Mixing and Matching: Combine Sidings for a Unique Home

Adding personality to the outside of your home can be more than a simple color change for your siding or putting out a potted plant or two. Combining different siding textures, like stone and siding, can transform your home into a beautifully unique landmark on your street. Learn about the benefits of complementary or contrasting siding colors and textures below. 

Exterior Color Palettes

Most often, you’ll find three colors combined on a home: the siding color, the trim color and the roof color. This goes up to four or even five if you add in one or two more siding options to your home. With that much color going on, balancing each for a home with a cohesive palette that isn’t overwhelming to the average passerby’s eye can be tough. That’s why you’ll often see designers sticking to one of two options when bringing four or more colors to a home exterior: complementary or contrasting colors. 

Finding Harmony with Complementary Features

If you want visual interest without compromising harmony, go for complementary textures and colors. Complementary colors are close together on the color wheel, lending visual harmony to your home. For exteriors, this technique works especially well if you like muted, earthy color palettes. Blending your home with nature with grays, muted blues or off-whites lends a restful air to your home’s exterior. Match your home with western Massachusetts’ rolling hills and plentiful trees with a vinyl siding color like Scottish Thistle and trim in a light cream or gray. Add in a gray composite stone siding, and you’ve got a complementary home full of natural curb appeal. 

Create Visual Interest with Textural Contrast

Contrast isn’t strictly about opposing colors on the color wheel. By choosing to use differing textures, like board and batten with stone accent walls, you add plenty of appeal that helps your home stand out. Combining different textures also allows you to stick closer to similar shades while still having an element that draws the eye. If you do choose to use a standout texture like multitoned stone, be sparing with it. A strong choice like that is best used in smaller doses.  

Dos and Don’ts for Mixing Siding Options

Looking for a little more guidance before you take the plunge on new replacement siding? Our quick tips below can help clear up any additional concerns you may have. 

Do

• Do Designate Focal Points: Use your ‘alternate’ or secondary siding choice to draw the eye toward features like bay windows or your front door. 

• Do Carefully Consider Placement: Your siding company will likely work closely with you to ensure your siding choices look exactly as you’d like. 

• Do Play with Profiles: Highlight your different sidings by using one exclusively on an upper level and the other on the lower level. You’ll see this used with dramatic choices like board & batten. 

Don’t

• Don’t Go Overboard: Be precise with your secondary siding choice. It doesn’t have to be—and arguably shouldn’t be—a perfect 50/50 split between your siding choices. 

• Don’t Go In Blind: Plan the placement of each siding choice with your siding company well in advance of installation day. 

• Don’t DIY: With something as lasting and important as your siding, it’s not something you should attempt without qualified professionals. They’ll make the process much smoother and quicker! 

Ready to Love Your Home’s Exterior? 

Our team at Window World of Western Massachusetts is more than happy to help you choose the siding option—or options—of your dreams. We’ve got the experience needed to make calls on where to mix and match siding textures and where to play it safer, so you can trust us with your home’s curb appeal. Not to mention: with our vinyl siding options, you’ll have long-lasting, low-maintenance siding. Request your free estimate today for a home you’ll love!