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Aluminum siding vs. clapboard.
Some of it is regional as well. I see lots of colorful urban streetscapes done with concrete pavers in western cities from looking at magazines and other resources. Out there people think they look fresh, modern, and very high end. In New England, most people think they look tacky and commercial.
Everyone knows that aluminum or vinyl siding is cheaper, easier to install and maintain, but most see the wood clapboard as the quality higher end way to finish a house.
Like anything in the landscape business, it is all a balance of values. Some of that balance is from economics (regionally, or individually), some of it is aesthetics, and some of it is what people are used to.
I've mentioned the way the concrete paving industry has marketed themselves very well by training landscapers to sell their products. There is a certain amount of brain washing that goes on with that which I have also mentioned more than once.
Clay bricks have been around for centuries both in terms of their use and in terms of individual bricks set and being walked on. But try telling that to someone who has been to seven concrete paver seminars and has never set a clay brick in his life. He'll tell you that they can't take wear, the color will fade, they break with freeze/thaw, .... and any other bad thing that can happen.
I know this was a typo, but it is funy none the less ... quote frome Stonehenge:
"but was introduced to them via the deman"
I think most of us were introduced to pavers by de man. The concrete paver industry is "de man".
Don't get me wrong, concrete paver are great. It is just that clay pavers are great too.
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