How to Achieve 5 Popular Exterior Styles With Trim
Trim and mouldings are more than a finishing touch to your siding. They’re an essential design element you can use to fully express a homes’ exterior styles.
Here’s a look at five popular exterior styles and how to use trim to get the look you want.
Cape Cod Exterior Styles
Cape Cod homes exude comfy practicality and familiar warmth. You’ll frequently find side gables on the outside, cozy efficiency on the inside, and New England charm all around.
Americana
Americana enlivens the Cape style while giving the windows a picture-perfect frame.
Features: Brick Mould
Vineyard
This trim style accentuates the Cape home’s endearing functionality and projects its homespun appeal.
Features: Drip Cap, Trimboard 1×4, Sill Nose
Colonial Exterior Styles
The Colonial home style is distinguished by its geometric lines and shapes, ornamental front entries placed front and center, and symmetrically situated windows on either side of the front door.
Georgian
Simple, precise detail distinguishes the Georgian trim style’s Williamsburg casing.
Features: Williamsburg Casing, Sill Nose
Southern
Decorative crown moulding, complete with a sill and apron, amplifies the formal presence.
Features: Crown, Sill Nose, Trimboard 1×4, Trimboard 1×8
Craftsman Exterior Styles
The Craftsman style is known for its tapered square columns, exposed rafters, and ability to harmonize with its surroundings.
Arts & Crafts
The Arts and Crafts trim style is cut at an angle to create easy transitions and picturesque shadow lines.
Features: Trimboard 1×7-1/4, Trimboard 1×6, Trimboard 1×4, Sill Nose
Bungalow
This trim header’s small overhang makes a big impression, unifying window, door, and porch accents.
Features: Trimboard 5/4×8, Trimboard 1×6, Sill Nose
Farmhouse Styles
The Farmhouse home style reflects the idea of humble and practical living in numerous ways, including wraparound porches that provide shade for guests and respite from heat.
Coastal
Distinguishes itself with a wide header and jamb. More modern and less ornamental than its Highlands cousin.
Features: Trimboard 1×6, Sill Nose
Highlands
A larger header with a traditional rams crown that extends past the jamb lends this trim style its country flair.
Features: Rams Crown, Trimboard 1×6, Trimboard 1×4, Sill Nose
Modern Exterior Styles
The Modern home style is characterized by clean lines that accentuate function over ornament.
Prairie
Accentuates the Modern style’s function and flow with slight overhangs.
Features: Trimboard 1×6
Contemporary
Picture-framed dynamics perfectly accent the Modern style’s simple, clean lines.
Features: Trimboard 1×4
Design Exterior Styles With Westlake Royal Building Products
Westlake Royal Building Products offers an array of exterior and interior trim and mouldings that bring virtually every architectural style to life. Our trim products and components—Royal® Trim and Mouldings, Kleer®, and Skytrim—are made from 100% cellular PVC, which means you get the look your homeowners want for a long time with no maintenance drama.
