Charcoal Gray Metal Roof On Red Brick House

Gray siding with white trim and black roof shingles.

Charcoal gray metal roof on red brick house.

Follow some general color guidelines when coordinating roof and house colors. Black dark gray or brown shingles work with a red clapboard country home and can top red brick attractively. Light olive house paint is attractive with those darker shingle colors. I just replaced my roof on my red brick ranch house.

Gray black darker shades of brown and some softer shades of green think celadon or grayish green can all look lovely with a red brick or similar home. If your house is red or white brick and you plan to use grey shingles on your roof add black or grey shutters and a black or grey door to tie the whole thing together. Here we see a fantastic example. We drove all over the place looking st new roofs.

Such a roof can be reasonably expected to be some 50 to 60 degrees cooler than a dark color asphalt shingles roof. In fact a high end kynar 500 white metal roof is energy star rated and classified as a cool roof by the cool roof rating council. Black a contrasting shade of gray white green or blue can all pair nicely with a gray brick or painted house. Red brick is sharp with a black or a vivid or dark blue roof and white trim gray brown or black roofs look good with green siding.

The best gray house color schemes are really all about the surrounding colors and materials. Red bricks and white bricks tend to look much better with grey shingles than some other shades of brick. The problem is every solid roof i saw a variegated style that i loved.