Well, thanks! That was fun. I can look again tomorrow if no one finds anything else for you, but here are two. Not perfect for you, probably, but may give you an idea. The first isn't shakes, but could be a similar effect. The second has only a wee view. Sorry.

OMG, thank you! How did you find them? I Googled and googled and googled...

Do you think it looks okay that way? the bottom one is what I'm going for in terms of color, i.e.: natural with white trim, bronze windows.]

also, Cyn, that bottom pic is actually quite similar to the section I'll be doing it on. Imagine that left par, which looks like a garage door in your pic, being a farmer's porch with a double glass front door, slanted roof like the on in the pic, no dormer but a skylight there. the section on the right in that pic is the part I want to do the board and batten with the shingles on. Mine also has a large window on the bottom, like in your pick, and then a single window on top in the center. Only difference is there is no roof overhang on my house.

I love that bottom one too!

Ha! I googled two story house with board and batten on upper and cedar shakes on lower story! Tons of photos, most of which weren't even close! Lots had B&B on top of brick though and it looked fine.

Anyway, I wish we could see more of that second one. I think I do like it. It is different than what most do obviously and that appeals to me. I am headed to bed (yes, even on the weekend I am in bed by 9-9:30-this is shaping up to being an awful year at school and we are only two weeks in-yikes). I will look more tomorrow if I see you haven't found much. I love searching for houses!

sweet dreams, Tibb

that's what I'm going for, sis, but not as orange. Right now planning on Nichiha Sierra Premium shakes in Hazelnut.

I think this is it. Not 100% sure.

Tibb, what color is your roof? The second pic posted by cyn has a metal roof which mimics the board and batten. I think that may be the reason it is so pleasing to the eye. Do you have concrete basement wall showing, or any stone on the bottom?

The Hazelnut looks really good too! It has a rustic look that appeals to me and it would look good surrounded by trees.

I love a metal roof, but it looks nice with the shingles as well.

Ugh, forget the roof, It's going to look terrible, but there is nothing I can do about it. the house right now is clad in red cedar lap siding, completely worn, black - it was not maintained at all. The trim is all barn red, which it's been since the building was built back c. 1880. The roof has three colors! It is asphalt shingling. One section is black; one if red, one is black and red. I do not expect it to look good with the new siding. the new trim will be white. Windows are bronze. But I figure I should go ahead and get the siding I want - and it's going to be the fake stuff so I don't have to maintain it - fiber cement - and eventually I'll re-do the roof. can't afford to do both right now. Just did my kitchen, remember! And I'm a lowly dog sitter. them's a lot of dogs to sit! Lol.

But the siding really has to be redone, walls insulated, rotting peeling trim replaced. I'm more into prevention than aesthetics, so I won't be bothered by the clashing roof. the honeybees getting in a wall again this spring was the final straw for me. this house is trying to kill me, but I'm not going to let it succeed..I hope!

The house has a cement foundation around the crawl space and fieldstone around the area where the small basement is. Remember, this house is 1880, so the basement is one of those small ones, stone wall, dirt floor.

Gorgeous. Ty, 4boys2. In pics, the more orange looks better than the Hazelnut, I think but IRL, it's the other way around. I can have it stained other colors through Nichiha and a company called Carolinacolors, but I've got to get the cost on doing so. I really want something somewhere between the Terra and the Hazelnut. Those are the two that come standard directly from Nichiha. Hardie doesn't have any natural! But with them also can be sent out to be done, but at what extra cost? Hazelnut isn't quite rich enough for my liking, Terra too orange. But if I have to choose between the two, I'll go conservative and go for the Hazelnut, I think.

Getting the roof done in the future may be good instead of trying to match now. Let's look at it as a gift. :-) But at the same time you might want to look just a little at shingle colors for your overall vision. Good luck, it is going to be gorgeous! Love bronze windows.

Tibb...I am trying to figure out siding for the new house we are building. I want cedar shingle but dh is afraid of woodpeckers. Not such a great experience with fiber cement in the past. Looked at two new houses in town that used LP Smart Side. It looks like fiber cement. Have you done any research on this product?

love the siding on the second house that Cyn posted.

ILoveRed, I did! My choice was to go with LPSmartside, in fact, because it is lighter than fiber cement and it can be installed like wood siding ,while fiber cement apparently requires special tools.

I ordered a sample (in the Canyon), though, and was very unimpressed. From a distance, it looked great but close up it looked like plastic. No go. I started thinking I was going to have to go with a solid paint color as opposed to a natural wood look, and the only color I would consider (I think!) is white, as in farmhouse white. I actually like the look of white lap siding with white trim and black or bronze windows so I wasn't too disappointed at all.

However, I went ahead and ordered samples from Nichiha of their fiber cement in Hazelnut. They sent sample of the Hazelnut, Terra (too orange), a gray, and primed for painting.

The fiber cement in the natural stains is really, really nice. Impressive, in fact. Nichiha and Hardie can both send your choice of siding out to be colored too if you don't care for their colors, no doubt an added expense. I'm not entirely thrilled with the Hazelnut, so Im actually about to call Nichiha and ask them what it costs to have an order colored by Carolinacolortones (Their sub that does it).

If you want a solid color i.e.: paint color, I'd definitely look into LP Smartside, but if you want a stain/wood look, I'd definitely go for fiber cement. I did stop by a house under construction which was a cream color and asked what the siding was. LPSmartside.

I'll be going with fiber cement, hopefully from Nichiha. MY BIL, who is a contractor, brought a panel of Hardie shakes by on Saturday. I definitely like the look of the Nichiha better. Weird thing is, the Nichiha is also 1/2" thick while the Hardie is maybe 1/4. that is a big difference, and makes the Hardie much lighter an the Nichiha much heavier, which is a pain for installation, no doubt.

I've read very good things about Nichiha, though, but Hardie is also a very good choice, I think.

We're getting the pricing now. Nichiha is @ $500+ for 120 sq. feet. BIL said Hardie is @ $4/sq. foot.

We have HardiePlank lap siding and shingles and it's held up incredibly well in the 11 years we've been in our house. I don't care for lap siding with fake wood grain, so we looked at all the options and for us HardiePlank won out. Ours is painted (both the lap and shingle siding) and to me it looks way more like wood than any other non-wood options out there. I don't have pictures, but there are lots of houses in my neighborhood with board and batten siding on the top and they look great!

Ty, for that, eastautumn. Good to know, on all accounts. If I go with a natural look, I'll do shakes; if I go with white, I'd do lap.

I have to decided if I want the boar and batten to be wood grained or smooth. I'm thinking smooth for the board and batten. I like the Nichiha wood-grain pattern on the shakes, though.

An added benefit to fiber cement is that it is pest and fire resistant.

We have just had the Hardiplank siding installed with the beaded wood look in Woodland Cream and really like it. Most of our house is brick but some was vinyl siding that we recently replaced. I do love the way it looks like wood.

I'll be so interested to see how your project comes together, Tibbrix. We have a 2-story garage with cedar shingles and need to re-side our house and I've been thinking about cement fiber board and batten. Not sure how to work the colors together (but right now my house is barn red so it can't be worse).

I won't miss the barn red trim on my house, lisa, but my shed will remain barn red. Blech. And my black and red and red and black roof on my house will look bizarre with the new siding, I'm sure. One step at a time.

It's a ways off. I have to also have insulating blown into the walls, and I'm only beginning to get the whole thing planned, organized, etc. Please come visit me in the poor house, if you would.

Tibb, it is going to look fabulous (from the 'neck down' anyway). Well, you'll get the roof done one day. I love the colors and what you have planned.

TY, OP. Just in the very beginning stages. Lol@ "from the neck down". Indeed. Oh, and ignore that crappy shed over there too!

Thank you for the information. This thread is very helpful to me as well.

Ilovered, not sure why this didn't register before, but what was your bad experience with fiber cement?

We love our HardiBoard. Most of the house is brick except for the garage and a small area between the garage and front door. We chose smooth since that actually looks more like wood siding-think of old clapboard houses. The boards were smooth.

Tib...we had Certainteed. Many boards cracked. The co replaced the boards. We paid for the labor to replace them. They didn't match due to fading. House had to be repainted. They provided a few buckets of paint, lol.

just a headache with all of the warranty issues. Then there was a class action suit that we chose not to participate in....yada, yada, yada.

I haven't seen the issues online with the Nichiha and have considered this brand as well.

lots of good stuff online about the LP Smart Siding but who really knows about that stuff in a few years. Gotta choose something sooner or later.