Gables With Siding

Complete your ideal modern rustic farmhouse style.

Gables with siding.

This home features a blue lap siding in this area that contrasts the rest of the colors and materials easily accomplishing its goal. Siding gives your home personality and can be as much a part of its architecture mood and style as front porches and gables. The building layout allows you to place doors or windows on any wall of the building giving you more. You may be thinking that boy this house would look better if the decorative shingles were in a different color.

This classic craftsman uses traditional clapboard siding on the body of the home and cedar impressions double 7 straight edge rough split shakes to highlight the dormers and gables over the front porch. Notice how the gable siding transitions to the body siding so smoothly while the horizontal trim connects with the house so nicely. Multiply the square footage of the gable area of 72 sq. Clad in low maintenance siding the distinctive exterior has plenty of street appeal with its columned porch multiple gables shutters and interesting roof lines.

Divide this by the board length of your siding 123 43 12 10 29 ideally without any waste it would take 10 and one third lengths of boards to cover this gable. By this amount and this will give you the lineal feet of siding needed to cover the gable 72 1 743 123 43 sq. Other exterior highlights included trusses over the garage doors horizontal lap siding and brick and stone accents. A straightforward open design allows you to store large lawn equipment and patio furniture with ease.

Nov 18 2018 explore sudie elder s board house gables on pinterest. With a contemporary roof design the gable is a natural fit in any modern landscape. A simple siding calculator that will calculate the amount of siding in lineal feet needed to cover a gable. The color was kept consistent so the distinction is subtle but the final result is impactful.

It can highlight complementary colors and materials and transform a house that was once invisible into a real head turner. Gable shed the contemporary backyard storage solution. Well if you look on the left side 2nd floor you will see there are also decorative shingles there. Since the prominent gable is so important to the farmhouse design switching the color and style of the siding below the gables helps to make them stand out.