board 'n Batten vertical siding, once popular on buildings from coach houses to cottages, makes a dramatic statement today for accent areas or entire homes.
- Rough cut cedar shake panels give the natural look of half-inch cedar shake, ideal for vacation homes or a rustic look on other home designs.
- Beaded siding with its rounded bead detailing, once a sign of affluence and fine craftsmanship, adds historical flavor and timeless appeal.
Tips on Color
Many traditional home designs, such as Georgian and Italianate, often used a light to medium color palette for siding. Today, we see many modern interpretations with bolder use of color such as reds, greens and browns for the primary exterior cladding or for trim elements.
Early Queen Anne houses (late 1880s) often used multiple colors to bring out design elements. Whites and creams were common after 1900. Victorian colors saw rich shades and bright jewel tones. For Queen Anne homes, the sky's the limit – and today's siding colors from Heartland give you all the color choice you need to make a bold statement.
On contemporary homes, we see a wide palette of color including more use of deep, dark shades for accents or entire homes.
A uniform look with matching side and trim colors can add a feeling of airiness and spaciousness.
A contrasting color scheme with darker trim on lighter siding or, for instance, white trim on bold red siding, can add impact and drama.
Tips on trim, soffit and accessories
Cedar shake panels or scalloped ornamental rounds are very effective on gables and other accent areas of the home.
Beaded soffit can add a touch of elegance to the home's design.
Innovative soffit designs, like Heartland's Woodhaven Soffit with its hidden AirCanal Channel Venting, add important ventilation to the home as well as timeless beauty.
