Are you lucky enough to be living in a period or contemporary red brick home? Well, when it comes time to choose a roof color ...

But you might be asking yourself: what color is slate, exactly? And it's a good question. "Slate is a sophisticated, muted tone that sits between gray and blue," explains Emily Kantz, a NCIDQ ...

The most durable types of roofing are slate and clay tiles but they ... asphalt and mineral composite to create a variety colors like gray, brown, red, green or blue. However, their color ...

And shingle shapes can be similarly varied; consider the scalloped-edge tabs that complement Victorian architecture or the square, slate-like shingles perfectly suited for Colonial homes.

including Shingle Style homes, which have long showcased the color. For Brian Grazer's modern Santa Monica home, architect Mark Rios stained the cedar siding gray to complement the slate roof.