I would post a picture of my house but I"m not sure how....

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eks6426 very cute house, here it is...

The antique slate might be more neutral. Why not take paint samples to the roofing place and match them up? We have been looking at a new roof too. The two colors that I see that seem to go with most house colors are the warm grays and browns, not the darkest, more the medium intensity colors.
Diane

I love your house!!! It looks like one of those very old houses in Newport.

I vote for the antique slate.

Great landscaping, also. I love lambs' ears!

I also love your house and your garden. I've always wanted to do that with the front of my yard. Do you have garden right up to your neighbors lot? I've always wondered how you transition between a house with your kind of landscaping and neighbors that have grass. I also think that antique slate you be great.

I have Camelots on my roof. I was torn between the Old Pewter and the Williamsburg Slate. I finally got to see a house with the W.S. in person and it looked pink. So not good!

I went with Olde Pewter and have been very happy. It's a medium gray tone, probably similar to what you have currently, but with a lot more texture to it. Here's some pics (ignore the bad landscaping, it got trashed during the residing/reroofing and has all been redone since then):

Eks, your house is darling and you need a tad darker shade of grey for your roof. I like the shingles in the photo (above) but don't know what antique slate color looks like....hopefully, dark grey. :)

I just looked at the GAF site and they don't seem to show the Olde Pewter anymore. Hope that's just an oversight (our roof is only about a year old! figures I'd pick the discontinued color...). We did look at the antique slate and IIRC, it was a lighter color than the Olde Pewter and looked more of an even gray (less texture).

I actually called GAF customer service and complained that I couldn't find full size sample boards in the colors I was interested in, and they mailed me some (must have cost a fortune - those suckers are heavy!). If you call local roofing supply houses that carry GAF and tell them what colors you are looking at, they can probably tell you recent jobs where they've delivered those colors so you can see the shingles on a house in person - to me, that's the best way to decide, as shingles often look very different on the roof than they do on sample boards. I had a hard time with this with Camelot because they were pretty new at the time and sort of pricey, so not a lot of people had them. I had to drive over an hour to see the Williamsburg Slate one, but it was worth it - I was almost ready to pick it and it would have been so wrong.

Thank you for the suggestions everyone. I think you're all right that I need more contrast with my roof so that would rule out the Williamsburg and probably the Antique Slate. The sample board has a larger sample of the Welsh Grey and it has a lot of BLUE granules in it. I definitely don't want my roof to be blue. The Olde Pewter looks very much like it could work but is not on the sample board or the website now. I have emailed GAF to ask about it AND ask if I can get larger samples.

I did contact my local GAF supply house and they do not have large samples nor have they delivered any of the Camelots in my area. I'm trying to get that info from GAF corporate.

If anyone can describe the difference between the Old Pewter & the Welsh Grey I'd hugely appreciate it. I was originally going to put a solid black roof on until I came across these lovely Camelot shingles.
Thanks!

Very pretty and really textured shingles. From a distance it looks like cedar shakes. My suggestion is to go as black as you can. I think the gray tones are going to look washed out or clash with your purple. Black is classic and seems to go so well with most house colors.

The Olde Pewter has more white granules in with the dark ones, so it reads as an overall lighter shade of gray and also seems to have more contrasty darker and lighter areas. The Welsh Gray reads darker without as much contrast within the shingle itself. I don't think it reads blue at all from a distance - see my pics above.

I think the Welsh Gray would look stunning on your house. They also have (or at least had, when I was looking) a Sheffield Black, which was a true black with a lot of red in it. I saw a house with that it was almost too dark.

We have a black aluminum roof that's supposed to look like shake. Perhaps someone could photoshop my roof onto your house.

{{!gwi}}

I can take a better photo if you need me to.

Thanks everyone for your responses. I spent Mother's Day driving all over the place to look at roofs. We had to travel a couple hours away but I was finally able to see a house with the Camelots on it. I saw the Williamsburg Slate which is definitely not the right color for my house. But I loved the shingles. They have a lot of dimension without looking too cluttery like many of the architectural shingles.

I called the GAF local rep and he confirmed that the Olde Pewter color is no longer available for the Camelots. He said when GAF and ELK merged they discontinued some colors.

So, I'm thinking the Welsh Grey is my best candidate. I ordered a bundle of Welsh Grey color from the local supplier so I can see more of the color than what is on the sample boards.

I'm hoping these will work on my roof. The pitch of my roof is 10/12 but you don't see much of my roof from the street (see picture in 2nd post).

I got pricing and these shingles are indeed more expensive...double what the others are. So, do y'all think it would be worth it on my roof?

Well, the way I look at it is that it's like paint. The cost of the paint (or shingles) in a a paint (or roof) job is piddly compared to the cost of the labor. So you want to get the best paint (or shingles) you can so that it will last a good long time before you have to outlay for the labor to repaint/reroof. The camelots not only look great, but they're thick and heavy and have a better wind rating and warranty than regular shingles. IMO, they're worth the extra cost (but then again, I'm kinda biased, LOL!)

I think you see enough of your roof that it will make a cosmetic difference. Your roof also doesn't seem to be overly huge, so hopefully the cost difference won't be staggering in "real money" terms.

One thing you may want to check on is that the camelots are very very heavy - much heavier than regular architectural shingles. This means they'll last longer, but you want to make sure your roof can support it. Most modern roofs are fine, but yours looks like an older house - you may want to ask your roofer to be sure. When we reroofed, we went from shake (which are very light) to an entire layer of 3/4" plywood plus the camelots. Our roof is fine so far, but we do hear a lot more "cracking/settling" type noises than we ever did before - guess the house is adjusting to the extra weight.

Well, I thought I'd report in with what I chose to do. I ordered in a bundle of the Camelots in Welsh Grey since I couldn't find a house with them on for over 150 miles. I think the darker welsh grey color will look good on my house and I'm really hoping there is enough contrast within the shingles to really show it off. I found a Master Elite contractor and signed the contract yesterday. The shingles need to be ordered in so the roof won't go on until late June.

Thanks everyone for all your help. I'll come back & post a picture when the roof is done.

Love the Camelot shingle but am not able to find one in my area in the Welsh Gray color. Would you be able to share pictures of your roof? Thanks in advance.