Love the Wood Look? Hate the Wood Maintenance?

You are not alone! Thankfully there are many home exterior products out there to satisfy your desires. Let’s celebrate those products by taking a closer look.

Garage Doors

Mahogany faux wood door with Madison window inserts and spade hardware

Faux wooden doors are not that much more than the same style in a solid color. Maintenance Free!

If refinishing your garage door every couple of years has kept you from purchasing a wooden garage door, CHI Accents line has come to your rescue. While these overhead garage doors look like real wood (even close up) they are metal doors made to look like wood. No maintenance at all! They over many styles and five different wood colors.

Click here to build your faux wood garage door online

Click here to look at CHI Accent Product Guide

Wooden Shakes or Wooden Shaker Style Siding

Mastic Rugged Canyon dark brown siding, Variform teak hand split shakes in Bloomingotn IL

The cameo vertical siding and faux cedar shakes make the blue siding pop. The tan colored windows wrapped in cameo casings help pull all the colors together

This Normal IL house uses dark brown roof and trim to pull richer blue tones out of the siding. The faux cedar shakes help balance out the stone and brick.

Most people know that vinyl shakes come in a variety of colors but few seem to realize that vinyl can mimic natural wood if the homeowner so desires. Vinyl Manufacturers have started to variate colors on a single shake panel to really recreate cedar siding.

Cedar Siding

Hastings Home after the Chestnut brown siding was installed. Our crew also replaced 7 windows.

LP Smartside siding in Pewter with White trim and Black roof and Metal Roof accent

Gualazzi’s home after in Mastic Quest Natural Cedar siding and Rugged Canyon trim

There are a few hard board sidings out there that do a fantastic job of looking like real wood siding. Some require more maintenance than others. These hard board sidings are LP Smartside, James Hardie Fiber Cement Siding, and Royal Celect Siding. Check out our earlier blog series on Comparing Hard Board Siding by click here to learn about them.

If hard board siding breaks the budget, consider a variegated vinyl siding panel. Mastic Quest siding has six colors that resemble cedar. The Gualazzi’s thought it was a good choice for them after deciding their current cedar siding was not working for them. Check out that amazing decision by clicking here.

Wood Shake Roof

DaVinci makes a polymer shake product that looks like real cedar shakes

DaVinci makes a polymer shake product that looks like real cedar shakes

DaVinci makes a polymer shake product that looks like real cedar shakes

There are a couple of companies out there that make a wood shake roofing product that’s made of a polymer blend. Two top these companies are DaVinci Roofscapes and Inspire Roofing Products. While these products will be close to the same price point as real wooden shakes, there is absolutely no maintenance with a polymer blend shake. These shakes may look slick but are easy to walk on (so you can hang Christmas lights!). They are considered “self-healing” shakes, which means if they get scuffed or scratched the sun will heat up the polymer and erase the scratch.

Want to talk more about one of these? Interested in a wood-look product not mentioned? Give Carlson Exteriors a shout.