Help with selecting siding color for new lake house
beachy05
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New lake house needs window treatments - please help!
Comments (14)Congrats on your pretty lake house! We used to have a cute one and I loved it, but the very long and frequent drive to enjoy it became tough. Anyway, I think lake houses call for as minimal window treatments as possible. Drapes on those windows in that style house just don't seem right. Instead, I'd consider less formal and more "lake-ish" café curtains mounted at the halfway mark under the six-light uppers if that would provide the privacy you're looking for when the curtains are closed. I'd put a Roman shade on the kitchen window....See MoreExterior Color Selection for New Farmhouse Style Home - Help Needed!
Comments (10)Coming from Chicago, IMO there is nothing worse than a house that has a muddy off color in the dead of winter against all that dirty snow Light Mist and Pearl Gray are meh! Select a color that has some real contrast to the Arctic White trim....See MoreNeed help with decor in our new lake house
Comments (14)think of something you love and make it a theme. you said this is a lake house. are there any beautiful photos from around that area? lake, trees, clouds, birds, etc? quaint photos of old buildings in the nearby town or anything like that? (like maybe by a local artist or something.) or like I said, you could choose some favorite family photos and have them reprinted to the right size, possibly in black and white. if the images are not clear enough to blow up, choose really wide matting. I love the look of a smaller pic with wide matting....See MoreDaVinci Shake siding versus Hardie Board Shingle siding for lake house
Comments (12)Thanks everyone, and yes, res2architect, we are only looking at Hardie Board and Davinci for siding; we have had large sample boards from DaVinci in hand for 6 months, though only small color sample boards for the Hardie Board. It is hard to compare in part because there are not a lot of images out there showing whole-house siding with DaVinci shakes (we have asked the manufacturer for more). We are really interested in materials that require less maintenance, and therefore do not want to do real shake siding; same thinking with the roof. That, and we are at the edge of dense forested dunes and do not want the added fire risk of real cedar shakes. Mark, we are still deciding on roof. Though originally designed with a standing seam metal roof, your words of caution last August prompted us to look at other options. We have looked at samples of several roofing materials, including the DaVinci roofing products and several "metal" shingles, but probably leaning more towards higher impact-rated luxury asphalt (e.g., Certainteed Presidential IR or Belmont). Since we are considering DaVinci siding, we would not want to use a similar product on the roof for esthetic reasons. In addition, we are required to install gutters as part of our runoff water management plan (environmental regulations with the State of MI EGLE in this particular Critical Dune location) and since we will also likely use heating elements in select areas, we have been advised by our roofer (and gutter) subs that this is more challenging (though not impossible) with a metal roof. The metal roof was initially more appealing because of its ability to shed tree detritus and snow, but of course that same snow (and ice) shedding capability is another potential concern and hazard (though that can be mitigated with snow guards). That, and metal roof would be far more difficult and expensive to repair. We are still waiting on final price estimates for both Hardie Board and DaVinci siding, but expect the DaVinci siding to be substantially more. I will share those comparisons once we have numbers in hand. Thanks everyone -...See Morecpartist
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