English Tudor Siding

The rules to follow when choosing the exterior colour scheme for your house.

English tudor siding.

And it looks like it s textured plywood with raised 1 2 inch strips on it. Revive your english tudor home with a new exterior color scheme. These exposed boards are a nod to original 16 th century building practices that made use of heavy timbers to support the house. Stucco siding on an english cottage a sloping slate roof massive chimney dominating one side stonework decorative half timbering and stucco are the characteristics of an english cottage or cotswold cottage.

It s about 2 700 square feet. A gothic limestone arch above the entry copper gutters and board and batten siding are distinguishing characteristics. Siding trim one of the hallmarks of a tudor home is the decorative half timbering often seen on the front of the home. I have bought an old 1979 english tudor home.

The english cottage style was born of the tudor style so the two share many architectural details. The panels are james hardie s arctic white with. While the design is reminiscent of the english tudor period of 1485 1603 the style didn t appear in the u s. Cream colored trim highlights windows and other exterior features against the red brick.

For this renovation project we removed all of the old stucco siding and trim. And it s down in seymour tennessee. Exterior colors for english tudors. You can t ignore the architecture.

It will no longer have that traditional tudor style and you won t be able to go back to the old look because once you install the plywood or osb as well as the waterproofing for the vinyl siding you will have punctured the walls with numerous nail and screw holes. Today these touches are entirely ornamental. Because a tudor s quaint architectural features often contain a combination of stone clapboard. Once you decide to add vinyl siding to a tudor style home you forever alter the way the house looks on the outside.

Tudor homes are so beautiful. Tudor style architecture looks like it was created from the pages of a romantic storybook intertwining medieval charm with a quaint english country manor. The classic timber frame look is easily achieved with textured siding materials. We replaced it with new james hardie stucco panels made of fiber cement for a durable and clean finish.

And it has got brick on the first floor and the upper floor has the english tudor style but it s been made out of plywood. What happens is that it looks like the painter was lazy.