Attractive, DIY-Friendly Foundation Covering & Skirting Ideas
Sidestep costly and difficult-to-install stacked stone with these affordable, authentic-looking, and DIY installation-friendly foundation covering and skirting alternatives.
By ABBY winstead
Design Specialist
Exposed concrete foundations or gaps beneath a mobile home are unsightly and have a major impact on your home’s curb appeal. Fortunately, there are many home exterior design ideas that can help you cover up this area and make it a beautiful focal point rather than a diminishing distraction to your home’s overall look.
With products from Barron Designs, you can install realistic, aesthetically appealing foundation coverings or skirting to complement your home’s existing facade. We specialize in easy and affordable home improvements, so we’ve put together this list of foundation skirting ideas to help you find a head-turning option for your home:
- Innovative home enhancements using Evolve Stone
- Beautiful faux stone siding solutions
- A traditional look with faux brick siding
- Natural beauty with faux rock siding
- A forest-inspired look with faux fieldstone siding
- A rustic retreat with faux shake siding
Discover Foundation Covering Alternatives
Exposed concrete foundations, even when painted to match your home’s siding, just aren’t all that attractive. Covering concrete with real stone, wood, or rocks instantly upgrades the look of your home. However, it also comes at a high cost and usually requires professional installation. Using real stacked stones or rocks is time-consuming and labor-intensive, requiring hours of heavy lifting and meticulous layering.
Exterior siding panels, faux wall panels, and Evolve Stone veneers are all excellent alternatives to the real thing because they’re lightweight and easy to install. At the same time, they don’t sacrifice quality in appearance or durability. Barron Designs’ skirting and siding materials are weather-resistant and pest-resistant with a much lower price tag. By replicating the look of natural siding materials, they give you the same outcome at a fraction of the cost and effort of real stone, rock, brick, or wood.
Mobile & Manufactured Home Skirting Ideas & Solutions
When it comes to mobile or manufactured homes, you need something that covers the crawlspace area beneath the home. Often, homeowners choose materials like lattice or metal paneling, but just as with concrete foundations, these skirting options aren’t always the most attractive choices.
Choosing a high-quality material as a skirting option will not only help you to maintain the home’s exterior properly but also create a look that dramatically enhances the home’s curb appeal. In addition, many states require mobile and manufactured homes to have vermin-proof skirting with proper ventilation. The foundation skirting and covering ideas below will give the outside of your home an overhaul without breaking your budget.
Savvy Ways to Upgrade Your Foundation Covering or Skirting
Stone, brick, and wood — our products offer you a variety of options when it comes to updating the look of your home’s skirting or foundation covering. Check out the ideas below to discover the perfect exterior enhancement for your home.
Forge a Foundation Facelift With Evolve Stone Siding
Evolve Stone is a revolutionary stone veneer siding that serves perfectly as a foundation covering or a covering for mobile home skirting. With hyper-realistic designs, a durable composition, and DIY-friendly installation ease, Evolve Stone replicates the appearance of actual stone minus the hard labor and exorbitant expense of purchasing, shipping, and installing it.
Aligning with authentic stone siding, Evolve Stone has a rough texture that makes it essentially indistinguishable from the real thing. Because they’re available in a range of colors and textures, you can select the stone veneer style that best aligns with your home exterior.
For example, National True faux fieldstone siding looks like weathered stones in brick-like shapes. Georgetown Run faux fieldstone siding offers a more eclectic appearance, with faux stones in multiple sizes, shapes, and widths.
And if you’re unsure of what Evolve Stone style best suits your project, you can enjoy a firsthand preview using Evolve Stone samples.
Create Visual Interest With Stacked Faux Stone Siding
Along with Evolve Stone, Barron Designs also offers a variety of faux stone siding panels that you can use to cover a concrete foundation or as a skirting material. This lightweight siding comes in many colors, from smoke gray to inky onyx to warm terra. Select a shade that fits your overall aesthetic.
For instance, black stone siding creates a striking contrast with a white home, making your home exterior more striking. On the other hand, faux stone siding in earthy tones will have a more subtle effect, creating a soothing, neutral vibe.
If you’re searching for foundation covering ideas that give the impression of a cozy cottage, consider Novik Cobblestone faux stone siding. For a more striking architectural effect, try Novik Dry Stack faux stone siding panels.
Achieve a Traditional Look With Faux Brick Foundation Covering
With straight lines and relatively smooth surfaces, bricks make a home foundation look clean, classic, and well-aligned with traditional design. Unfortunately, real bricks are thick, heavy, and hard to install.
Faux brick siding achieves the same aesthetic without the hassle. Barron Designs offers faux brick panels in shades of gray, red, and brown to complement homes of essentially every color and design. Install it over concrete foundations or use it to create skirting for a manufactured or mobile home — no matter what, it will look great in any setting, from an isolated country lane to a busy downtown neighborhood.
Unlock Natural Beauty With Faux Rock Panels & Siding
Like faux stone and brick, faux rock is a realistic and decorative way to cover concrete foundations or create skirting for a mobile or manufactured home.
For example, faux river rock siding and faux river rock panels are ideal options for homes in rural areas. When green grass and rolling hills surround your home, these authentic-looking river rock styles seamlessly complement their surrounding environment.
Looking for foundational skirting inspo for a city setting? Not to worry: Faux river rock is versatile enough to create a peaceful riverside escape no matter where your home is located.
Amplify a Woodsy Look With Fieldstone Foundation Coverings or Skirting
Beyond the look of river rock, there are other ways to create foundation coverings or mobile home skirting to give your home a nature-inspired vibe. We recommend Anson Fieldstone faux stone panels to channel a woodsy look. With a look resembling hand-built rustic walls, these panels perfectly complement natural wood siding or homes featuring a cozy cabin-inspired design.
And when used to create mobile home skirting, these panels create a warm, natural effect that serves as the perfect backdrop for greenery and landscaping.
Create a Rustic Retreat With Faux Shake Siding
With uneven edges and slightly irregular shapes, faux shake siding panels are perfect for creating a variety of looks. Whether used as mobile home skirting or a foundation covering, you’ll enjoy an authentic appearance, both at a distance and up close.
For a farmhouse style, choose siding with obvious ridges and lines, such as Barron Designs’ Hand-Split Shake siding panels.Northern Shake siding panels have a slightly more sophisticated look, similar to brick, making them a good solution for mobile or manufactured homes with more modern styles. For an in-between option that combines elegance with rustic charm, use Roughsawn Cedar Shake siding panels.
DIY Foundation Skirting Installation Resources
Barron Designs’ panels are lightweight and easy to install, which makes faux stone, brick, rock, or wood an accessible and practical DIY solution to cover foundations or create skirting. Additionally, these panels don’t require specialized tools for installation, which is something that often drives up the cost and difficulty of other types of skirting or foundation coverings.
Whether you’re a tried and true DIYer or this is your first major project, clear guidance is key to your success. Following our detailed faux panel installation instructions and exterior siding installation instructions will help you each step of the way. Our products need to be installed over a sheathing material that offers a solid back that provides 85% contact with our panels. When covering a home’s foundation, this means that you can often fasten our panels directly to the cinderblock. To create skirting for a mobile or manufactured home, it’s best to use plywood sheathing to span the gap between the ground and the bottom of the home, then cover the plywood with our panels.
Evolve Stone products follow similar installation protocols, but instead of installing panels, you’ll be installing each “stone” individually. You will need to use the Evolve Stone rainscreen to add an extra layer of protection to your foundation covering or skirting.
DIY Foundation Skirting Installation Resources
Foundation skirting is crucial to your home’s curb appeal, pest prevention, and, in many states, compliance. The downside of this skirting is that conventional options are often unattractive and vulnerable to weather and wear and tear.
Barron Designs offers long-lasting skirting and siding materials that make your home exterior look better from every angle. Evolve Stone Stone Veneer Sidingis ultra-realistic, providing the same visual impact as real stone in a DIY-friendly form. Similarly, our faux brick, wood, and rock panels look natural and attractive—and you don’t need heavy equipment, labor, or complicated tools to install them.
Explore our catalog to discover remarkable faux panels and exterior siding options for your next DIY foundation skirting or covering project—and all your future home design upgrades.