I am going to have to dig out my high waters. We are going to be using Flood Advanced Solid Stain in Sand Dollar for the cedar shingles. (guess we kinda have an aquatic theme shaken) And will find a similar match in that color with Behr exterior paint (that is the hope anyway).
We dipped a shingle into Flood's Sand Dollar to try it out. When dried it was a bit lighter than the sample in the brochure. Lighter is okay, but it would be nice if they had a darker shade in the same hue, just to check out and compare. There were some nice grey options, unfortunately I felt the dark brown (lovely metal) roof would clash something awful with that color scheme.
Poor Joe just spent the entire day dipping half a flat of shingles and has declared that the rest are being returned and we are not shingling the upper back side of the house now. We shall see what tomorrow brings :)
I went hunting to find examples of what the contrast will be like between the white trim and similar brown roof. The pic of the house with shutters is in a Behr paint brochure that has a house similar in color (aged parchment) with a brown roof. *the color also reminds me of Bourdeaux's Butt Paste- our number one go to for diaper rash*
The current plan is to have shingles all the same color with white trim, and dark brown shutters. I am also leaning towards white carriage garage doors with a white pergola trellis above the doors, framed by wisteria climbing the auto entrance.
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