google " Hardie shake samples near me"

The Hardie colors are very regional........as is the availability of product.

Can you not paint what you have?

i could paint or stain what I have, probably 75% of it needs replacing of it needs to be

Not sure why your shakes are in such bad condition. Cedar is resilient because of the oil content in the shakes. I'm hoping that they were not painted.

Cedar doesn't like paint because paint is acrylic and seals in any moisture that reaches the wood. Cedar should be stained when necessary. There are transparent and semi opaque stains available, but they allow the cedar to breath.

Applying stain to cedar allows the lights and the darks of the wood shingle to be seen through the stain and makes the house mire interesting visually.

If you go with Hardie shakes the material is concrete the paint will produce a fairly flat appearance.

Waht are the 2 pics showing is one your house ? Why shake at all this time ?

" it's cedar shake - thinking about hardie shake, how do I make that decision ? "

Get pricing on both. Sit down and figure which you can afford. Hardie Shakes will be very expensive and quality Cedar shakes will be stupid expensive.

The two choices will give you different looks. Take that into consideration as well. If it’s a beach house, you need to,protect the exterior from the elements s much as possible.
Nantucket is full of cedar shake houses that fade, but withstand the elements.

Cedar untreated, and God Bless the necessary salt air that gives it the look everyone wants: ) in Nantucket or Matha's Vineyard. Send in the climbing roses too,.!