clapboards

Overlapping wall planks

Clapboards are long, thin wooden boards used as exterior siding on houses, installed horizontally with each board overlapping the one below.

The style is characteristic of New England colonial architecture: a white clapboard farmhouse.

The word is pronounced "KLAB-erdz" in American usage, though the spelling suggests otherwise.

siding

shingles

Overlapping roof cladding

exterior · siding · overlapping · horizontal · planks · cedar · pine · spruce · lap · bevel

architecture

colonial

Of occupied territories

farmhouse · vernacular · historic · preservation · restoration · traditional · American · Dutch · Victorian · cottage

installation

nailing

Securing with driven fasteners

  • spacingInterval arrangement between objects
  • overlapPartial coincidence of coverage
  • furringSpacer strips for walls

sheathing · flashing · trim · corners · joints · caulking · priming · painting · staining · leveling

Categories
Opposites
exterior siding materials

clapboardsbrick

Fired clay building unit

stone · stucco · concrete · adobe · metal panels

construction material type

clapboardsmasonry

Building with mortared blocks

brick veneer · stone veneer · concrete block · poured concrete · glass

surface texture and finish

clapboardsbrick veneer

Decorative outer wall layer

fieldstone · pebbledash · board and batten

Phrases
Family

clapboarded, clapboarding, clapboard

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Rated G