House Siding Options: A Visual Guide

Stucco Siding

With the reasonable costs of stucco, its variety of applications, and the untold numbers of recipes for making it, stucco as a siding has been in use for hundreds of years. Traditional stucco is a cement type of mixture added to sand or lime.

Because it can be shaped and textured, stucco is used to achieve an array of architectural styles. Generally for application, a wooden wall is covered with galvanized metal screening and tarpaper then covered with stucco. Stucco is often applied to brick or stone surfaces, as well.

On this Spanish Mission-style home, the stucco is textured to give the feel of age and durability.