Homeowners choose James Hardie for durability, moisture, pest and fire resistance, and for how little maintenance it asks. Style is the reason they stay happy with it. Contemporary, colonial, Cape Cod, mid-century modern: the range covers all of them.
Our design team will settle the style with you before anything is ordered.
Elite Preferred is James Hardie’s top contractor designation. Every Good Guys installer is Hardie Alliance certified.
HardiePlank Select Cedarmill lap siding with Hardie® trim
Everything else follows from it. Pick the look you want on the wall, then drill down by texture and edge to match your home's architecture.
Select Cedarmill, Smooth, Beaded Select Cedarmill and Beaded Select Smooth. Cedarmill carries woodgrain and reads as painted cedar; Smooth reads cleaner and more modern; Beaded adds a shadow line along each plank.
Its most popular style, in Ragged Edge and Smooth Edge panels. Half-round, staggered or straight-edge coursing. The Cape Cod look, without cedar's appetite for moisture and woodpeckers.
Select Cedarmill, Smooth and Sierra 8. Run vertically for board-and-batten or clean modern elevations, and the natural choice on contemporary architecture.
Long Island and Brooklyn projects. See the full project galleries.
Cedarmill lap on the body, generous trim at corners and windows, white on white. The most common brief we get, and the easiest to get subtly wrong at the trim.
HardiePanel run vertical with battens, white body, black roof and windows. The look that has dominated the last decade, and it lives or dies on batten spacing.
Smooth panel against a wood-tone field, black windows, tight reveals. Contemporary elevations are unforgiving: every joint is visible.
Shingle gables over lap siding, white trim, a Boothbay or Deep Ocean body. Near the water this is the vernacular, and fiber cement handles salt air the way cedar does not.
Narrow frontage, party walls, color doing all the work. Brooklyn row houses are their own discipline and the trim details matter more than the field.
Corners, rakes, window surrounds and soffit. This is the difference between a siding job and a finished house, and it is where most quotes quietly cut cost.
| Product | Textures and edges | Reads as | Best on |
|---|---|---|---|
| HardiePlank® lap | Select Cedarmill, Smooth, Beaded Select Cedarmill, Beaded Select Smooth | Painted clapboard | Colonials, capes, most Long Island stock |
| HardieShingle® | Ragged Edge and Smooth Edge panels; half-round, staggered, straight | Cedar shake | Coastal, Cape Cod, gables and accents |
| HardiePanel® | Select Cedarmill, Smooth, Sierra 8 | Vertical board | Modern, farmhouse board-and-batten |
| HardieTrim® boards | Smooth and textured | Corners, casings, rakes | Every house, on every product above |
| HardieSoffit® | Vented and non-vented, pre-cut | Finished eave | Every house; a common pest entry point |
Lap siding reads traditional and horizontal and suits colonials, capes and most Long Island housing stock. Shingle reads coastal and textured and is the fastest way to add character to a plain elevation. Plenty of houses use both, with shingle on gables and lap on the main body.
Select Cedarmill carries a woodgrain texture, so it reads as painted cedar from the street. Smooth has no grain and reads cleaner and more modern. It is the single biggest style decision after color and it costs nothing either way.
A bead detail along the bottom edge of each plank, which throws a second shadow line. It is a traditional Southern and colonial detail that adds depth to a flat elevation. Available in both Cedarmill and Smooth.
Yes, and on most of our better-looking projects we do. Lap on the main body, shingle on the gables, panel on a modern addition, with trim tying it together. The rule is that the mix has to look decided rather than accidental.
Yes. HardiePlank, HardiePanel, HardieShingle and Hardie trim and batten are all available in the Statement Collection colors, with the Dream Collection behind it.
Give us a call. Our design team will settle it with you on site, before anything is ordered.