I have a house with white aluminum siding. I don’t like aluminum and I don’t like white. The long term goal we have for our house is stone and wood. Either cedar or redwood. When we do the stone and wood siding, we are going to replace the windows as well. Problem is we don’t have the $$$ for this right now.
My question is has anybody ever stained aluminum siding to give it a wood look? The siding has a wood grain texture to it. I know you can paint aluminum, but does anybody know of a product and or technique to give it somewhat of a distinctive grain look?
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Sounds like you want to play with some colors and do a wipe off.
Paint it one color (say a lighter brown) and let it dry. Paint a section a darker brown, and then lightly wipe the surface, wiping the paint off the raised sections only. The lighter color will then look like (sorta, if you stand back at dusk and squint, with your head cocked to one side, in a light drizzle, after a couple of adult beverages) wood grain.
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Thanks for the reply! I kinda figured you can only make it look so good. I guess its true what they say - you can't polish a turd.
Actually, an aluminum turd would polish up very nicely. Might be a bit shiny for the neighbors, though. ;-)
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Give it the commercial polished Stainless look and then you could compete with the concrete bug proof house.
Change color. Faux paint. Stand further down the street than Bob suggested after dusk.
Reside the house with the real thing.
Stand further down the street than Bob suggested
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10 .... I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than the one we already have--Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:10-11
Woodgrain shelf paper ought to do the trick. :-)>
Seriously, nothing wrong with making what you have look as good as possible until you can afford the real thing. I'm not sure you will achieve a look you will be happy with using faux finishes but what have you got to loose.
I would forget the fake raised wood grain that is stamped in the siding and just do a standard 3 or 4 layer faux wood grain with a fan overgrainer brush. It will take some practice and a lot of paint and patience.
Do a search for fan overgraining brush techniques on the internet or look for a good book on doing faux wood finishes. Good luck.
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