What a difference clothing makes. The house now has it’s skin – the siding, soffit and fascia are now complete. The place looks hot. Now I better get off my butt and restore the vintage factory safety lights I recovered from an old barn a few years ago. These are going to be installed around the exterior.

If anyone can recommend a source for contemporary mailboxes, it would be much appreciated. A great source for new and recovered house items such as lighting and mailboxes, doors and hardware:

The Door Store on Castelfield Toronto
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Recently the siding started to go up. Easily one of the most painful decisions to date, the clothing of the house – cladding. We chose a prefinished white cedar for a number of reasons: renewable if from well managed sources, long lasting, high quality look and a natural feel that synthetic finishes just can’t replace.

With a modern home shape, it would be easy to push the final appearance over the austere threshold with sleek materials. So we opted for a toned down but clean rustic feel — an effort to ease into the neighbouring landscape as best as we could while still appealing to our own aesthetic.

From the pace the siding installers are going, they should be completed in one more week.