Monticello project gallery
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What we did
- Shingle roof replaced
- New roof vents installed
- Valley metal installed where roof sections meet
At a glance
- Roof
- Two-story roof with three front gables
- Colors
- Owens Corning Duration, Desert Rose, brown vents and valleys
- Walls
- Tan lap siding
- Setting
- Big lawn with mature trees
What you are looking at
Tan lap siding, dark brown shutters and brown fascia frame the house, and the warm brown shingles carry that palette onto the roof. Even the box vents along the ridge are brown, so they blend in instead of standing out.
Valleys run wherever the front gables meet the main roof, and the roof photos show them lined with brown metal. Two of the close-ups look straight down into those valleys, with the shingles trimmed back evenly on both sides.
Out back, two bay windows have their own small shingled caps. One roof edge photo also shows a gutter with a mesh guard over it, a useful feature on a lot with this many mature trees.
The property has a big lawn, a play set, a basketball hoop and an attached garage with a wide dark brown door.
The Desert Rose color is the part you see; the part you don't is SureNail, a woven fabric strip across the nailing zone that Owens Corning rates for winds up to 130 mph on four nails per shingle. That matters in Monticello twice a year: in summer storms, and again when snow drifts and melts along the eaves.
