Burnaby · August 2026
White Hardie lap & shake over a stone base
A tall three-storey home finished in white Hardie lap siding with shake in the gables, black-framed windows and black trim, all sitting on a grey stone-veneer base with timber brackets under the gable overhangs. The palette is classic and the proportions are not — the house is narrow and high, so the lap courses, the shake line and the base have to be set out carefully to keep it from looking stretched. Photographed complete in August.
- Location
- Burnaby, BC
- Building
- Custom home · three-storey home in white Hardie lap and shake siding over a stone-veneer base, with timber gable brackets
- Status
- Complete
- Photographed
- August 2026
Our scope
What we did here
- White Hardie lap siding on the field walls, with shake in the gables
- Black trim at the windows, corners and the band between storeys
- Stone-veneer base wrapping the ground floor and the entry
- Timber brackets under the gable overhangs
On site
The work, up close.
Worth knowing
How do you keep a tall, narrow house from looking stretched?
With horizontal lines. The stone base, the black band between storeys and the change from lap to shake at the top each break the height into readable layers. Get the course lines level and continuous around the corners and the house reads as composed; let them drift and it reads as tall.
Where does the stone meet the siding?
At a flashed ledge, so water running down the lap cannot get behind the veneer. It is the transition that fails most often on homes like this when it is done quickly. The stone-detail frame shows the cap and the first lap course sitting cleanly above it.
Materials
What it’s made of.
Hardie lap and shake, white
Lap on the walls, shake in the gable peaks, the change of texture marking the top floor.
Stone veneer, grey
The base course and entry surround — the weight the white house sits on.
Timber brackets
Under each gable, giving the overhang something to visibly rest on.
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