Siding, windows & exteriors on Lopez Island, WA — farms, cabins, and one staged sailing.

Real Project Transformations

Real SWV transformations — the same standard of finish every Lopez Island project gets. Flip through and picture your home next.

…the whole island, village to south end.

Reach Out

Call (360) 296-9380 or send the form — tell us a little about your home and what's failing.

Free Walkthrough & Itemized Bid

We measure at your home, open up anything suspicious with your OK, and write a bid specific to your house — minimal boilerplate.

Build, Inspect, Done

Permits pulled, work scheduled around the weather, and the final inspection passed before we call it finished.

Wall area drives material; height drives scaffold time — and on Lopez, adding an outbuilding to the same staged delivery is the cheapest time it will ever be.

What's behind the old siding is the honest unknown — on a full-home re-side, sheathing rot repair is typically included at no extra cost, and anything past the sheathing, which is very uncommon, is quoted as a change order.

Hardie ColorPlus, primed fiber cement, or engineered wood — we quote options side by side so you see the real difference.

Combining siding and windows saves one full mobilization and gets properly integrated flashing — the cheapest time to do windows is during a re-side.

Lopez Island Exterior Questions, Answered Straight

Lopez was the farm island from the start. Real settlement began in the 1870s, once the long San Juan boundary dispute was finally resolved, and the island's flat, fertile ground did the rest — by the late 1800s Lopez was the largest agricultural producer in the San Juans, shipping grain, fruit, and livestock to city markets. The homes that era built are the ones the island is still known for: plain, sturdy farmhouses with their barns and outbuildings, sided in wood and meant to work.

The surprise in Lopez's housing story is the south end. Richardson, near the island's southern tip, held the county's southernmost deep-water port and was once served by two daily steamers — a trading hub for farm goods and, by 1913, a fishing boomtown with canneries and thousands of summer workers. When the steamer economy faded, the south end went quiet, and today the roughest weather on the island — storm fetch straight off the Strait of Juan de Fuca — beats on some of its oldest walls.

Farming consolidated through the twentieth century — the island counted 134 farms by 1930 — and the ferry era slowly added a second housing stock alongside the farmsteads: modest cabins on the bays and coves, built light for summer and gradually winterized as Lopez filled in year-round. Newer view homes followed on the shorelines, while Lopez Village stayed the island's one compact core.

That leaves three distinct patients for an exterior crew: century-old farmhouses and working outbuildings with generations of paint and patching, seasonal cabins carrying loads they weren't framed for, and shoreline homes taking salt on one side and south-end storms on the other. Each needs its own spec — and on a farm island, the barn can join the same staged delivery as the house.