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A measured elevation belongs on elevation. This page needs the wall you can already see.

Course

Color

Wall

Cladding reading

Course and color

What the wall must keep

Keep the openings

Windows and doors stay the same size and place

Keep the trim

Courses die into the casings already in the photo

Keep the roof

Cladding stops at the eave. The roof form stays

Siding

Siding

Cladding

Dress the walls you have in a cladding you can name

Lap, board and batten, brick, or a smooth panel is the change, and so is its color. Window openings, door openings, trim lines, and the roof form stay. The skin stops where the glass and the eaves already start.

New courses on the wall. The same holes in it.

Seven pictures of one skin

The course, the color, the trim, the openings, the roof, a corner, and a color-only pass each need a picture. Drop a file into the matching slot and the block fills.

  • Siding

    The direction of the boards

    Horizontal lap and vertical batten read as different houses, even in the same color.

  • Siding

    Color on a named material

    A stain and a paint can share a hue and still belong to different skins.

  • Siding

    Trim is the stop

    Casings, corner boards, and the soffit are where the new skin ends.

  • Siding

    Openings held

    Window and door holes keep their size and their place in the wall.

  • Siding

    The roof stays

    Eaves and the covering stay. Cladding ends where the roof begins.

  • Siding

    Two skins at a corner

    Front and side can differ if the joint lands on a corner board.

  • Siding

    Courses that stay

    A new color can sit on the lap the photo already has.

Course

The direction of the boards is part of the design

Horizontal lap, vertical board and batten, and a panel with almost no joint read as different houses even in the same color. Name the direction. Courses should meet trim at the same jambs the photo already shows.

Color on the material

Paint is the finish of the cladding, not a new facade

A stained wood course and a painted fiber-cement course can share a hue and still look unlike each other. Ask for the material first, then the color. If you only want a new paint color on the siding you already have, say the courses stay.

Stops

Trim, openings, and the roof edge stay put

Casings, corner boards, and the soffit are the stops. A new skin does not widen a window, move a door, or grow a different eave. Where two materials meet, the joint follows a trim line that is already in the photo.

The wall keeps its openings

  • Named cladding

    Lap, batten, brick, stone, or panel, so the next pass can repeat the joint and not only the mood.

  • Color tied to a material

    The hue sits on a course you named, so stained wood and painted panel do not get confused.

  • Openings held

    Window and door holes keep their size and their place in the wall.

  • Trim held

    Casings and corner boards stay the lines the courses die into.

  • Roof held

    Eaves, gables, and the covering stay. Cladding ends where the roof begins.

  • One wall at a time

    A front and a side can be tested apart if the photo shows one of them clearly.

Photograph the skin, then name it

  1. 1. Face the wall

    Use a photo where courses, at least one opening, and the eave are readable. Avoid a corner so tight that the wall becomes a sliver.

  2. 2. Name course and color

    Write the cladding and the direction of the joints, then the color. Note that trim, openings, and the roof stay.

  3. 3. Check the jambs

    The new skin should die into the same trim. If a window grew, this pass failed.

The skin

Dress the walls you have in a cladding you can name

Siding design changes the material on the walls already standing: board, shingle, masonry, or a panel you can name. Openings, trim lines, and the roof stay. If the result moves a window to make the courses look even, it is not a cladding study.

Name the module. A brick and a wide board do not turn a corner the same way. Photograph a corner if you can, so the return is visible. Paint is a color on a skin you have accepted. This page is the skin.

The facade page may recompose the front. Stay here when the architecture is settled and the question is what the wall is made of.

Read the page from four sides

  • The course

    Horizontal, vertical, or a panel. The joint is part of the material. Do not blur it into stucco unless you asked for stucco.

  • The opening

    Trim and the edge of the cladding have to meet the window that is already there.

  • The corner

    A material that cannot turn a corner is not a material for a house.

  • The roof

    The eave and the wall meet. Do not let the new skin climb onto the roof.

Where this page stops

The links below are the neighboring jobs. Each one keeps a promise this page does not make.

  • Exterior paint recolors the facade and leaves the material’s geometry alone.

  • Facade may change the composition of the front, not only its skin.

  • Roof is the surface above the wall. Siding stops at the eave.

Cladding questions

The skin of the wall: material, course, and color, on openings that already exist.

Will my windows stay the same size?

Yes. Openings stay. Cladding and its color change around the holes and stop at the trim.

Can I switch from vinyl lap to brick?

Yes, if you name brick as the cladding. The roof form and the openings still stay. Brick is a skin in the picture, not a structural claim.

What if I only want a new color?

Say the courses stay and name the color. If the material itself should change, name the new cladding first.

Do corner boards stay?

Trim lines stay unless you ask to restyle the trim as part of the cladding. The default is to keep them as the stop.

Can the front be one material and the side another?

Yes, if the photo shows the corner and you name both skins. The joint should land on a corner or a trim line.

Will the roof shingles change with the siding?

No. Roof form stays on this page. Take the roof to its own page if the covering is part of the test.

Can an opening and the eave be read from this photo?

Only if the frame includes the courses, at least one opening, and the eave. A tight corner crop will invent the wall.

Bring a wall you can read

Courses, one opening, and the eave should all be in the frame. Name the cladding before the color.