The Vereno Cladding Room · Birch Hollow, Onyx Shore & Cable Bay · By appointment
Cladding, considered at room volume.
A material library with ladders. The Cladding Room keeps every current fiber-cement, engineered-wood and cedar profile on the wall in full-size corners, read under north light at a table rather than pitched from a brochure — and when the choice is made, the same two hands that poured your coffee hang the wall.
The Room is open Wednesdays through Saturdays, by appointment · winter measures are free and unhurried · (555) 045-6074 · rooms@verenocladding.example
Services
The material index
01
Fiber-cement lap — from $9.55 / sq ft
5/16″ board at a 6.25″, 7.25″ or 8.25″ exposure, read as full corner samples on the Room’s north wall, blind-nailed on gauge and finished in ColorPlus or primed for two site coats. Thirty years on the factory finish, transferable once with the house.
02
Vertical panel & batten — from $8.80 / sq ft
The profile the Cable Bay barns keep asking for: panel field, batten over the seams, vented gable panels, cement corners to carry the lines. Read at full height in the Room, because a batten’s rhythm only tells the truth standing up.
03
Insulation-backed panel — from $11.75 / sq ft
Cement laminated to a continuous R-4 core on its own engineered track — the quiet wall for the Onyx Shore wind. Quoted for weather faces and quietly subtracted from sheltered ones, in writing, before you ask.
04
Cedar, shake & the reclaimed rack — from $13.90 / sq ft
Western red at gables and dormers, stainless ring-shanks within a mile of the water, and a working rack of reclaimed stock for matching the profiles the mills no longer run. The Room’s oldest exhibit and its most-photographed wall.
How it goes
From table to walk, unhurried
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
The appointment
The Room
An hour at the table: corner samples in hand, exposures compared at full scale, the trim studied against a swatch of your roof. Coffee is on; nobody is on commission; and nothing is signed here.
The measure week
The wall, measured
Elevations measured flat, openings counted, sheathing probed where it matters. The fixed quote arrives per square foot with the ColorPlus or paint code named — and the three-to-four-week mill lead told straight.
The close-in
Wrap & flash
Tear-off to sheathing, repairs priced and photographed ahead, then wrap lapped shingle-style, taped, cap-nailed and flashed at every opening. The house is watertight from this entry to the last.
The hang
Blind-nailed, on gauge
Starter to a laser, 10 mm battens behind every course, butt joints left at 3/16″ and sealed. The gauge sheet is posted at the job box, and the crew that started your wall is the crew that walks it.
The walk
Room volume, outside
Every elevation read together the way we read the samples — unhurried, at your own light. Magnet sweep, touch-up kit, both warranties registered the same week, and your corner sample goes home with you as a keepsake.
The whole idea
Why a room and not a quote
Because a wall is the largest object anyone ever buys sight-unseen. A swatch the size of a postcard cannot tell you what a 7.25″ exposure does to the proportion of your gable, or what Timber Bark does to your mortar. The Room can, at full scale, in north light, beside a pot of coffee — and the measure that follows prices what you actually chose, not what a laminated book suggested.
The sample goes home with you
Every client leaves the appointment with the full-size corner sample they chose — and it stays in the yard for a week before the order is placed. Change your mind inside that week and the quote re-codes to the new finish; the number does not move.
We spent an hour in the Room and I understood my own house better than after three kitchen-table pitches. They stood the batten sample against a full-height corner and the rhythm I had doubted on paper was instantly right. The wall went up six weeks later, and the sample is on the bookshelf now.
2025 — 2026
Recent rooms, hung
Six walls from Birch Hollow to Onyx Shore, photographed at the walk. Every finish below was read full-scale in the Room before it was ordered.
Over the second coffee
Asked at the table
The five every appointment reaches. If yours is not here, the Room answers its own line, Wednesdays through Saturdays, lakes-wide.
Do I have to visit before I get a number?
No — the measure is free and the quote is fixed either way. But the appointment is where the exposure, the trim and the finish stop being catalog guesses, and clients who spend the hour change their minds less and love the wall more. Coffee is included; the hour is not billable.
What exposure should I choose?
Stand the three corners side by side, which is the one thing the Room exists to allow: 6.25″ reads cottage, 7.25″ is the quiet default, 8.25″ belongs on tall walls and barns. The gable decides, not the catalog — and you will know within a minute of standing in front of them.
Cedar this close to the water?
Within a mile of Onyx Shore, cedar goes up on stainless ring-shanks and gets sealed on all six faces or it streaks by year three — which is exactly how we hang it. Farther back, it is the gable accent the Hollow was built with, and it ages the way the street remembers.
How does the insulated panel earn its price?
On a wind face it is R-4 continuous at the stud face and a measurably quieter room; on a sheltered wall it is decoration, and the quote says so by leaving it out. The Room does not sell warmth where the weather cannot find the house.
What if the reclaimed rack cannot match my profile?
Then we say so at the table, with the sample in your hand, and quote the full elevation honestly. A patch that reads like a patch costs you twice — once at the curb, once at the closing — and the rack exists precisely so that sentence stays rare.
The Room, in figures
I came in certain I wanted gray and left with Timber Bark — not because anyone pushed, but because the corner sample said so the moment the north light hit it. Six weeks later the whole gable agreed. That is what the Room is for.
The quietest part was the paperwork: fixed number, named code, the mill lead told straight, storm days printed into the calendar. The hang itself was almost boring, which after our last contractor is the highest praise I have.
They matched our 1911 batten profile off the reclaimed rack, and when one run came up short they waited a fortnight for honest stock rather than fake the spacing. The grange looks like itself again, only dry.
Book the table
The Room takes one appointment at a time — tell us the town, the wall, and the hour of light you trust most. The visit is free, the measure is free, and nothing is signed at the table. rooms@verenocladding.example