Having difficulty choosing a shingle color?

Choosing a shingle color can be intimidating. Here are a couple of things to consider when choosing the right color for your home:

Match Your Home’s Style

Your home’s style is made up of the building design, the siding’s colors and materials, your landscaping, and more. Don’t let a new roof clash with your home’s existing style! When installing a new roof, consider these factors to choose the right color roof shingles for your home.

Home Design

What style is your home—farmhouse, cottage, mid century modern, Victorian? Choose a roofing shingle style that complements that aesthetic. For example, wood-shake architectural shingles might look out of place on the stark clean lines of an extremely modern home. Alternately, wood-shake look architectural shingles (in a natural tone such as the Timberline^® NS Weathered Wood) typically complement a craftsman-style home.

Roof Size

Consider how much of your home’s visual exterior is made up of the roof. Does your roof have a lot of architectural detail? Does it command a large square footage? If so, a dramatic or dark shingle color may be too visually dominant to be cohesive with your overall aesthetic. Look at your roof from the sidewalk and street, and take photos to use in the GAF Virtual Remodeler. The free online tool will give you a feel for how different shingle colors will come across with your home’s other exterior features.

Paint and Trim Color

Choose shingle colors that complement the color family of your home’s paint and trim. For example, color consultants recommend selecting brown-toned shingle colors if you have brick siding or warm house paint tones such as beige or taupe.

Conversely, choosing gray or black-toned shingles may be more visually pleasing if you have a cool paint color such as gray or cool green or blue, or cool stone siding details. Boldly blended shingle colors with both cool and warm tones offer the most versatility, as long as you match your exterior paint colors properly.

If you plan to change your paint color in the future, be sure to factor that into your decision, too!

Mix and Match GAF shingle styles and colors along with siding, trim and doors to create the perfect look for your home using the GAF Virtual Home Remodeler! You can either select a model home that is similar to yours or upload a picture of your own home!

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Or simply browse the available GAF Timberline® Architectural roofing shingles: