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How to Make Your Home Exterior Turn Heads

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SPONSORED CONTENT -- (StatePoint) Is your home’s exterior in need of a facelift? While an all-siding exterior can be attractive, using manufactured stone to complement vinyl siding will turn heads, for ultimate curb appeal.

Manufactured Stone

Manufactured stone veneer adds elegance and charm to a home’s exterior, calling to mind rustic country cottages and stately manors. When paired with vinyl siding, it offers a dramatic, earthy variation in texture that makes any style or color stand out.

Sourcing your materials from the right manufacturer will make all the difference. For example, ProVia artfully crafts its manufactured stone to replicate the rugged textures, shadow lines, and coloring of authentic quarried stone. Created by experienced stone masons who cut and chisel individual stones by hand, they replicate the look of real stone from unique geographic regions, reproducing undercuts, subtle textures and natural hues.

With many stone profiles, grout colors, and other options to select among, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by choice. As you explore your options, keep in mind that experts have identified these stone profiles as pairing especially well with siding:

Ledgestone, with its haphazard shapes, jagged contours and scraggy surfaces

Dry Stack, with its compact, tightly layered profile and sandblasted visage

Terra Cut, a coarse-grained blend of large and small slabs with rugged faces

Natural Cut, characterized by irregular and disproportionate slabs and roughcast veneers

Vinyl Siding Options

Nothing transforms a home’s curb appeal as dramatically as vinyl siding. Quality siding elevates your home’s exterior while protecting it from the elements. From warm neutrals to bold and vibrant hues, there’s a siding profile and color that suits any architectural style. Here are two eye-catching options that look beautiful alongside manufactured stone:

Shingle and Shake: There are few cladding options as distinctive as cedar shake and shingles, and few with as impressive an architectural history. Vinyl siding modeled after these materials, such as Harbor Mill polypropylene from ProVia, captures the authentic look of traditional sawn and split cedar shakes and shingles that have been featured in American homebuilding since the 1600s. Featuring clean grain lines with varying peaks and valleys, the look may be of traditional wood, but the materials themselves are moisture-resistant, durable and low maintenance.

Board and Batten: The use of board and batten vertical siding originated hundreds of years ago as a practical solution for covering the spaces between the boards on the exterior of a home or barn. Today, it represents rustic, handmade quality, but its strong vertical lines have modern appeal that can enhance many architectural styles, from popular Craftsman to timeless Victorian. Blending the look of classic vertical wood with the modern engineering of high-performance super polymer vinyl siding, ProVia board and batten siding offers the best of both worlds, and is commonly paired with manufactured stone to add distinctive accents to exterior areas such as entryways, gables, porches, dormers and build-outs.

For more home exterior tips and to visualize how different materials, colors and styles will look on your home, visit provia.com.

When it comes to choosing your exterior cladding, don’t be afraid to go bold! A blend of manufactured stone and vinyl siding is not only going to offer superior performance, it will elevate your home’s exterior aesthetic.

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