Not sure what color, but if it were our roof I'd seriously think of looking into a metal roof. Check link below. Wish we could have done this, but our roof was damaged during construction and metal is a bit more expensive. Just not in the budget at the time.

Here is a link that might be useful: metal roof tips

Metal is waaaay more expensive. And maybe not a good idea if you live in an area prone to hail.

I like the color it is -- it goes well with your brick. I put on a very dark, almost black roof once. That was a HUGE mistake. The house turned into a crematorium in the summer! Oops. So don't go with anything dark.

You sure are surrounded by trees. Do you quake in your boots or go stay in a hotel during a wind storm? Around here people try to keep their distance from trees. I had a double-trunker about 125' go over in my back yard a couple of years ago. I was very lucky it fell away from the house instead of on it.

OOh, pretty house! It's unusual to see a Tudor that is not dark brown/white (at least where I live.)

I like brown for the roof but I would go a shade darker - similar to the color of the bark in the trees in front. I just think it would look more pulled together somehow.

This is one of those cases where photoshop would come in really handy...

I'd go for a medium brown or a charcoal gray for the roof. A nice white for the trim.

Your house is so pretty as is the setting. I would either go with the color you have or slightly darker, but still in the woodsy color. Lucky you, we need a new roof too.
Diane

Thanks for the compliments. Our first house was an historic bungalow and I never thought I would like a subdivision, but this street was so charming and diverse and all the houses are different. There are a ton of trees, but it keeps it cool in the summer. The trees are all really tall pines with relatively small limbs, so other than picking up tons of pinecones, bark, and sticks, we haven't had any limbs or trees down from the hail, wind, torrential rain, and nearby tornadoes. But it is our first year here ;-)

I thought about a metal roof since we have so many pine needles, but insurance is only paying for 3 tab shingles. And we do get a lot of hail in this area, which if it dents metal roofs like it does our cars, wouldn't look so pretty.

I'll check out the shingle samples from the roofing company. I think there are several choices similar to the current roof with some shade variations. I was thinking of going a little darker, so I'm glad people suggested that.

I lover your home. The pines look like loblolly pines. You don't happened to live in or near Anderson, SC, do you? My parents and sister just had their roofs replaced because of the hail damage from last month. Insurance is practically paying for the whole neighborhood to be re-roofed!

Beautiful house! I would agree with almost everyone. The brown shades blend well with your brick, but I think I would like just a bit darker, also. The trim could be changed to a bit more on the brown side, but what you have is not unattractive and seems to blend pretty well.

In the photo, the trim looks like a mossy green to me, rather than a gray/taupe. A mossy green is very pretty with your siding color. I'd also go darker on the roof, more of a woodsy brown.

Very charming home with great details!

Here's the slideshow. Might be easier to view and compare the different colors

Here is a link that might be useful: Roof Color Slideshow

Beautiful virtuals. I prefer the Light Brown or Russet Brown. Light Brown would be my first choice. Can you show that in an architectural shingle, FC?

Thanks for the Photoshop help! That will really assist my DH, as he is a very visual person.

I definitely like the darker browns, and I like the idea of going more brown with a future trim color, too. The shingles my contractor recommends is CertainTeed, and they have three brown shades I'm considering. They are Cedar Brown, Oakwood, or Heather Blend. The last one seems very popular and I can find lots of Google images of it but only a few of the others. But the photos of various houses, even with the exact same shingles, seem so different. I guess it's like seeing someone's paint color here and not having it work the same in real life. I'll see if I can get up on the roof and compare the new samples with the existing roof to see how they are different.

For you squirrel, of course. :) I added charcoal and black in addition to a light brown architectural. Course an archtiectural shingle is liable to have more dimension as well as more color(s).

Charcoal

I definitely like the darker browns, and I like the idea of going more brown with a future trim color, too

equest, I like the darker brown too. If you can upgrade to an architectural shingle, that'd be ideal. Altho I know that insurance usually only replaces like for like kinda thing.

If you go darker brown on the roof, I wouldn't go dark brown on the tudor trim. I can't tell what color is on the house body currently. I think I'm reading you're keeping that. From what it looks like on my monitor, I'd opt for a dark-ish golden bronze color for the trim like BenM's Jamesboro Gold. It'd be neither *from* the body color nor *from* the roof, but I'm thinkin' it would be wicked-fine color harmony.

If I get time later on tonight, I'll see if I can make you one of those. ;-) Let me know the name of the body color if you get a chance...

Thank you : ) I like the architectural's texture on her house.

The architectural shingles do look great; I'll ask the contractor how much more for that roofing material.

We bought the house last year already painted, so I'm not sure on the body color. It's actually a textured pebbly surface, not siding or stucco. I can't get close enough to find a similar paint chip, but it's a sandy color; the photo is pretty accurate.

Jamesboro Gold sounds lovely on the trim. I actually have a sample quart of it that I tried in the foyer. If you can photoshop that trim in, that would be great.

From the Photoshop images, I think the Russett Brown, Light Brown, and Golden Brown roofs seem similar to the Cedar Brown and Heather Blend shingles the company offers. The Dark Brown and Dark Russet might be similar to the Oakwood shingles.

I liked the dark russet the best and the greys the least.

I like the value of the Dark Russet but think it's too orange. I like the tone of the Dark Brown but feel it's too dark (heavy) for the house. Maybe that type of dark brown but a bit lighter.

The light brown, then dark brown are my favorites .. Beautiful home!

Well, insurance is also paying for new gutters, which are currently painted the color of the trim. Since the contractor is going to paint and install gutters anyway, maybe now is the time to repaint the trim after all! Besides Jamesboro Gold, does anyone have any suggestions? And Funcolors, if you get a chance, I would so appreciate a photoshop trim job. It would give me more sway with my DH ;-)

I think a mossy green, same value as what's there is pretty.

Workin' on it. Gotta get dinner on and clean up. I'll have a pic here eventually.

Great news about the gutters and painting! It's so nice and exciting to get an exterior refresh.

I have a thing about the new twists on the old style of tudor trim. I think a tudor should have a dark - dark-ish roof and I don't like to get too cute with the body color and the trim color. Doesn't have to be white body/brown trim - not at all. But at the same time I think it needs to make proper sense in the terms of tudor just with an updated eye/hand.

Too funny you have a jamesboro chip. :~D If you had to guess, do you think you could approximate what the body color is close to paint chip-wise? If not, it's not a big deal. It's just that virtual color becomes that much more abstract and it's nice to work from some color certainties if at all possible.

I'll get some options together.

I too love the style and setting of your home! If you can, definetly go with the dimensional shingle. It's worth the extra expense. I like the dark brown ,but most of them look great I think.

I like the darker brown roof - stay with a neutral color then you can change the trim color if you want in the future.

Light Brown is nice. We had hail damage and got a new roof from the insurance claim too. We paid the extra amount out of pocket for the architectural shingles. I think it was 10% more for the architectural style, but it makes a huge difference in the curb appeal.

Since I'm in the south (Alabama), the contractor recommended against a dark roof because of the sun absorption and heat increase. But I also have tons of shade, so he said it wouldn't make as much difference. He also felt whatever color I used would look darker on my house than on most because of the shaded lot; does anyone have any experience with either of those observations?

Funcolors, I'm a horrible paint color guesser, and being that the house is all brick down below, I've never even gotten very close to the upper body paint color. Just looking at spare chips I have lying around, I'll take a stab in the dark and say it looks close to SW Ivorie or BM Monroe Bisque or Dunmore Cream. I'll see if my step ladder is tall enough to let me compare some paint chips tomorrow if you need more accuracy.

That helped a lot. I do think Jamesboro or something like it would work for the trim. In comparison, the current color scheme looks a little anemic. (I mean that in the nicest way possible :) ) I didn't adjust anything (brightness, contrast, nothing) in the original photo. I just put a new roof on and painted the trim. The virtual colors are much richer and sophisticated, an updated way to approach tudor.

Darker colored roofs do collect more energy and therefore more heat. With proper insulation in the house, you have to wonder just how much of a difference it truly makes. I agree about the shade factor of your lot.

Jamesboro Trim

Here is a link that might be useful: Slideshow

Here's a mossier green on the trim at the same value as the current color.

ok, so the Jamesboro Gold is a mossy green color, also. I really like the woodsy greens with the house color. It fits nicely with the setting, as does an earthy roof. The darker JG carries better with the dark roof. Very nice!

Thank you so much! I love the Jamesboro with the dark roof. Is JG really that green? When I tried it in the foyer, it was a dark golden brown with a hint of green undertones, but I love how much the green comes out in the doctored photo. Being on the exterior might really bring those tones out more than my dark foyer did, anyway.

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.

If what you see on your monitor is the color you want...

Exactly. There must be sooo many variations between what we think we are posting and what someone else is actually seeing.

To me, 'mossy' is kind of olive-y. I get a lot of green in the JG post above, also. The color chip in the deck looks like a dark gold rather than a green.

Try the JG to see what it does. You might also check out HC-110 Wethersfield Moss. It may be lighter than the JG. If too light, maybe something between HC-109 Sussex Green and the Wethersfield would give you what you're seeing.

Okay, I added a couple more Jamesboro Gold virtuals changing the color/value so it may read more gold instead of too green on some monitors.

If the body color is indeed close to Monroe Bisque or Dunsmore Cream, Jamesboro as the trim with a brown roof could be lovely. A gold with a strong green undertone is about as close to *green* as I'd go.
JB II

Here is a link that might be useful: Updated Slideshow

Well, I got up on the ladder this morning, and what do you know. BM Dunmore Cream looks like an exact match to the body color! I can't believe I got that accurate with just some spare chips lying around and my guess from down on the ground. Maybe all this painting is really refining my color sense.

I think those last two photos are reading really close to the JG paint chip on my monitor. I really like the darker one; I think it's the lack of contrast that bothers me in the current trim, maybe not so much the color. I'll show my husband when he gets back from a business trip tonight and see what he thinks. With all the help from you wonderful GW'ers, I may be able to convince him it's worth it!

when we had to get a new roof last year, I found that what worked best for me in the end was to figure out what shingles I wanted, i.e. what material/warranty etc., and *then* see what was available in that product line. Color shouldn't lead on something as functionally crucial as a roof, IMO.

We ended up with Malarkey Legacy because of their superior construction and warranty, and chose within what they offered. Going by mere weight and thickness is also deceptive, just so you know. So figure out what *kind* of roof first, before you choose color, is my recommendation.

"The shingles my contractor recommends is CertainTeed, and they have three brown shades I'm considering. They are Cedar Brown, Oakwood, or Heather Blend.?

I think that info might have gotten lost in all the photos. :~D

AH--I just saw that you are only being paid for 3-tab shingles. You really might want to consider paying the upgrade to something else if you can, in terms of warranty. Expect that a warranty on most brands means that the roofing will last about half that long, I was told. We had to pay an upgrade too, but it was *really* worth it; we basically considered the insurance payment to be a credit towards what we chose, if that makes sense, to ease the pain :)

LOL funcolors -- thanks very much--seems we crossed. Yes, you're right, I didn't even see the specific name mentioned! Sloppy reading, there, fly!

O.K., well...my last post still stands...and you might want to go to the other fora here at GW to learn about roofing materials and what's at stake. Did I read right that you are considering the dimensional shingles as an upgrade?