Can't wait to see the photos! I wish I could give you some advice on posting the pics, but I'm definitely technologically challenged. We talked to the contractor that does work on our MH--he said he could do board and batten, but it will cost more because it's more labor intensive than the horizontal siding. Apparently, they have to be on a ladder for every piece that is installed so installation takes longer. I guess that makes sense, but I never would have thought that the contractors would charge extra for the amount of time spent on a ladder! I guess they like to charge extra for everything they can think of.

Berkshire80, my windows were single pane aluminum inserts in the original wood frames, which where pretty beat up. Nothing to save there, so I ripped them out entirely and reframed the openings and put in vinyl with low-e glass. I resized the windows to standard 6" increments to save quite a bit of money. The inside walls (plaster!!!) are now a mess, but that will be fixed in "phase 3." For the corners just run the housewrap long a foot or so and tack it around the corner with roofing nails. It will hold until you get to that wall. I had one corner go like that all winter without problem as I sided a small area around the back door last summer when we replaced the roof, which by the way also had three layers of roofing on it. If you think three layers of siding is bad, try two layers of comp over cedar shingles. What a mess that was getting that off. Good luck with the project. I'm about two-thirds done. I should finish the east wall this week and that leaves only the north wall for the hottest part of our summer here. I started on the west wall this spring and worked around to the south wall. I generally only have the evenings and Saturday to work on it, so I tried to keep the sun away from where I was working as much as possible. I'll be very glad when I finish as this has been a real grind; however, the entire outside of the house will be new. Then I get to start on the inside.

I hated the dark brown aluminum trim that the vinyl window replacement company had used. The company that did our vinyl sided had a guy that was an "aluminum bending artist"! Our windows are not trimmed with fluted columns; he did an incredible job. It was a ton of labor considering we have 25+ windows in our house. Not sure if you can see it, but there is also dental molding at the roof line (our salesman's idea).

Agree with Kudzu, assume the worst and hope for the best once you remove the siding. We also have the original cedar under our vinyl (we think). To give you a head start, we got a single bid for the same thing. Plan to get a couple more. It would probably be a decent amount of work filling nail holes from vinyl, etc, and who knows what condition it is in. I assumed the worst and got a bid to replace with 3" Hardie lap on bottom 2/3 with metal corners and shingles on top. Was close to $20k (not including painting), and my home is 1400 sq ft in Seattle.