Stucco Siding: A Visual Guide to Siding Options

Stucco Siding

With its reasonable cost, variety of applications, and many recipes for making it, stucco has been in use for hundreds of years. Traditional stucco is a cement-type mixture added to sand or lime. Generally, a wooden wall is covered with galvanized metal screening and tarpaper, then covered with stucco. Stucco is often applied to brick or stone as well. On this Spanish Mission style home, the stucco is textured to give the feel of age and durability.