Houses With Weathered Wood Roofs

Weathered Wood #8A7960 7 siding pairings

Recommended siding colors

Beige Cream Dark Gray Gray Light Gray Tan White

House styles that fit

Cape CodColonialCraftsmanModern FarmhouseRanchVictorian

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37 weathered wood SKUs, one tap each.

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From street distance, yes. Up close the difference is obvious -- asphalt is flat, cedar is dimensional. But at curb distance most observers cannot tell the two apart, and the asphalt option costs roughly one-fifth as much installed and carries a 30 to 50 year warranty versus 20 to 30 for cedar.

Less visibly. Brown shingles drift slightly cooler and slightly desaturated over 10 to 15 years. Weathered-wood blends already contain several shades, so any individual-shade drift is masked by the other granules in the blend. The visual age curve is gentler. Source: NRCA Asphalt Shingle Manual.

Less than for traditional architecture. Weathered-wood reads as 'aged' and 'natural' by design, which can fight the clean lines of a contemporary build. On modern farmhouse it can work; on stark contemporary it usually reads as out of place. Charcoal or black serves modern architecture better.

Less visibly than gray or charcoal. The multi-tone blend hides the dark vertical streaks that Gloeocapsa magma algae causes on solid-gray shingles. All recommended SKUs include copper- or zinc-infused granules that inhibit algae growth in the first place.

By install volume: GAF Timberline HDZ Weathered Wood. By luxury: IKO Royal Estate Shadow Slate and Malarkey Legacy Weathered Wood. By Cape Cod / coastal traditional: CertainTeed Landmark Weathered Wood.

Weathered-wood if you want the cedar-shake aesthetic and a more visually complex roof plane. Brown if you want a clean single-tone warm anchor. Weathered-wood ages more gracefully but brown reads as more architecturally decisive.