accent walls are all the rage indoors sometimes, but what about outdoors? call me an exibitionist, but my house is really close to the next on on the one side and I’m really envisioning a cedar wood shingle replacement for the stucco on that side.Kind of a wall fence thing, that goes up two storues, not a 6′ fence on the property line. What says anyone?
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Fine by me.
What does the too-close neighbor think?
They are the ones likely to have to look at it.
You also will want to be aware of any zoning or homeowner association rules on such things.
well its an abandoned gutted house they want to sell for 14k. I'd buy it and knock it down piece by piece if I could. But until then Im doing me :-)
https://www.google.com/search?q=bright+house+trim
click on pictures.
I looked a few pretty pictures after your first post.
you can do a lot with paint, if you are up for an option.
Back in the old forum, around 2004 there was a member that took accent to a new level. Roger Dumas from out on Cape Cod. Here’s a link to what I believe is his company.
https://mosaicshingles.com/
When we held the Breaktime Fest in 2005, Roger came and put on a demo on shingle art. Here’s the 4x4 board he worked on. If I can find a couple of his roof and sidewall on his house, I’ll post them.
Check out this thread
https://www.finehomebuilding.com/forum/decorative-siding-shingles#comment-508612
A ways down is Rogers work on his house.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/finehomebuilding.s3.tauntoncloud.com/app/uploads/2019/01/26114212/whaletail-700x525.jpg
https://s3.amazonaws.com/finehomebuilding.s3.tauntoncloud.com/app/uploads/2019/01/26114212/stripercloseup.jpg
here, the city man said i could annex the land and build a modern garage if I buy it, but when the seller offers it I never have enough money lol. My old garage would fit a model A ford at best. Most of the street supports demo and moving it 15' the other way as long as the driveways arent shared as that can go sideways pretty easily. The garage thing would let the city rennovate the outdated stormwater runoff system and open a whole new street with probably 30 plots. Not sure if anybody supports that tho.
Perhaps the folks with the land for those 30 lots would go in with you to buy the house and tear it down
I'm lost as to why you'd spend big bucks on a wall you can't see.