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Whatever high-quality materials you choose for your home, each option offers exciting and creative stylistic opportunities. You can work with our design team to assess your aesthetic goals, environmental concerns, and financial needs to draw-up a unique plan for your home’s design.

In fact, at your initial consultation we will photograph your home and connect these images with an application called Hover. By utilizing this technology, we can create 3-D renderings of your home, and explore the wide variety of siding profiles, textures, and colors digitally. This modern means of design planning, takes you to the corners of your imagination and covers the fullness of your design options.

Bellwether siding experts use various techniques for home siding. A popular vertical siding profile is board and batten, where the butt joints of each panel are covered with a thin strip, usually 1-2 inches wide. Another popular siding profile is the clapboard method, called lap siding, in which planks are laid horizontally across the wall, starting from the bottom and building up, the board below overlapped by the board above. Lap siding can also include cottage or Dutch lap and nickel gap, more commonly known as ship lap. The shingle/shake—shakes are split and shingles are sawn smooth—method cuts and tapers wood, vinyl or fiber cement shingles in an overlapping pattern. For a shadowing effect, consider a v-groove siding system, and for a more rustic style, consider a channel rustic siding option. Choosing a certain joinery technique or a specific siding profile is a matter of aesthetic taste, and each method offers its own functional benefits. When properly installed by our Bellwether siding installation team, all techniques are designed to protect your home from Colorado’s harsh elements.

All of these joinery techniques are also available in a broad range of materials. Certainly our experts will recommend that you side and finish your home in sustainable and resilient products, such as James Hardie fiber cement siding, which defends your home from Colorado climate concerns, like wildfire or extreme temperatures. If you are unable to install fiber cement siding on your home and would like to explore other siding options, our Bellwether experts have extensive knowledge of other siding materials, including wood siding, metal siding, and vinyl siding.

Once you’ve chosen your siding profile and material, you’ll also be able to select from an incredible collection of colors. James Hardie fiber cement siding is available in the James Hardie Color-Plus Statement Collection or can be infused with any of more than 700 curated shades in the Dream Collection. What we prefer about the Color-Plus Statement Collection its specially engineered in-factory pre-painting process, which colors your fiber cement siding with automobile-grade enamel, built to last, even in the Colorado climate, for years and year, backed by its 15-year warranty. With no concern for fading, cracking, peeling, or bubbling, you can choose a rich and vibrant color to beautify your home for decades.