ᐅ Options for Renovating Building Facades

miho schrieb:
You could replace the old wooden cladding with new horizontal siding made of larch or Douglas fir, extending across the entire wall. It looks very stylish on a house just around the corner from here.

Do you mean extending it down to the ground floor as well?

I would find that very nice and modern.

My suggestion would be to replace the wood, possibly with composite panels. But I personally think @miho’s idea is better and more contemporary.
By the way, cool: this house could probably stand on any of our streets within three blocks at most 🙂

Best regards

ypg schrieb:
Do you mean also extending down to the ground floor?

Exactly.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a photo or any image I can link to. I’ll try to take one tomorrow.

Thanks a lot, I can’t find any photos online of a wooden facade only on the two gable ends... So I still can’t quite picture it.

If you enter "wood cladding gable side" in Google image search, after scrolling quite a bit you will find pictures of houses that have clad the entire gable side.

Best regards

Yes, I have noticed that too. However, there aren’t very many options, and I still can’t quite imagine how it would look very good^^

What alternatives to wood are there?

I think the option with plastic panels looks very nice!

As I mentioned before, take a look at Eternit products. The material is really durable and has nothing in common with asbestos or the typical unattractive panels of the past.

I find Eternit Cedral quite appealing; it comes in a wide range of colors and even with a wood texture. From the street, you can’t tell whether it’s real wood or wood-look.
Additionally, the facade requires no maintenance, sanding, painting, or anything like that for a very long time. It is UV resistant and completely weatherproof.