How to Upgrade Your Home With a Siding Replacement

Select a quality siding that comes in designer colors to really make your home pop and stand out from the rest. Contrasting color combinations is a good way to add curb appeal to your home. Typically a home has no more than two siding colors, a trim color and an accent color for shutters and the front door. If using more than one color, be sure to use the darker color below the lighter one, to anchor it to the ground.

Add Curb Appeal With a New Siding Installation

Technology has made current siding materials more durable, lustrous and colorful. This in turns reflects positively on the home’s curb appeal when homeowners select the right contrast and colors for their siding replacement. The color combinations now available give those who want to upgrade the aesthetics of their home some really unique and complimentary options when it comes to siding replacement.

Typically, it is best to run materials horizontally rather that vertically, as it looks better structurally. Balance is a big factor when choosing your colors. Take a look at this article ‘Color Harmony: How to Choose Exterior House Colors’ with great advice on making decisions about the color combinations for your home. Keep in mind that if your home has no natural way to incorporate different colors, it is better not to force it.

Here Is a Great Tool by Certainteed to Get a Visual on Your Siding Choices

5 Ways to Make Your Siding Stand Out

1) Contrast with White Trim: Use white trim on your home and corner posts to create contrast. Just as white trim and baseboard helps makes colors pop inside the home, a white aluminum wrap around windows & doors, accent trims, and corner post can help do the same for the outside, framing the beautiful color of your new siding!

2) Select a Color to Compliment the Roof: Select a siding color that will coordinate with subtle colors of your dimensional shingle roof to help the siding resonate and give your roof extra dimension and texture.

3) Avoid Matching Other Façade Materials: Your home will have very little contrast if your try to match the siding color to the stucco or brick too closely. It will not be as visually interesting or eye-catching.

4) Accentuate Contrast on Doors, Shutters and Windows:  Contrast your siding color with accent colors on your shutters, doors, and garage doors.

5) Consider Natural Lighting When Selecting Colors: For homes in shaded wooded areas use darker colors, such as brown or green. Whereas homes in direct sunlight should go with lighter colors such as yellow or white, as the sun will enhance their radiance

Signs You Need a Siding Replacement

Siding typically lasts well over 20 years. However, no matter what type of siding you have, vinyl, composite, wood or metal, it is going to need replaced at some point. The UV exposure that siding is subjected to will cause siding to turn brittle, crack, peel or fade over time. No only is this an eyesore, it will compromise your home’s insulation, causing drafts or hot spots in the home. This also affects your utility cost because it will waste energy.



As your siding ages, it no longer protects your homes interior. It could allow water into your home. Mold and moss growing on siding is a good indication the it is holding moisture. So is bubbling or warping siding. Another common issue of faulty siding is wildlife damage. Squirrels, woodpeckers, insects and termites can infiltrate through the cracks and invade your home.

Brandywine Exteriors is a local, family run, roofing, windows and siding company that is looking to help you take any guessing out of the insurance claim process, and make it as simple and easy as possible. We will be here from beginning to end and are just a phone call away!