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MODERN LIFESTYLES require low-maintenance products like the aluminum siding
that dresses this classic two-story suburban home.
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at .ace does your house present?
If you are among the
many families considering
the purchase of an older
home or remodeling your
present home, You May be
faced with the problem of
deteriorating wood siding
or stucco and the need for
a new look.
Paint could give you a
fresh appearance, but it
may be costly to contract,
and time consuming to do
it yourself. Repainting
may be required again in
three to five years.
New pre-finished siding
could be your best invest-
ment, especially when ob-
tained from those manu-
facturers who offer long-
term warranties that pro-
vide reasonable prdtection
against product defects.
First impressions count
The outside of your
home is the first "face" you
present to your visitors
'and neighbors. New siding
and shutters or a new
front door can give a
brand-new welcoming ap-
pearance.
Consider the outside of
your house in its entirety,
and decide how you would
like it to look when it's
been redecorated.
Color is in these days—
shades like olive, avocado,
barn red, royal brown, co-
lonial blue, and autumn
gold will make your home
look cozy and snug.
If you have a ranch-type
home, you, might want to
accentuate its long and
low lines by using hori-
zOntal siding in a color
lighter than the roof.
Even the architectural
extravagances of Victorian
castles and other vintage
styles can be preserved
and enhanced by careful
seledtion of colors and at-
Aention—to the charming
detail of antique design.
Decorators advise never
to use more than three
colors on the outside of
your home. For instance, if
you have a brown roof, you
might think about re-sid-
ing with a barn red siding,
brown shutters, white trim
around the windows, and
a brown and white front
door.
With careful planning,
your new siding and acces-
sories will present a lovely
"face" to your visitors and
neighbors, and enhance
the styling and value of
your home. So you should
put as much thought into
refurbishing the outside of
your home as you would
into redecorating your liv-
ing room.
Aluminum siding prob-
N ably has the widest range
of styles, colors and acces-
sories. It has been on the
m9rket for 30 years and
has been used in residing
millions of homes.
Low maintenance
There are a number of
reasons for this. Alumi-
num siding comes in dur-
able baked-on finishes, is
easy to clean, and is light
in weight—which makes it
easier to work with than
other metals. Probably its
Doors
decorate
Everyone thinks of
doors in terms of the
rooms they connect with.
There are front doors and
back doors, kitchen doors
and bedroom doors, base-
inent and attic doors.
Some doors, however, do
more than merely open
and close,
Wood louver doors are
an exaMple. Besides kitch-
en doors, bedroom dOors,
closet doors, bath and
laundry room doors, wood
louver doors can also be
used as decorative screens,
room dividers and con-
necting doors.
They're suitable for in-
formal kitchens, formal
dining rooms or as con-
necting doors between the
two.
They function especially
well as kitchen, bath,
laundry and closet doors
where they permit the free
flow of air to circulate,
helping to combat heat
and humidity, odors, stale-
ness and mildew.
Wood louver doors are
available as folding or
sliding units, which makes
them ideal for closets in
narrow foyers or hallways
where floor clearance
space is limited.
Folding louver doors
open and close like an
accordion, requiring little
floor space.
biggest selling point is its
time.-proven low mainten-
ance,
New insulated alumi-
num siding can help to re-
duce heat loss through
your walls, especially when
they are uninsulated or
partially insulated. The
potential savings in fuel
bills added to the main-
tenance saved in repaint-
ing wood siding can
usually pay for residing in
less than ten years.
The newest siding on the
market is vinyl, a plastic
material that has been
used for floor tile and
plumbing pipe for many
years. Because vinyl plas-
tic can become brittle
when exposed to sunlight,
it must be carefully form-
ulated and is only avail-
able in pastel colors and,
white.
Normal weathering
Prefinished hard board
is available in various pat-
terns and cblors, but does
not have the long-term
low. maintenance charac-
teristics of aluminum.
The exposed edges of
prefinished steel siding are
vulnerable to the elements
and may deteriorate if
protective coatings fail.
Each type of prefinished
siding has its advantages,
but all will change some-
what in color over a period
Of time once they are on
your home and exposed to
sun, wind, water and tem-
perature extremes, This is
called normal weathering.
Although, color coatings
have become apPreciab/y
better over the past few
years, manufacturerand
home improvement con-
• tractors still can't (and
shouldn't) guarantee 100
'percent absolute color re-
tention. This is true of
vinyl plastic siding (which
is a "solid color coating")
as well as of color coatings
applied to aluminum,,
hardboard, and steel.
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