Wood Cladding: How to Get the Look Without the Upkeep
Almost nobody wants wood for what it is. They want it for how it looks: the warmth, the grain, the way a timber wall makes a hard modern building feel human. That is the whole appeal of wood cladding, and it is also the problem, because the look and the material come as a package, […]
Metal Cladding vs Wood and Fiber Cement: Why Aluminum Wins
Walk any older street after a wet winter and the evidence is on the walls. Wood siding that has cupped, split, and gone grey at the bottom courses. Fiber cement with a hairline crack running off a fastener and a chalky film where the paint is giving up. Vinyl that has rippled on the sun-facing […]
Exterior Cladding Materials: Types, Costs, and How to Choose in 2026
Stand in front of any new building in Los Angeles right now and the wall tells you when it was designed. The stucco boxes went up before the fires. The rebuilds framed after the January 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires, which destroyed more than 16,000 structures between them, are going back up in fiber cement, […]