Coquitlam · September 2026, during finishing

Coquitlam modern home, fluted cladding & black soffits

A flat-roofed modern home in Coquitlam whose exterior is built from three surfaces doing three jobs: smooth white panel with crisp reveals on the main walls, a fluted wood-look cladding that wraps the entry volume and the front corner, and black ribbed metal soffit running under every overhang and across the ceiling of the rear covered patio. A wood tongue-and-groove ceiling over the front door is the one warm surface at the entry. Photographed as the exterior was being completed; the cladding and soffit work shown is finished.

Location: Coquitlam, BC
Building: Custom home · smooth panel with reveals, fluted cladding, black ribbed metal soffits
Status: In progress
Photographed: September 2026, during finishing

Modern home entry with a wood tongue-and-groove ceiling, fluted cladding and black fascia, Coquitlam BC — exterior finishing by Moonrise Construction

Our scope

What we did here

Smooth white panel cladding with aligned reveals on the main walls
Fluted wood-look cladding wrapping the entry volume and the front corner
Black ribbed metal soffit under the overhangs and across the covered-patio ceiling, with recessed lighting
Wood tongue-and-groove ceiling over the front entry

On site

The work, up close.

Side passage with smooth white panel and black ribbed metal soffit at sunset, Coquitlam BC — Coquitlam · white panel, black soffit

Fluted wood-look cladding wrapping the front corner beside a black-framed window, Coquitlam BC — Coquitlam · fluted cladding

Black ribbed metal soffit meeting a white column and grey panel cladding at the patio corner, Coquitlam BC — Coquitlam · soffit, column and panel corner

Side passage with white panel reveals running true from eave to ground, black soffit above, Coquitlam BC — Coquitlam · panel reveals

Side door and window in white panel cladding under a black soffit, Coquitlam BC — Coquitlam · side elevation

Covered patio with black ribbed soffit, white columns and golden evening light, Coquitlam BC — Coquitlam · covered patio

Wood tongue-and-groove entry ceiling with recessed lights under black fascia, fluted cladding either side, Coquitlam BC — Coquitlam · wood entry ceiling and fluted cladding

Black ribbed metal soffit along a side eave with a vent and recessed light in evening light, Coquitlam BC — Coquitlam · side eave soffit

Worth knowing

Why three surfaces, and why these?

A flat-roofed modern house lives or dies on its lines. The smooth white panel gives the big walls a quiet plane; the fluted cladding gives the entry a texture you can read from the street; the black soffit turns the roof edge into a single dark stroke around the whole house. Each one has one job, and the details are about keeping the joints between them straight.

What does a reveal have to do?

The gaps between panels are part of the design, so they have to land in the same place on every wall and line through at the corners and window heads. Behind them is the flashing that actually keeps the wall dry. The side-passage frame shows the reveals running true from the eave to the ground.

Why black metal soffit here rather than cedar?

Because the house asks for it. Cedar warms a craftsman home; on a flat-roofed modern one a black ribbed soffit keeps the overhang crisp and disappears into shadow, and it never needs re-finishing. The one place the design wants warmth, the front entry, gets a wood ceiling instead.

Materials

What it’s made of.

Smooth panel, white

Large-format panel with reveal joints kept in line across walls, corners and window heads.

Fluted cladding, wood-look

Vertical ribbed profile on the entry and front corner — the texture that reads from the street.

Black ribbed metal soffit

Continuous under every overhang and across the patio ceiling, so the flat roof reads as one dark line.

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