My brother has a metal roof. The guest bedroom is on the second floor with a vaulted ceiling. I do not sleep when I am a guest there. Sound of rain on "some" metal roofs are torturous to my ears. Something not mentioned here is the sound, the sales guy that pitched me said with his roofs sound is not a problem, he wouldn't put into the contract that I would get a 50% rebate if the sound of rain could be heard within the home. Maybe my brother doesn't want overnight guests. It's an old thread but added that if someone is using this for research.

What is a "Mossy Green" in real life? Getting everyone to agree on color descriptions in real life is tough. Trying to pigeon-hole or define color like that on a monitor is just plain insane. :~D It'll never happen. Jamesboro Gold may very well be showing to you and on your monitor far more green than it is on mine. Monitors are like snowflakes. (I love that saying) They're all different and that fact among several other things makes how you see an emitted color (a.k.a. additive color, monitor color, screen color, electronic color) different than the way I and Squirrel may be seeing it. So it's not possible for us to all see the same color monitor to monitor thru cyber world. In real life we could discuss and compare and probably come to an agreement about Jamesboro Gold; plus context and light is everything. But this is the best us cyber buddies can do. Take our best shot with additive color and arm ourselves with paint chips. If what you see on your monitor is the color you want, then you can go look for a paint chip that looks like what you are viewing in the virtual. It might be Jamesboro Gold, it might not.

artkillery, you changed the peak of the gable between your last post and the one at 9:13 am. If the second post is correct, I would change back to having the front gable in stucco and the two flanking masses all in stone. The reason is that if the gable does not reach very high, stone all the way up may make it look heavy and squat. I would ask about the roof pitch on that gable and only use the heavier material if it is higher, not lower. JMO! (But, I think whatever you do the house will look marvelous, we tend to obsess over the details here :)

With a metal roof you are supposed to have strips that prevent sliding. We have them on the pool room part but not the garage. If you live in an area with heavy snow you should also be using a snow rake on the roof to prevent heavy accumulation if you have a lower pitch roof to prevent ice damming during freeze, thaw cycles. At my last house we had asphalt shingles on the roof and still would have snow that would slide from the roof because it was a really high pitch on the roof that we couldn't reach even with a snow rake. Luckily we didn't get as much snow there as we do here. As you can see in the attached photo. There is hardly any snow on the roof at the time of the picture and hardly any on the ground where it would slide off. The huge hill is due to drifting snow. Another pro to metal roofing for me is in the collection of rain water. With asphalt roofing you always get more debris, often times pieces of the asphalt. Just for fun, here's another shot of the kind of winter we had here in 2013/2014. That was the longest and worst winter ever. The snow blower wasn't working and thankfully our neighbor would plough our driveway every once in a while with his tractor. That huge pile was as tall as the roof. It was a combination of drifts and piled snow as we shoveled the walkway. That was also the year the water froze down at the barn and we had to carry buckets of water every day. Both hubby and I threw our backs out that year.