Adding Striking Wooden Soffits for a Modern Japanese Look! 

I’m really enjoying this build. You guys are doing a great job. I’m building a treeless treehouse for my boys and stumbled across your channel. I’m glad I did.

The difference in cedar color could be fresher boards, as they dry and are exposed to air/sun the color will fade. Or it's a different kind of cedar. Typically pickets are western red, but occasionally you'll get a coastal cedar board which is darker, more purple in color, with straighter grain and fewer knots. It's the good stuff! Oh, and the really light part is cedar, it's just more sapwood, one of the first cut off the log

Came out pretty smooth , Ill bring some wood by lol .. good job guys keep up the good work .... MY NEIGHBORS ROCK..

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I'm sure you figured it out already, but the white pickets with the raised grain are still cedar, they're just all sapwood and from near the bark. They don't smell great or resist decay like the boards with more purple heartwood. Not great wood. The boards with white and pink are the next boards sawn off the tree. It's mixed sapwood and heartwood. The darker pickets that are all purple, if you'll notice, typically have more knots than the others. They are from the very heart of the tree and those are knots from the first limbs the tree grew as it was shooting up. They're the most decay resistant and will probably last the longest. Western red cedar is usually the species used for pickets. At least around where I live. Some Japanese cedar, too. The reason these are lighter colored than the "real cedar" boards that cost more is because they're left green after sawing. The other boards have been kiln dried and surfaced, and that process usually makes the heartwood appear more brown than pink or purple. Either way, you guys inspired me. I just went and dropped $500 bucks on pickets to try a much smaller shed of my own!