ROOF COLOR HELP NEEDED

[DisneyFan32WI]

We are in the final stage of selections. We are absolutely stuck. I need your help deciding which color roof to go with. The picture has the stone that will be the bottom third of the entire house along with 2 columns with stone on the porch. The far right darkest color is the main siding, the middle color is the shakes at the top peaks, and the far left lightest color is the trim. Garage door, front door and shutters will be the chocolate color that is pictured in a circle shape.

 

[Christine]

I picked Heather Blend. Our neighborhood has much the same color scheme. I prefer the roofs that look a bit more brown than gray.

 

[Neesy228]

I would do Heather Blend as well, seems to work best with the colors you’ve got in the first photo.

 

[tvguy]

I would vote neither based on the weather here. Not sure what the weather is where you live but I'd go with a tan to reflect heat in the summer.

 

[Wishing on a star]

I hate, hate, hate the red in the Heatherblend. (let me tell you how I really feel !!!! Hahahaha!!!)
Best thing we ever did was go with a darker roof color. (even darker than the Weatherwood, which is really a med-neutral)
Our house is a tan-taupe, with some stone trim that is somewhat similar in color to the stone in your photo.
The difference is that the house color is a good shade or two lighter than that darker siding on the right in your photo.
Our roof is almost like charcoal-black... You would be surprised how well that works and how nice it looks with that 'pop'.
We have neutral matching trim, white windows and white shutters, nice white poly-wood gliders on my front porch....

I was scared to be so brave.... but we looked and looked and looked and brought samples home to actually lay on the roof, over the front porch. But, we are so glad that we did it.

Mono-chromatic houses, which is what generic spec builders always seem to do, just look like mono-color boxes.

Which brand/make of shingles are you looking at?
I know that at least two have a similar color called weather-wood...
We liked a different make better - it is not a couple of other houses in our neighborhood, and it looks sharper.
But, we wanted to go thru a certain roofer, and to get full service, warrantees, etc.. went with the Owens Corning.
A close second.

 

[Hikergirl]

I can't tell from the picture, is the stone a mix of greys and tan tones?
If yes I would go with the Heather Blend. I think you would need some brown tones to balance that.
If its all grey then I would go with the other roof color.

 

[Party.Of.4-NY>>>FL]

I voted for Heather Blend. The Weathered Wood is also a very nice color and would work well with your scheme, but I’ve noticed as the years go by and it begins to fade it loses much of it’s brown/beige tones and begins to take on more of a grey appearance. And this will sound crazy, but eventually some weathered wood shingles will even begin to show a very faint reddish tone after about 10 or 15 years. I’m not exactly sure which manufacturer’s line of roofing shingles you’re choosing from. If I had to guess I’d say CertainTeed? To be fair, the “reddish” comment above is pertaining more to Tamko and GAF, so it may not be the case for Certainteed’s weathered wood color.

I love your siding pallatte! As far as vinyl siding goes, Alside’s Charter Oak line is one of the better choices on the market. I can’t be sure from the photo exactly which siding and trim colors you’ve chosen. Maybe Canyon Drift for the main siding, Tuscan Clay for the shakes in the peaks, and Monterey Sand for the trim???

Out of curiousity, I noticed the shutter sample in the photo as well. Are you considering shutters? If your exterior light fixtures(?), porch or stair railings(?), and other minor details will be black, I think black shutters would really work well with those. On the other hand, if you’re wanting to stick to the brown tones, shutters that closely match your eventual roof color would look hot too!

Sorry for the rambling post. I know you only asked a simple question about roof colors and I (perhaps rudely) took the ball and ran with it.

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

I can't tell from the picture, is the stone a mix of greys and tan tones?
If yes I would go with the Heather Blend. I think you would need some brown tones to balance that.
If its all grey then I would go with the other roof color.

Yeah, the stone is rather washed out/neutral. They didn't have anything bolder for us to pick from.

 

[Wishing on a star]

Shingles today should not fade that much for quite a few years....
The color is weatherwood, the shingles are not actually weathered wood.

Again, I hate that red... see it on some houses here. And, that looks kind of orange.
I am not seeing anything in that color that goes with the neutrals that you are choosing from????

I wish I had a photo of our new roof/house to post for you.
Maybe I can check and see if I can find something on my computer here.

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

I voted for Heather Blend. The Weathered Wood is also a very nice color and would work well with your scheme, but I’ve noticed as the years go by and it begins to fade it loses much of it’s brown/beige tones and begins to take on more of a grey appearance. And this will sound crazy, but eventually some weathered wood shingles will even begin to show a very faint reddish tone after about 10 or 15 years. I’m not exactly sure which manufacturer’s line of roofing shingles you’re choosing from. If I had to guess I’d say CertainTeed? To be fair, the “reddish” comment above is pertaining more to Tamko and GAF, so it may not be the case for Certainteed’s weathered wood color.

I love your siding pallatte! As far as vinyl siding goes, Alside’s Charter Oak line is one of the better choices on the market. I can’t be sure from the photo exactly which siding and trim colors you’ve chosen. Maybe Canyon Drift for the main siding, Tuscan Clay for the shakes in the peaks, and Monterey Sand for the trim???

Out of curiousity, I noticed the shutter sample in the photo as well. Are you considering shutters? If your exterior light fixtures(?), porch or stair railings(?), and other minor details will be black, I think black shutters would really work well with those. On the other hand, if you’re wanting to stick to the brown tones, shutters that closely match your eventual roof color would look hot too!

Sorry for the rambling post. I know you only asked a simple question about roof colors and I (perhaps rudely) took the ball and ran with it.

Oh my, you have all the colors down!!! Thanks for your input. Such a tough decision to make. We are doing board and bat shutters

 

[Hikergirl]

Yeah, the stone is rather washed out/neutral. They didn't have anything bolder for us to pick from.

If it were me I would go with the Heather Blend then, but I really don't think you could go wrong with either. They would both look very nice with your entire color palette.

ETA I'm not seeing red in the HB, it looks more brown on my screen, but if the actual color is red/orange, I would choose the grey roof over that.

 

[Wishing on a star]

If you are limited the two options, then I still vote Weatherwood.
And, like I had mentioned, I do think that most builders, especially spec builders are going to autmatically go that "blah" neutral, 'safe', route.

Here is something I found...
Light neutal stone, some brown paint and trim... Dark roof.

 

[kuhltiffany]

Weatherwood for sure. You already have so many colours going on, a multi-coloured roof is just going to look too busy!

 

[Party.Of.4-NY>>>FL]

The color is weatherwood,

It actually is spelled weathered wood by most, if not all roofing manufactures. Doesn’t really matter though. I only pointed it out in case you’re googling for sample photos.

the shingles are not actually weathered wood.

Correct. They are laminated asphalt shingles. No wood at all.

You’re right about the red. It bugs me too! Especially since it’s barely even visible on a brand new weathered wood shingle. I’ve installed roofs that began to show noticeable fading in as little as 10 years. Weathered wood being the most prevalent. It’s more noticeable with this color in particular more than most other colors because as it fades it actually begins to take on a different color tone altogether. It quickly loses any hint of the brown/beige that it had when it was brand new and begins to show as a mostly grey color. Then after that, the very faint red tones begin to show. Conversely, as most other colors fade they usually keep the same overall color tone that they had when they were new. As they age, they begin to show only a faded, less rich version of their original color.

 

[kimblebee]

I hate, hate, hate the red in the Heatherblend. (let me tell you how I really feel !!!! Hahahaha!!!)
Best thing we ever did was go with a darker roof color. (even darker than the Weatherwood, which is really a med-neutral)
Our house is a tan-taupe, with some stone trim that is somewhat similar in color to the stone in your photo.
The difference is that the house color is a good shade or two lighter than that darker siding on the right in your photo.
Our roof is almost like charcoal-black... You would be surprised how well that works and how nice it looks with that 'pop'.
We have neutral matching trim, white windows and white shutters, nice white poly-wood gliders on my front porch....

I was scared to be so brave.... but we looked and looked and looked and brought samples home to actually lay on the roof, over the front porch. But, we are so glad that we did it.

Mono-chromatic houses, which is what generic spec builders always seem to do, just look like mono-color boxes.

Which brand/make of shingles are you looking at?
I know that at least two have a similar color called weather-wood...
We liked a different make better - it is not a couple of other houses in our neighborhood, and it looks sharper.
But, we wanted to go thru a certain roofer, and to get full service, warrantees, etc.. went with the Owens Corning.
A close second.

Your house sounds really pretty, do you have a picture to share?

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

Ask your roofing company for references — some addresses near you with the roofs in those colors so you can drive by and look . Ask to see ones that are various years old do that you can see how the colors changed over time ( if they did)

 

[teller80]

Ha ha - I thought this was a photo from McMansion He@@ at first

 

[Wishing on a star]

Yep... that photo is def. not my house!!!
Mine is tiny!!!!!
And, we are considering downsizing at retirement.

 

[Wendy31]

I think, from the 2 choices above, I choose weatherwood, but both are good choices & look good w/ the other features of your house.

I'm not a fan of the reddish-orange-ish tint in the heather-blend. However, if the weatherwood is going to fade & show some reddish tint as well, then, I don't know...

This is bringing back bad memories of when we chose our roof shingle color several years ago.

We had hired a contractor who was doing our roof & painting the siding & trim on the outside of our house.

After consulting w/ him, we chose a light sage green-ish color for the siding, cream for the trim, & a "liberty blue" for the shutters & front door. (We also have the stacked stone on the front of our house as well.)

And one reason I chose the sage green for the siding is because the contractor had shown us a gorgeous dark gray roof shingle w/ the smallest speck of the same sage-y green color.

Well, after I had spent hours & days agonizing over all our color choices & after the paint had already been purchased, the contractor came back & told us he could no longer get that particular roof shingle.

We then had to choose something else, & I hated all the other choices he had.

So we went w/ boring basic black.

(We live in the south where it gets hot & were told to stay away from solid black, but I HATED all the other choices & was really upset that, after we had been shown one thing, we couldn't get the shingle that I had built my whole color scheme around. LOL!)

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

Your house sounds really pretty, do you have a picture to share?

Well, thanks but it's just a small 1540 sf house since we are downsizing. Nothing fancy by any means. I just need to figure out this roof color so they can start digging. Votes are split! Ughhh. Finished model pictured below. Ours doesn't have any exposure to it though and the porch is slightly different/smaller