| White-painted cedar clapboards cover its gabled forms, which are topped by classic standing-seam metal roofs. |
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| This courthouse consisted of a two-story woodframe building covered with clapboards, resting on a foundation of stone blocks. |
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| We passed one simple building after another, made of teak or covered with clapboards painted in pastel blue, yellow, peach or mint green. |
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| She reminded me of one of those beauties who sometimes emerge from hard country clapboards or trash-strewn double-wides. |
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| It is not a sign of dilapidation when the clapboards weather, the shingles become streaked, and the bricks blush from exposure to the sun. |
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| This allows the length of the clapboards to expand and contract on the hanging nails and behind corners and trim. |
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| One bright spot: the exterior's lead paint had helped preserve the original clapboards. |
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| Some of the roofs sag, and banisters are missing on some of the porches, and a good many rotted-out clapboards have been replaced with new boards that don't match, or with strips of tin. |
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| Guided by old photographs, Ms. Brandt constructed a new porch, replaced the shutters, cleaned the clapboards and painted the dirty-white house a sunny yellow. |
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| Clapboards are attached horizontally, each one overlapping the next one down. |
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| Clapboards are applied with about four inches exposed. |
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