This is my favorite view of the house. This is what our guests will see when they come down the driveway. As you can tell the siding is all done! All 25,000+ shakes are on! Remember, we hand dipped each one and hung them up one at a time. We started staining in August of 2008 and ended in August of 2009. It was exactly 1 year and 1 day for us to finish.