Hi! I need help with paint color advice! We had to get our roof replaced and instead of the dark charcoal (color match) they used ugly multi color shingles and I’m devastated! In the contract, I stated color match to same dark charcoal. They called and said they didn’t have an exact match and I said whatever is closest. I made a mistake, I’m a first time home owner and assumed they would know how to match a solid dark charcoal and learned my lesson. They won’t redo it and stuck with this ugly roof and it’s depressing. The only solution I see is to paint the house. Does anyone have any recommendations on what I can do?

Can you get a closer picture of the roof? Who manufactures it? What is it called?

Hi, it’s called MAX DEF GRANITE GRAY from this site:CertainTeed: https://www.certainteed.com/residential-roofing/products/northgate/

Not sure if it’s because my house is dark blue but shingles feel blue, grays and white. I appreciate your help.

Also if you click on photo you can see shingles. Not sure why Houzz makes photo lower res until you click on it.

What makes you think that painting the house will make any difference at all? What would you paint it that would distract from the roof? I quite like the colors I see on the house right now (blue-gray with cream trim on my monitor).

The biggest flaw on that house is the vast expanse of siding over the garage door. It needs to be detailed like the peak on the right of the house--with a board running across the base of the triangle. That's an easy task, will look a lot better, and not cost much at all.

To my eye, there's nothing bad about the roof. It's a shock to you only by comparison with the old. There are plenty of houses in the country that wear that roof successfully.

Least expensive fix--a couple of medium-sized ornamental trees planted in the open space next to the driveway. In a couple of years they'll block the view.

Thank you, only the shingles show in the photo. Is the house color white?

Unless your house needs repainting anyway, I think I would wait to redo it, if budget is a limitation. I understand that’s it’s not what you wanted—I think I would feel the same way, but I don’t think it’s the worst roof I’ve ever seen, and I think you might get more accustomed to it overtime. And with a little weathering, etc. it might mellow out and be a little less contrasty than it is now.

When it does come time to repaint, i would maybe consider something in a silver-gray range. I think that could go pretty nicely with the multi tones of gray in the roof. And perhaps consider painting your front door a bright fun color, like coral or a pretty teal blue. Or keep the red if you love it being a little more traditional.

The shingles seem to be blue and gray. A light color on the siding would work better, but I would not paint at this time just to change the color.

I agree that it does not look bad as it is! Have you tried to just give it some time and see how you feel about it?

You could go a bit darker blue if you would like?

I think the roof looks great. Why do you think you need to paint?? I certainly would not.

I think it is just a shock to you, because, its different than what you had and expected. Your house, actually does look very nice, and I would give it some time, for you to get used to it. It really doesnt need repainting. Dont rush into something you hadnt planned, until you have lived with the new shingles for a while.

Totally agree with using a silver/gray for the siding. Seems it would be a better balance with the lighter "flecks" in the shingles. We had a neighbor who had a "salt and pepper-ish" roof put on. Painting their house a light gray really helped.

I love your new roof.

Imho, the roof looks great and goes well with the paint colors. The high contrast will fade out as the roof ages a bit. If it makes you feel better, my roof is diarrhea brown, so I'll gladly trade you any day :)

Roof is a really good color.

My suggestion is to leave all the trim as is…that’s the difficult part of painting.

Paint the siding just a bit lighter than the trim.

Paint the front door just a bit lighter than the roof.

Nice, classy looking scheme.

I know how you feel....I picked out a shingle color and when the roofer started putting them on the roof, it didn't look anything like I thought it would. Well, after we had the whole house roof done and neighbors started telling us how good the roof looked, I guess I changed my mind. That said, I like your roof and think eventually you may want to paint your house lighter. Live with it awhile, like everyone said and it may "grow" on you.

Ignore it and focus on other improvements. Those shutters should go. I agree with painting the lattice under the porch to match the body of the house. Think about adding a garage pergola.

The roof looks fine. I love your door color. Add more color plants in front of the porch.

suenana, feel any better now? I really think you'll change your mind after following some of these suggestions. Years ago we had a house with a very red/brown roof. That was hard!

Thanks for the suggestions. All the houses in my neighborhood have the shutters but would like to do something different. I worry if I remove them, the house will be too plain.

Judygdesigns, would you recommend ditching the shutters? Will the house look too plain?

https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/residential-architecture-101-shutters/

It will look too plain to you for a while, but in reality they should be removed. You don't have the style of windows that require them, and they are just silly at the door. Once you install a garage pergola on the left, things will balance out for you. It will compliment the band at the top of your house and bring some detail to that plainer side of it.

The roof and the house color look very nice. I love the door color with that body color.

I don't like the shutters.

This may not have occurred to you but the evergreen tree needs to be limbed up to not hide the left side of the porch. If you cannot do it yourself with a pole saw then hire a real arborist.

"Tree trimmers" often don't have insurance or licence.

the roof is fine. so is house color.

you need to switch out that garage door. it's just a giant white blob.

try something w/windows, carriage style hardware, (or look into something in wood or wood look)

I also gave you a wood door do lend some warmth to all of that gray.

get a door that looks like one of these, with the nice trim work around the frame. add in some nice exterior lantern style lighting, and put your house number in a better spot.

then bring in some flowers all around the front to conceal that lattice work around the porch.

colorful plantings like this ^. also notice carriage style garage door w/an arbor over it.

you could also do a gray garage door that matches the tone of your house color ( which leans a little on the green side of blue/gray)

This garage tone is the wrong color, but you get the idea of how a darker door would look. I also like the yellow front door

gray wood style garage door.

I don't think it's "bad." But. If you really want another color, I think Seaworthy by Sherwin Williams would be worth a look.

Normally, I would be the first one all over the shutters…”take them off because they do not fit the window properly” and they do not. However, I like just the one shutter there. It makes the front gable look a bit more of a feature. Similar to the front gable I posted above. (that shutter doesn’t fit either).

If you change the paint, the shutter has to come off, so you can see how it looks...

Seems to me that the house is to dark for that light roof.

As a couple of people have suggested, a lighter, maybe more silvery color would be beautiful, maybe silvery blue or sage.

House will look larger and cooler!

"Seems to me that the house is to dark for that light roof."

Interesting - I don't consider that a light roof at all.

OP. I would remove the shutters on the upper window, and on the door. You have a LOT of white trim already.

But I don't care for that yellow door at all.

I would not want a garage door color that pulls focus to it. Leave that for your front entry area. You can give the garage door more interest, such as in Beth's examples with the windows and/or carriage hardware, but I would keep the tone similar to the siding color.

The roof looks AWFUL. If this is not the one you chose, and you have a contract in writing to back that up. I would demand they remove it and replace it with the correct one....or you will publicize their error. When looking at the house your eye goes right to the roof...should not be the focal point, not good at all.

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I do like the style and color of Beverly's garage door. The white balances with all the white on the rest of the house. Just don't paint the garage red. :-/

Barbara Griffith...........did you read the OP's statement at the beginning? She picked a color they were out of and she told them to match it as close as they could. She has no legal standing to get them to change it and there is nothing wrong with the roof they selected. It perhaps is a lucky accident or the OP.

The roof does NOT look awful!! What is wrong with you Barbara??!!?

I agree after posting the red garage, it was too much LOL. I deleted that. :-)

Color is one thing, pattern is another. It is not the color I object to, but the pattern.

So Barbara, you prefer a roof that has no variation in shingles?

Patterned shingles are much preferred to a solid color with no variation.

I think patterned or solid is a personal preference. I've seen bad versions of each, for sure. A subtle color variation can be nice, but some can just be too busy...almost checkerboard-ish.