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Your home’s siding should reflect your distinct taste, uniqueness, and personality. It should be a glimpse inside your house and the life you enjoy in it. Siding style creates stunning curb appeal that adds to your property’s value, and it must be planned intentionally.
If you feel overwhelmed by the variety of style options, read on. We’ll take the mystery out of how to make your home uniquely yours while staying on trend with your siding choices. From texture to color and finishing touches, buckle up for a siding upgrade you’re sure to love coming home to.
Top Trends for Hardie Siding and Trim
1. Choose Stunning Styles
- Clean lines – Siding with a smooth appearance, like Hardie® Artisan siding profiles such as V-Groove or Square Channel, which make up the Hardie™ Architectural Collection. The sleek, clean lines these options offer deliver the modern look you crave.
- Board and batten – This popular choice looks stunning on your modern farmhouse home, and a variety of other architectural styles! It can be applied to your whole exterior or used in combination with another siding material—like stone. You can play with the width of the vertical planks (boards) and apply decorative Hardie® trim (battens) to complete the look. Apply this siding style to your second floor while going with traditional lap siding (Hardie® Plank) on your first floor’s exterior, or use it to accent dormers or other elements of architectural interest. This trendy choice is beloved throughout the U.S. and adds warmth and charm to your exterior.
2. Combine Memorable Colors
- Once-popular gray and white siding combinations are being replaced with bolder options as homeowners lean into vibrant color on their exteriors.
- While white remains a popular choice, blue siding is gaining popularity, and when homeowners prefer a neutral primary color for their property, pops of bright color on things like shutters and doors are being added to zest things up a bit.
- Green is now a trendy home exterior color, with Mountain Sage being Hardie’s most popular green hue. This versatile shade brings peace and harmony to your exterior, playing off the gorgeous landscaping that surrounds your abode.
- Contrasting light siding with dark trim delivers a crisp, trendy look you’re sure to love. And for those who want a timeless monochromatic color scheme, subtle variations lend the perfect solution and never goes out of style.
3. Indulge in Various Textures
Struggling to make the final decision on which siding style to implement? Maybe both of your top choices are the answer! Why? Because varying the textures in your siding creates visual interest, and what better way to generate texture than with two complementary siding styles on your exterior.
4. Merge Indoor and Outdoor Spaces
Extending your indoor living space to the outdoors by creating a seamless transition through sliding glass doors. This can give you plenty of opportunity to express yourself with your siding style. Extend a roof overhang from your house over your outdoor furniture to ground the space where you’ll gather with family and friends. Use siding on the ceiling of the overhang to create an “outdoor room” feel to this refreshing space. Or use siding on an accent wall on your partially enclosed outdoor kitchen.
5. Accent Your Home’s Character with Hardie Siding
Add depth and appeal to your exterior with the perfect combination of Hardie siding and trim.
Give a modern edge to your urban home with vertical planks (Hardie® Panel), or a rustic chic look to your ranch home with board and batten (Hardie® Panel and Hardie® Trim combined). Express yourself with Hardie® Shingle accents that mimic the look of cedar shakes (minus the tedious maintenance). Or branch out and indulge by expressing yourself with Hardie’s Architectural Collection. Consider Artisan Lap Siding and Trim that caters to even the most distinct taste. Add the finishing touch with Hardie® Trim and Hardie® Soffit panels.
Complement your home’s architecture whether you live in an eclectic bungalow or a sleek, modern new build. Let Hardie’s versatility harmonize with your house’s unique architectural accents. You can achieve timeless beauty or trendy style. When you choose Hardie siding and trim, you get enduring beauty, unmatched durability, and innovative style.
How to Select the Perfect Combination for Your Home’s Architectural Style
Observe Your Home’s Surroundings
When selecting a siding style (or two!), begin by intentionally observing your home’s surroundings. Lean into your house’s setting and let it inspire your siding’s texture, style, and color choices.
Create a Memorable Focal Point
Whether it’s your front door’s pop of color that puts the welcome mat out to your visitors, or the warm contrast of your shutters and trim—draw the eye to the focal point you’d like to create. Give yourself permission to do it with style and pizzazz. This is your home and it uniquely represents you!
Test Your Color Options in Various Levels of Daylight
Once you decide on a siding style and texture, choose your exterior’s hues and bring them on-site to look at them in real life. Selecting siding colors begins online, but it doesn’t stop there. Get samples of the palette you crave and try them on your home. Take a look at the color at various times of day to see how it changes in appearance as morning, afternoon, and evening light reflects off it.
Blend Modern Design Trends with Timeless Appeal with Hardie Siding
Don’t settle for anything less than your unique dream home. Get the gorgeous style you deserve with beautiful architectural accents and historically authentic details.
At Giant Siding & Windows, we are an Elite Tier Contractor within the James Hardie ALLIANCE, so you can rest at ease that your new siding will be installed according to the manufacturer’s high standards, positioning James Hardie’s amazing 30-year warranty to remain in good standing. Take a moment to learn more about the stunning James Hardie siding styles we install!
