Blending Siding Addition With Brick Exterior

While your addition s exterior design is important in tying its look in with the rest of the house you also want its interior to blend.

Blending siding addition with brick exterior.

Blending a non brick addition on a brick home. Our existing brick is no longer made the manufacturer is no longer in business. Due to cost we are using siding on the addition instead of brick to match the exterior. Our contractor hired a structural engineer in addition to our architect to consult on the support structure they put in place.

Old brick and mortar is impossible to match. It looks beautiful in relation to the brick exterior of the rest of the house and completely historically appropriate. In those cases you can choose another period correct material. The metal siding on this brick house is used to clad only the bump out addition pulling its black color from the darker bricks.

Hi we are building a master bdrm suite addition onto our 1973 brick ranch and need help in deciding which brick works better or if we should do hardie plank siding with a brick skirt. On this house the dark of the metal is the perfect material to play off the warmth of the red brick providing a smart design tension between the modern and the traditional. We built a small addition to our brick house circa 1920 where a screened porch used to be and we took out part of an exterior wall to make the addition continuous with the kitchen. Rustic or refined brick and mortar masonry defies any one specific era blending the old world with the new to redefine the idyllic 21st century home.

But our addition was approved using wood siding with very tall windows all around overlooking the back yard. It plywood siding is an all wood exterior grade panel. There are often variations in color within each brick which varies from the overall brick color and from brick to brick. However new cedar shakes won t have the weathered hue of old shakes.

Anyway we ve looked at a lot of s. Wood siding can be matched and re painted. Brick is a natural material so unlike siding brick is rarely one solid color. I would like to paint the siding to blend with the color of the house but my contractor is recommending that i paint the siding of the addition the same color as the trim white.

Plywood siding is an all wood exterior grade panel. And with a swirling plethora of colors from which to select such as warm earth tones and conversely cool grays you can rest assured that your house will flawlessly complement its surroundings. The addition will be at the back of the house and not seen from the street. Plywood siding features a rough sawn textured face for a beautiful rustic appearance.

How to blend your house exterior with a new addition.