What should the roof color match?
What color should I choose for the roof? To answer this question, different aspects need to be considered. One aspect is proper matching.
The roof color must match:
- External building materials.
- Architectural style.
- The surrounding natural landscape.
- Other buildings located on the same territory as the house.
Taking into account the above aspects, you can achieve maximum harmony and naturalness of the roof.
About contrast and nuance
When drawing up a house plan, it is necessary to pay due attention to the issue of color design. There are two basic principles for creating modern roofs:
- contrast;
- nuance.
Let's consider these aspects in detail.
What to do if the choice is limited
Choosing the color of roofing materials is a case when what is desired may not coincide with what is possible. Unlike metal tiles, natural tiles (higher quality in terms of their characteristics) do not have a wide range of colors.
Possible solutions:
- Slate painting.
- Using Euroslate.
- Metal or wooden roof (painting is also possible).
What color is best to paint the roof? You will be able to answer this question yourself after we discuss the color combinations of the roof and the house.
Useful tips
If you dream of a home with impeccable style, the following recommendations will be useful:
- If your house has a traditional look , in most cases it is assumed that a roofing material that is darker than the façade finish will be chosen (although the opposite solution is not prohibited). If the dominant color seems bland, you can dilute it with bright accents.
- For a home in a classic style, bright and provocative colors are prohibited. The combination of white and dirty pink tones for facade decoration has a noble sound; white and hot pink will remind you of a bowl of marshmallows.
The right color combination
Various roofing colors appeared relatively recently, so many architects did not have time to switch to modern tandems. However, those who keep up with the times recommend not to be afraid of bright colors and experiments.
The gray and milky facade combines wonderfully with cool shades of blue and blue, reminiscent of the coolness of winter.
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The white tone is in harmony with emerald, brown, and garnet colors.
If the house is yellow, then the most advantageous option would be a green roof.
Beige trim looks great with lilac or purple roofing.
Recommendations for choosing colors
Start by assessing the area, because the color of the facade and roof of a private house, and ideally its architecture, should fit into the landscape and be in harmony with neighboring buildings. Of course, if we are talking about a small holiday village, you can stand out from the general background, but if you are surrounded by ancient buildings or the beauty of nature, you involuntarily want to match them.
On the sea coast, houses in blue, white and blue colors look appropriate, in the mountains - squat cottages with stone plinths and sloping dark gray roofs, on the edge of the forest - log houses with a brown or green roof, in a cozy suburb surrounded by flower beds and orchards ― residences of cheerful colors: orange, turquoise and even lilac, covered with approximately the same tiled red roof.
Think about the climate, because dark facades and roofs absorb light much more actively and heat up in the heat than light ones, and they also fade faster in the sun.
If you want to use rich dark colors in the exterior of your home, refresh the composition with light contrasting details, such as white cornices, window frames and decorative facade elements, otherwise your home will turn out to be too gloomy.
A white roof or facade is a controversial choice, because neither one nor the other will remain clean and beautiful for long. But if you are determined to use white, it is better to paint the walls of the house, because they are easier to clean up than the roof.
Start from the shade of the roof when choosing the color of the facade of the house, and not vice versa. Although a wide selection of materials is now available - slate, corrugated sheets, ondulin, classic, bitumen, metal tiles - their colors are not so diverse. But the walls can be painted or plastered in any tone and everything can be redone relatively inexpensively if you are not satisfied with the result. By the way, the combination of a light facade with a roof of a dark or bright color is much more popular than the opposite.
Use a planner program and create a three-dimensional mockup of your future home to evaluate its overall appearance with the selected colors.
Buy finishing materials in person, examining them in person, because in catalogs they can look completely different than in real life, and the cost of a mistake will be high. It is better to purchase several jars of paint or plaster of similar shades and choose the best color, painting literally one square meter of the wall next to the roof. Wait for it to dry and evaluate the result at different times of the day, in cloudy and sunny weather.
Size matters
The size of the roof should also influence your choice. The larger the area, the more restrained the shade. On the contrary, a small house will look better with the brightest possible roof.
DESIGNERS ADVICE: In order not to make a mistake with the combination of colors, you can use a universal option - combining different shades of the same color.
Resistant to fading
The choice of color palette for the design of the facade gives the appearance of the building aesthetic value and a certain semantic significance. Color can enlarge and reduce an object, bring it closer and further away, make it look upward or down-to-earth, bring together disparate parts or completely destroy its integrity.
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The richer and brighter the color, the faster it fades. Black, for example, ranks first in terms of fading rate. On light and pastel colors, the degree of fading will be less noticeable. But pure white, despite all the elegance it gives to the facade, quickly turns yellow in the sun. A practical option is gray color, it will not turn yellow, the dust settling on the gray paint is invisible, the shade of gray will change over time, but only slightly.
Harmony with natural landscapes
When thinking about the color of the house and roof, think about what trees and plants you will plant later.
And if the construction area is already surrounded by a certain landscape, then there are two combination options. The first is merging with the surrounding nature - accordingly, choosing similar colors, the second is highlighting the house against the general background - contrasting tones.
We identify matches
According to Feng Shui, the roof is a protective canopy for the house. Therefore, you need to not only think about how to build the roof yourself, but also what color.
In this regard, people living in the house try to conserve energy in it, which allows:
- develop good relationships with loved ones;
- improve health;
- exaggerate money;
- solve important life problems.
According to Feng Shui traditions, the color of the roof should correspond to the head of the house and “not fight” with the heavenly elements.
Roof according to the element Wood
It happens that the life of the owners of two neighboring houses of the same type, with the same roof color, is different:
- Some live joyfully and financially secure.
- Others still lack something for emotional and financial well-being.
It would seem that the color of the roof, according to Eastern teachings, is conducive to a happy and prosperous life, but for inexplicable reasons it does not turn out that way. This reason still has an explanation.
If the color of the roof is favorable for the head of the family, by the way, he can be either a man or a woman, then in such a family there will always be joy in life, peace, financial well-being and happiness.
If the color of the roof does not match the personal biofield of the owner of the house, then the family will experience emotional and physical stress. Feng Shui masters determine color for a person.
Attention. According to the rules of Feng Shui, a person can feel great if he is in an environment that is in harmony with him. The emergence of disharmony leads to an obstacle to the fulfillment of desires and all sorts of difficulties.
Drawing conclusions
If you want to choose your own color scheme for the roof of your house, then follow the basics of style described in our article. Use computer programs that will help you design a model of a house in the right shades.
And if your idea is too complex, contact professional designers so as not to be disappointed with the result.
Light or dark shades?
The choice of light or dark shades is a purely individual preference of developers, which reflects their worldview. If you choose too much black or pure white colors, the house will be conducive to unmotivated sadness and apathy.
Important! Do not overuse flashy bright shades. Such a house will be tiring.
When choosing a color, you must remember that the home is intended primarily so that a person can relax, feel comfortable, cozy, “at home.” Therefore, when choosing a color, it is better to give preference to softer tones, diluting them with life-affirming, bright, rich touches.
