Mixing Siding Styles for Curb Appeal | Exterior Design Tips

Did you know you can mix siding styles to bring your unique vision of your home to life? Diamond Kote Siding System offers a variety of siding styles, including lap siding, shake siding, grooved and grooveless paneling and board and batten. Using multiple siding styles is an easy way to elevate your home’s overall curb appeal.

Mixing Siding Styles

Highlights Architectural Details

Each siding profile has its own look and thoughtfully using them in the right spots can make a big impact. Often, we see this technique used with a change of style in a gable for an accent that draws the eyes up. Other architectural details to highlight include around the front entry door, bump outs, dormers, or creating a break halfway up a story of the home.

Creates Visual Interest

Using more than one siding style turns heads. People stop and take in the beauty of the home’s exterior. Board and Batten Siding, for example, uses narrow strips called battens to create dimensionality. Shake Siding features grooves (rain lines) that add vertical shadows across the horizontal siding panel. Using them together creates a unique and striking look. Here are a few mixed siding combination ideas that work well together:

Board and Batten mixed with horizontal Lap Siding
- Vertical siding draws the eyes up and the batten strips add dimension creating additional texture to an exterior. Mixing Board and Batten with horizontal Lap Siding adds a visually dynamic look with a visually exciting play on texture.
Lap Siding and Staggered Edge Shake Siding
- This siding combination is a popular look as both siding styles are horizontal, but the Staggered Edge Shake Siding adds additional visual interest with its randomized pattern.
Grooved Paneling with Lap Siding
Grooved Paneling is often called Reverse Board and Batten as instead of a raised line, there are recessed lines. This adds a visually dynamic look with subtle texture.
Lap Siding, Board and Batten, and Straight Edge Shake Siding
- Mixing three siding styles creates ultimate visual interest. The varying directions and textures allow flexibility in the design of an exterior and can easily create visual focal points in the architecture.

Personalization with Color

Once you’ve decided to move forward with a mix of siding styles, the next step is incorporating color onto the exterior. Diamond Kote Siding System offers 28 siding colors to further customize your exterior with a collection of Solid colors and two-toned DuoBlend Premium siding colors allowing you to create endless siding and color combinations. Here are a few popular combinations that use different siding styles and colors to create a harmonious design.

Check out The Theory Behind Choosing Siding Colors for Your Home to learn how to build your own color palette.

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