When picking the paint colour for your roof, you may take different approaches. For a Heritage or Federation style home, you might prefer the traditional colour schemes of those architectural styles. Otherwise, you may default to your favourite colour scheme. Ultimately the hue you pick comes down to personal choice. Consider the following tips to ensure that your newly painted roof matches your vision.

Factor in Surrounding Hues

Of course, the roofing contributes to the entire facade's colour palette. Thus, you'll need to factor in the exterior walls, trim, and paving hues. You could, for instance, repeat the dark charcoal window trim colour on the roof. For a brick home, notice the colour flecks and variations and select one of those for the roofing paint. 

Consider the External Wall Colour

Repeating the exterior wall colour across the roof tends to create boring and mundane curb views. However, if you like a cladding colour, you could pick a roof colour two or three shades darker. For example, for a home with tan walls, paint the roof dark brown. Some combinations create particularly pleasing facades. For instance, for a cream or beige house, try brown, black, grey, or blue across the roof. For a brown home, you could paint the roof a darker brown, or go with black or grey. White harmonises with many different roof colours.

Check the Neighbourhood

To inspire your colour choices, drive around the neighbourhood and note which roof colours you like and how they match the exterior walls. Find similarly coloured homes to yours for a more accurate idea of possible effects. Are you after a modern or traditional look? Make sure to observe relevant architectural styles.

Pick Colours Accurately

Sample colour chips of a paint hue typically sit against a white background, which tends to make them look darker. Thus, certain colours can often look lighter when spread across a vast roof surface that reflects light. Check with your roof painting contractor for their advice. But you could go a shade darker than your preferred colour on a colour sampler, to achieve the same sense of darkness across your roof. 

Experiment with Online Tools

You can also explore potential colours with an online colour visualiser. Many painting and roofing websites provide a fun tool where you can match different colours for siding, roof, and trim to work out what you like best. This way, you can test all possible combinations.