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11 years ago

So we are building a house and the contractor said we need to decide on exterior siding. We are getting Andersen windows and doors with a dark bronze exterior and no paneling on the french doors or windows. We have decided that we want to do Hardie shingle siding, we want some tone of grey and the windows will be trimmed with wood painted white. We have a creek lot and the yard slopes down. The contractor said that we need to find something to put over the concrete foundation because he cant do shingles in that area. I am stumped as to what to put there. A brick or stone of some kind? We don't want anything that will look tacky. Here are some pictures pretty much everywhere there is framing we want shingles. The framing is only on the basement at the moment.

Creek View

Side

Side-There will be a brick courtyard in this area.

Garage- Framing hasn't started yet but we plan to shingle the whole back side.

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Annie Deighnaugh

11 years ago

You could do brick, thin stone or you could have the nubs knocked off and have the walls parged...like a stucco finish which would be the least expensive way to go.

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worthy
11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
It looks like the blocks alongside the foundation were to serve as brick/stone ledges. Anything other than brick/stone you put on on the wall will have to account for them.
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Owen Edwards
Original Author
11 years ago
Does anyone have a house with shingling and a stone or brick they could share a picture of?
Owen Edwards
Original Author
11 years ago
Does a parge exterior mold? In our area stucco houses tend to get moldy looking...humidity and rain.
worthy
11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Hardcoat stucco on concrete will not develop the mould problems poorly done EIFS is renowned for. However, it will stain and in humid climates, mould will tend to grow on it. Architectural Digest once featured a home in the US south where the architect aged the hardcoat stucco to get exactly that look.

As noted above, parging would be the least expensive treatment. It will also look it.
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Owen Edwards
Original Author
11 years ago
I had this idea, what if we made a flower bed / retaining wall with a nice stone that would go from the front porch level and stay at that height to the ends of the concrete in the second and last picture. It would like it to have kinda rounded corners where it would bend to an end. I think it would introduce the stone well in the front and end it well on the sides.
millworkman
11 years ago
Yes but at the same time keeping a source of moisture on the siding full time if i am reading you correct.....
nini804
11 years ago
Most of the shingle homes in my neighborhood have stone on the foundation.