i think your tendering is beautiful!

You don’t have enough room around the garage door for stone - it would a tiny strip, and would look very awkward. Please rethink your plan. Maybe do a portion of the porch in stone and a and a po

As the previous poster pointed out there's very little room around your garage for any stone veneer. The other thing is that your entryway is fairly narrow, meaning that you could not add the stone bases to your columns without making the entry and stairs too narrow. The result is that very little of the stone veneer will be visible on the outside of your house. Further, the colors there work with the roof, which is not the same color as your roof. Not to mention that

AI has changed the proportions of your house. They always make things look nice, but often at the expense of reality. The right gable is smaller, the area around the garage door are larger, the eaves are longer, etc.

In short, your results are not going to look like the AI rendering. Before you invest the money, you should try to get a realistic rendering.

Totally just my opinion but i think the stone veneer has been overdone and can cheapen the look of a home, if it were me, i’d do a nice Hardie board and simplify the trim colors (esp on the columns in the Ai render) - the windows are black?

it’s a handsome house!

Hi, they are in Iron Ore color

In addition to the above unless stone os being used where it normall would (water table / foundation line) and ALL THEWAY Around a house, do not use it.

I totally agree with la-lagirl about stone veneer and if not done all the way around just looks cheap . The posts over done just simple no trim. I love the look of the windows in the rendering with those awful arched ones gone but one simple style siding for the whole house would be my choice .Stone when applied needs to look like it was needed for the actual build like a foundation for instance anything else does not work

Stone veneer for the columns' bases, not the rest of the house.

Hi Guys, thank you very much for all your input. I just want to get back to my question. I am looking for recomendations on virtical siding avaliable in Canada. Can anyone recomend one? There is seems to be endless number of choices. Please let me know

Vertical siding options for Canada - Maibec.Maibec siding options (Link)

Have a look at the available profiles. Most are available for horizontal or vertical application.

They offer stock colours but will also customize your order with any paint brand. BM, SW etc. And send colour matched nails and caulking.

Its an excellent product. We've used it twice and I wouldn't hesitate to use it again.

We are in Ontario cottage country - it is available across Canada.

In my post i suggested (james) Hardie board, which comes in vertical formats and is available in canada

I swapped out wood siding for the more durable Hardie Board, on my 2nd floor. Looks great and holds the paint well. The exterior on the main floor is stucco (I'm in So Calif).

On the front of my house, the installer chose the less expensive Azek trim, which looks like plastic to me. A few years later, I extended Hardie Board around the side and back of my house -- and chose the matching Hardie trim.

Hardie Board offers several styles, including board & batten.

I had the siding painted a custom color after installation. There is an option to have the siding pre-painted (in one of their available colors) -- this requires purchasing extra material to avoid running out. Also, there will still be some touch-up paint after installation; e.g., to cover nail holes.

I clad the bottom third of my front columns with bluestone, which I used as a veneer on my front sidewalk as well.