Haven't Posted any pics in quite sometime. We are finished with drywall and paint. Trim is going in along with tile and finishing touches on electrical. Hope to get power moved from the temporary power pole to the house next week. Bathroom and laundry room cabinets should be in by end of this week (fingers crossed!) or maybe next week. Need to get flooring ordered and a thousand other things that I cant remember! Does anybody else feel like for every one thing that gets taken care of ten more pop up that you hadn't thought about!!! Here are some pics front elevation My columns I built Rear Elevation Love the "Coastal Crown Molding" Living view to out back Master bedroom with alternating stripes of flat and satin paint. This took me forever! But so worth it. Floor tile down in Master Bath Sewing/Laundry Room Upstairs Door being painted Stripes for our soon to be second son's room. These took significantly less time than the master bedroom! Practice! MichelleDt your house plan looks AMAZING!!! cbusmomof3 I agree about the not being able to look through the walls! I had to go back and look at framing pictures this weekend and everything looks so different!

Ok roof guy coming on Friday morning (finally). We don't do a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g fast around here. We mull it, consider it, linger over, wait and wait and wait. But usually we like the end product. Anyway, I'm looking at two colors on the Owens Corning site called Estate Gray and Williamsburg gray. The roof guy said we can choose from Certainteed or Owens Corning colors. All you guys who used Certainteed's Colonial Slate, does it have a lot of pattern to it? Any help or thoughts are much appreciated!

In my personal opinion, standing seam metal roofs do not look as nice on homes as a shingle roofs. There are many benefits to metal roofs, such as longevity and durability, but they lack aesthetically to asphalt or tile roofs (once again- that's my opinion). Here is a Presidio Shake Metal Roof from CertainTeed, basically the best of both worlds. Its a steel roof that is made to look like wood shakes. It looks really nice, and its durable. More information is here: https://www.certainteed.com/residential-roofing/products/presidio-metal-roofing-shake/ A less busy asphalt shingle option is CertainTeed's Landmark Shingle. A black color such as this one will not be too busy on your home. https://www.certainteed.com/residential-roofing/products/landmark-pro/ Hope that helps a bit.

Thank you all so, so much! I like the envelope idea, and loved the other suggestions about identifying shingles. I did call Enviroshake and some samples are en route. They can put their shingles directly on rafters as was in past done w cedar, but say the application is easier than cedar, shingles technically cheaper. Problem is not that many are trained yet, so prices are still v high. But quite an education! I am getting more grey samples, and am really grateful for all the input. ( Actually Tamko has two --slate grey and oxford grey --that look very close to my cedar, just is a brand roofers seem to not like as much -- not such lavish guarantees..) I'ts also possible the current roof can be patched, with moss killer sprayed on for now - which if I sell soon would give next person their favorite choice. Meanwhile, I'll put on pix of the two blackish shingles in actual on roof photos as well as the same for Estate gray,-- which are probably more accurate than online ap views -- and will happily follow up with a finished product once this project is nailed down.. This is my first Houzz experience, but wow!! Black Sage (probably about right) Moire Black -- (can this be accurate?) Estate gray ...(in some photos looks lighter)... confusing, eh? They look so similar in these actual photos...so the visits to houses I like and figuring out which is which is a winning idea! In any case, thank you, thank you, so very much!!!