Already during the 1600s plots were separated from public areas by fences. The oldest fences were vertical board fences. The fence was high and completely closed. In the beginning, different plots were not separated from each other by fences, but for the keeping of domestic animals fences between plots became common. With the spreading of horizontal siding for buildings, fences also for the most part became horizontal in structure. From the first decades of the 1800s, fences began to have stately drive-in gates. The poles on the sides of the gates were high and often decorative.

Cladding or Boarding (Siding) became common in Finland at the beginning of the 1800s. The oldest type was vertical boarding in the form of either staggered or lathwork cladding. At first the boards and laths were simple, without ornamentation. In Raahe the oldest preserved examples of lathwork cladding are embellished with grooves. Often lathwork cladding is topped with a semicircular frieze, which is usually at least six inches wide. Examples are the Sovelius house, Leufstadius house and the Oinonen house.

Painting with red ochre became common in the 1700s, at which time log houses had no siding. However, there probably were not any red ochre houses in Raahe adjacent to the streets. When Alexander I, Czar of Russia, visited Raahe in 1819, the magistrate ordered all the houses of the town to be painted. The paint was presumably yellow and red ochre. During the beginning of the 1800s, when log houses started getting siding, light-coloured paints also came into use.

During the 1600s and still at the start of the 1700s, windows were small and placed in lead frames. Only during the last part of the 1700s did windows become larger and wooden frames come into use. The six-paned vertical window became standard in Raahe. The classic six-paned window later evolved into a transformation in which the two lowest panes were combined. The four-paned window with equal-sized pieces of glass has never been used as a window for residential buildings in Raahe.