HOW TO CHOOSE THE PERFECT ROOF COLOR TO MATCH YOUR HOME
The roof accounts for as much as 25 to 40 percent of your home’s visible exterior and plays a key role in how your home is perceived from the street. Choosing a color scheme for your roof is not always easy. We know this gives homeowners a great deal of grief since it is a permanent fixation for their home for up to 50 years. With these 3 tips, we hope you feel confident in your endeavor!
Coordinate with Siding and Shutters
Interior designers don’t just randomly pick pretty colors for flooring, cabinets, countertops and walls without regard to the big picture.
All colors must work together to achieve a whole that is visually coordinated and appealing.
The same is true for your home’s exterior. First, the roof color should be dissimilar enough to provide contrast.
How To Coordinate – Not Match – Your Roof Shingles Colors to Your House
It is as simple as combining a warm shingle color with a warm siding color, or a cool shingle color with a cool siding color. Your color palette for your roof and siding should fall under the same tone (cool or warm), and a similar – but never the same – color.
1. Think of your roof as a canvas to express your personal style.
A roof typically accounts for about 40 percent of your home’s overall exterior. With a wide range of beautiful dimensional colors and styles available in today’s asphalt roofing shingle market, you can bring the same energy to designing your exterior that you do to your interior.
2. Should you choose a color that “pops”?
Despite the variety of shingle colors on today’s market, sometimes it is best to go with the basics. Traditional shingle materials have always been clay, metal, wood, and slate. This is the reason that the most popular shingle colors are typically red, grey, brown, and black. If you are concerned that a more unconventional color choice will look dated in a few years or simply that you won’t like it, it is always best to go with a more traditional color.
3. Avoid feeling limited by what you already have on your roof – unless you love the color, of course!
When the time comes to replace your roof, take a moment to reconsider which color roofing shingles might improve your home’s overall look. While you may be tempted to play it safe and replace your current roof with the same exact shingle color, use this home exterior project as an opportunity to refresh your home’s appearance and boost its curb appeal.
4. Compare the actual impact on cost if you want to upgrade your roofing shingles.
The actual cost difference between roofing shingle product lines may be less than you think, so moving up to an architectural shingle in a designer color could actually be within your budget. Of course, only a roofing contractor can give you an estimate that is based on the specific details for your home and the products you select. But getting the roof shingle you really want may only add a few extra hundred dollars to the total project cost.
Ask your Allsure to show you the cost difference between the roofing shingle options you may be trying to decide between so you can make an informed decision about your new roof.
Other factors you should consider
Always remember a few other tricks of the trade. When you choose a dark shingle color, it will absorb more of the sun’s rays instead of deflecting them and, in turn, pull more heat into your home. This can affect your choice either way, depending on the local climate where you live. A general rule of thumb is also that darker colors are more commanding and will give your home a more dramatic, stately look. Lighter colors brighten up the look of a home and are often a suitable choice in wooded areas that don’t get a lot of sun.
It is also good to take advice from family, friends, neighbors, and contractors to heart, but remember that the most important thing is that you like the color of your roof. After all, it is your home.