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Ok, my cedar siding has a sloid body stain on it (and there is plenty of
painted cedar) so it's all the same color too. Only the raised grain is
there to see. I put it up rough-side-out, so the grain is more
pronounced, though it is all the same color. I've since seen some damned
nice vinyl, with very nice corner-boards too. I was impressed, if not
just a little depressed after spending a *fortune* on cedar that I'll
have to stain every couple of years.

Wood Windows? Not a chance! Mine are metal clad wood, but I'd go for
good vinyl clad windows any day.

We also ended up deciding not to get wood, once we finally got people to
stop pushing vinyl. (These weren't just low-end companies, either, they
were contractors whose ads touted high-end wood windows and restoration
work, yet they still tried to sell us vinyl.)

In the end we found a better match for the original millwork, with very
low maintenance and a paintable surface, and mullions inside and out,
going with fiberglass.

Luckily we're in a house where we're free to use modern materials. If
the historic preservationists wanted the house done up with all original
materials, they could have paid for it themselves, but they didn't, it's
ours and we're free to upgrade where we want

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