Thanks for your interest. We are not familiar with vinyl shingles. If you can't use real cedar shingles due to cost, we suggest using HardieShingle Staggered-Edge Panels. They are thinner than real wood shingles and therefore cast smaller shadows and look flat, to a trained eye. That said, it is a great product. It can come with integral color or paintable. We believe that vinyl should always be used selectively and surrounded by lots of non-vinyl products like the project above that you selected. Context always matters; and its the subtle details like shadows and proportion, for example, that end up making big differences in our sometimes unconscious appreciation of things like houses. Hope this is helpful. Matt

My pleasure. No complaints from our clients; I think you will like it. The paradox is that quality products frequently need more maintenance than less expensive ones, to some degree. So, depending on your climate, you should plan to re-stain or re-paint cedar more often than concrete siding, (or live with fading vinyl.