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Because nothing is ever simple at Casa River.

Tear down of the front porch is complete…

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And this is the composite decking color I chose.

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It’s called Rocky Harbor, clay toned with a little grey. I thought this would be the next step in the replacement process but my husband had other ideas.

See the wall behind the porch with 3 windows and a door?

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Husband will have to remove some of the lower siding and since he can’t find an exact color match he decided he wants to change it….

So he came home with this.

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A catalog for fake stone siding. Easy to install and lightweight…

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It gives the look of stone without the hassle or high price.

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He chose the Santa Fe color, which admittedly looked pretty good… and brought home a sample.

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Which looked anything but good in real life.

Cheap, plastic-y and not convincing anyone it was stone… it looked like the skirting they put under trailers in the 70’s.

And since my motto is if you’re going to do something you might as well do it right….

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I took my husband to the store to look at actual stone. He wasn’t thrilled as it’s a lot more expensive and much harder to work with…. but since it was his idea to replace the old siding (instead of carefully removing it and putting it back on) he couldn’t really argue.

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I brought these two samples home.

There are going to be issues. Three windows and a door to cut around. Depth discrepancies. And the conundrum of how to marry corners- one edge stone and one edge vinyl siding.

No one seems to be able to answer our questions but the lumber store is having a trade show with the stone distributors soon, so we’ll attend and hopefully learn how to install stone properly.

Wish us luck.

I have a feeling we’ll need it.

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