Exterior cladding
Shou sugi ban carbonized wood siding from Japan, what is it & how to make it?
...Yakisugi (yaki means to cook/burn and sugi is the Japanese name for cedar), but shou-sugi-ban seems to have won as the most commonly used term in English, and it is sometimes simply known as a carbonized wood finish.
Usually done with planks of cedar or larch, the thin film of carbon that is created during a very light...