Actually I believe mightyaa is a regular here, and also a licensed architect... not a schmuck looking for free work.

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So, you’re recommending to leave as is.

Or burn it a bit more to even out.

I think that was NS's joke... It was burned. Basically the lightning hit above the entry. It heated up the copper plumbing enough to ignite the insulation... That took out a chunk of the front facade, two bathrooms, the boiler, laundry room, and the hardwood.

I know, I read your post ;)

One that's sort of appealing is that you can't easily get 1x12 cedar anymore.

It's not like I designed a 7000 sf house. I got this one for a steal as the recession hit back in '09. It's a true custom, and actually very well designed. Just dated and showing it's age.

It's worth the effort to make it a rainscreen.

Here's a example of reclaimed and planed lumber I completed over the summer.  It's an interior application, but the end product gave use plenty of thickness variations (1/2" to 1.5") and colours.  A vertical application, as Donna suggests in her pic above, works well on the exterior, and... given your finite material pool, a clever introduction of a new cladding type is a great way to spice-up the house's character.  Note that the wood in my picture (the species type escapes me ATM) used to be exterior cladding.

There is a school building done in the 70's with lodgepole logs, the south face is black now, just from UV - I worked on a house with cedar siding also on the south-west faces, all turning grey after 5 years. Little maintenance, the char acts as seal and bug repellent, you won't get yellow jackets nesting behind .

https://nakamotoforestry.com/ they might be able to use your boards

Stacking smaller on top of larger is classical and dates back to antiquity. Changing the shingle courses is a nice way to achieve this effect, too.

thanks for the links JLC I'll look at closer. Do you know if it's a "clean" product or like coretin where you'll get rust all over yourself?

coravent is good for wood siding, especially for vertical orientation. http://www.cor-a-vent.com/ Rainscreen lets your cladding do its job without being annoying for the rest (weather barrier, etc )

Shingles are unfortunately are already on-site ready to install. Standard composition shingles...

It doesn't stain - I guess there is a sealant applied after installed, if you want I can ask the contractor for that aspen house.

Shou Sugi Ban is relatively dirty if you don't wire brush the char off. Sealant works to a degree, but the char is soft, so any projectiles will probably remove the sealant. That being said how often will you rub up against the siding in a white shirt? It can also be expensive if you buy it from a manufacturer who's selling it as a product. I've seen contractors make it custom for projects with varying degrees of success.

Have specified Delta Millworks, but have never seen it make it to the project.

Yep.. I'm familiar with the cor-a-vent products. Like em better than the insect screens you normally see. My only concern with the rainscreen systems is if my boards are thin, I'm unsure if this will help or make worse the cupping issue.. Not to mention I've got a woodpecker problem already. I'm not sure if standing the siding off will make it more appealing to those guys.

Rainscreen will allow the wood to dry out, which should reduce the likelihood of cupping.

We're using the coravent as our battens, not just as insect screening. The contractors love them, we love them, and they'll likely help the building last longer than the old version (horizontal continuous wood battens) which caused the vert siding to prematurely deteriorate.

Always YES to rainscreen

looks like an international scout, the nissan 240z is nice though.

I thought that too, but square lights are throwing me off! Yeah that Z is great!

I, too, came here to comment on the truck. Nice truck!

Ya, the one in the photo is the Scout... but if you look close on the aerial, you'll see my '73 Land Rover 88 (pre-defender) at the sideyard.

Oh, the '80 scout is the last year and the only ones with square headlights.

it's not a 240z... It's a '90 300zx Twin-turbo.

Nice!!!

Wow! what else in your collection?

lol... so have I ...in several litigation cases because the vapor drive gets trapped behind the ice and weather and rots the substrate.

a shower head visible from grade? Love it. gold star sticker for you.

Nice work Erik!

Thanks, poop!

that is nice... I like the modern proportions.

The colors are really nice. Love the symmetry, too.

I was just about to ask if it was an open-air shower.

No one designs for life.

At least you have the option for less than 12/ sq ft

sure, it's an option but it's not that nice.

Hard to judge something you know nothing about

But I do.

You can also get steel fake log siding.

Steel log siding is real, not fake and it has a place in the market.

Funny, all those years working wood and I've never seen a steel tree. Where do they grow?

How do you water a steel tree without it rusting?

You guys are probably both tree huggers, out of touch. You don’t realize that steel is recycled and used over and over. But I’m sure you can both afford to kill trees for your house siding

It's much more environmentally sound to smelt steel and paint it with polymers than it is to grow trees.

Probably not , but waste not want not. Not everyone can afford real wood siding . Let alone the maintenance thereafter. Steel with a Kynar finish lasts a lifetime.

But it still looks cheap and fake. What’s your point again mr. Sales rep?

Nice steel shingles.

Quality edge tru cedar steel shakes

I was being facetious.

Meh.

Does it come in blue?

Any color you want, and real log corners are an option

You mean real log coners?

that corner detail is so bad... and fake log grain on metal cladding is just the worst. Terrible product for anyone that cares about design but probably an excellent choice for your average McMansion douchebag.

That's my groove baby! Fake log on a huge (not cabin) house just calls to me :P

Owww! My eyes!

To each his own

I believe the OP asked for suggestions. Cost-wise he could do one wall of his house at a time. A lot of classic New England houses have a combination of board, shingle, and stone siding. Steel seems weird to me - but to each is own.

He also mentioned steel, that’s why I posted what I did

Ya, due to the massing of jumbled boxes, I think I could change colors and materials. The only worry is it'll start looking like a tri-plex... (it has 3 front entry doors) At least the original architect did a good job of emphasizing the main front door using stone and a large stair.

I sort of hate log. Part of it stems from out-of-state architect's designing 'cabins' (6000 sf+ houses) in the mountains and using log everywhere as a finish... log has it's place, just not in a white collar suburban context, never on a structure entirely too large to ever be conceived as framed by log, and really not in a '70's-80's upper middle class neighborhood. No way will I do log.

agreed. actually working right now in one of those log-as -siding monsters.

not snobbery. most don't like pushy sale reps.

What are you selling?

Don’t sell anything, am just
a noble architect.

I’m not selling anything either, it’s just that I have installed every kind of siding there is over the last forty years. So you’re getting an educated opinion from and even more humble working man. And yes you are a snob

Joe, you own an Idaho based cladding company that pushes hard for this fake wood steel siding crap. Probably a big seller with those that don’t care or don’t know any better (hey MAGA is a thing after all) so don’t confuse your sale tactics for “opinion”. Asking for quality and authenticity is not being a snob.

humble adj. Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's importance.

Your definition fits no one here

Hey non I think I’ll upgrade you from snob to asshole

I'm already an asshole Joe, but so far I've restrained myself rather well. Stick to hawking your steel sheets to the suburban sprawl and home-depot discount crowd. Our standards are higher here.

So much for being humble.

Meh. The steel doesn't bother me; vinyl does. It can be done right and would solve my woodpecker issue. What I don't like that much is while the front facade is rather closed and flat, the rear is a different beast. Lots of in's and out's, balconies, large window groupings, and doors. That means a lot of corners, intersecting materials, and tight infill. The corners require a ton of coping, and there just aren't many really good steel siding guys around here that I've seen.

Careful now Rando, you risk being called a snob by the faux wood steel cladding salesman.

I think I'll risk it :)

That's a bit more my jam. If it's steel, let it look like that. Simple S board or flat seam.

Screw those Colorado winters!

Stone siding?

Looks to me like a wood-frame house with 3 or 6 inch thick limestone veneer siding. The projection on the left side of the photo with the larger stones may be a solid limestone wall from an earlier structure.

Ya, but I'd have to live between Dallas and Austin :P... btw; I am a licensed TX architect too and we have a office in Dallas, was there a week ago doing a project. But my roots are in Denver.

Left side is likely a later budget addition. Look at the cheap eave detail.

Oh, and thought about stone... I'd want real, not lick and stick. My foundation lacks a brick ledge. So it'd price itself out.

what is better, lick and stick faux stone veneer... or faux-wood log steel cladding?

I couldn't find faux-stone in steel but there are plenty of manufacturers of fake stone. We really shouldn't overlook EIFS here. Disney World, Universal and every other theme park is built out of the stuff. With a hot knife and some paint you can make it look like anything. 

Do they also do faux-steel in stone?

I've seen some old 50's stuff... basically a faux stamped tin panels in a beveled cut limestone. No EIFS... but stucco is extremely affordable in Colorado. And no one has mentioned a 70's classic: T-111 plywood siding.

No EIFS - what's the matter, you don't like black mold?

^all molds matter Miles.

I laughed... btw; already have molds in a variety of non-discriminating color ranges; white fuzzy, black, yellow.. I'm not biased. Nothing says DIY like regular gypsum behind the shower tiles. I also personally believe the baseboard heater also covered behind said tile was a neat trick... as was pvc supplies instead of copper or even pex. Oh, and super space saver life hack; skip the p-trap at the fixture and just do it in the basement before you tie it into the main. I dread every time they open a wall...

Miles - "I couldn't find faux-stone in steel..."

You'd be amazed some of the faux-____ shite that came up this morning while searching metal shingles. You know what's hard to find? Metal shingles that look like metal.

Atelier, I see you're late to the party here... but this thread was overrunned, for a short time, by some mom & pop faux steel siding door-to-door salesman. It was hilarious and he got all butt-hurt once we called his precious product shit.

Yep, NS, I read through the whole thing and got a good chuckle.