A Seattle studio that treats the outside of your house as a design problem first and a materials order second. Colour, proportion and detail decided before anyone orders a single square of siding.
Roof colour against siding against trim against window frame. Chosen together, they read as a design. Chosen separately, they read as three contractors.
Fiber cement, engineered wood, real cedar and mixed-material elevations. Where the material changes matters as much as which material you choose.
Roughly forty percent of what you see from the street is roof. We specify for how it sheds and ventilates, and for how the colour sits against the walls beneath it.
Replacing like-for-like is a missed opportunity. Changing proportion, grille pattern or frame colour often does more for a facade than new siding will.
Three combinations we return to for Seattle homes. Yours gets drawn on your actual elevation, not picked from a swatch board under showroom lighting.
Deep forest body with chalk trim and black frames, warmed by a cedar entry. Holds its depth under grey light instead of going flat.
Warm white body, near-black roof and frames, sage soffit. The warmth matters — a cool white turns grey-blue nine months of the year here.
For the brick-and-shingle houses through Wallingford and Mount Baker — board-and-batten above, existing brick below, tied together with a warm stone trim.
Seattle's housing stock is unusually mixed, and often stacked on the same block. The siding profile that lifts a 1950s rambler will fight a Craftsman two doors down.
Keep the trim weight. These houses were drawn with heavy casings and a strong cornice, and thin modern trim makes them look stripped rather than updated.
Tapered columns, exposed rafter tails and shingle in the gable. The details carry it — the body colour is almost secondary.
Long horizontal lines. Wide lap or panel siding, a low-contrast roof, and resist the urge to add shutters that were never there.
Mixed materials with clean terminations. Where two cladding types meet is the whole design, and it has to be flashed as carefully as it's drawn.
Ninety minutes on site. We photograph every elevation, get into the attic, and listen to what's bothering you about the house.
Two or three rendered schemes on photographs of your own house. Not a generic visualiser with somebody else's porch.
Large-format boards held against your wall, in your light, on a bright day and an overcast one. Most of the year here is the overcast one.
Line-item scope with materials named, a stated rot allowance, and permits handled through Seattle SDCI or your local jurisdiction.
Our crews, a named lead, daily photo updates, and a walkthrough before the final invoice rather than after it.
Seattle's climate is a design constraint before it's a construction one. Colour behaves differently under permanent overcast, and a wall that never fully dries between wettings has to be detailed for it.
Washington requires exterior contractors to be registered with the Department of Labor & Industries, bonded and insured, and to show that registration number in their advertising. Ours is WA CONTRACTOR REG # PRODEZL000XX. You can type it into L&I's "Verify a Contractor" tool and see the bond, the insurance and any claims history before you let anyone onto your roof — ours or anybody else's.
Ranges for a typical 1,800–3,000 sq ft Seattle home. Your proposal is a fixed price once we've been on site.
Site visit, measured elevations and two to three rendered schemes. Credited against the build if you proceed with us.
Tear-off, weather barrier, fiber cement or engineered wood, new trim and factory finish.
Tear-off to deck, architectural shingle, new flashing and attic ventilation corrected.
Per opening, full-frame with new flashing. Resizing or structural headers quoted separately.
Siding, roof, windows and trim as one scope, designed and built together.
Concealed rot is the one thing nobody can price from the curb. We quote a fixed allowance and show you the opened wall before any of it is spent.
Yes, and we think that's the honest arrangement. Renderings take real hours, and a firm giving them away is recovering the cost somewhere in the build. The fee is credited in full against your project if you go ahead with us, and the drawings are yours either way.
Yes, and a good deal of our siding work happens between October and April. We dry-in as we go and never leave a wall open overnight against the forecast. Waiting for a dry month in Seattle isn't a plan.
On the bid, usually. Over the life of the exterior, often not — the costly mistakes are a colour you dislike by year three, trim proportions that fight the house, or two trades detailing a junction differently. Those get paid for either way.
Happily, and we'd rather. If you already have drawings we'll price and build them, and skip our own design phase entirely.
Yes. Single-trade work is welcome and gets the same crews. We'll flag it if we think the roof colour you've chosen will fight siding you're planning to replace in two years.
Roofing typically four to six weeks, full exteriors eight to fourteen depending on the season. Spring and late summer book out first, and we'll be straight with you about the queue.
Send us three photographs of the house — front, and both sides. We'll tell you what we'd change before you've paid us anything.