Roof colours, materials and how to see them on your house
Plain answers with real before and after photos. Every guide ends with a free render of your own roof.
Roof colour by house
Best roof colours for a white house
Black, charcoal, brown, terracotta or copper on a white house? See each one rendered on real white homes, then upload your own photo and see it on yours in about 20 seconds.
Best roof colours for a brick house
Roof colours that work with red brick, orange brick, tan brick and painted brick, shown on real houses.
Best roof colours for a tan or beige house
Black, brown, weathered wood or green on tan siding? See each rendered on real tan and beige houses, then upload your own photo and see it on yours in about 20 seconds.
Best roof colours for a grey house
Which roof works with light grey, medium grey or charcoal siding, shown on real houses.
Best metal roof colours for a farmhouse
Black, charcoal, galvalume, bronze or green standing seam on a farmhouse, shown on real homes.
Best roof colours for a log cabin or wood-sided house
Green, brown, black or galvalume on a log cabin or cedar siding, shown on real homes.
Best roof colours for a ranch house
A ranch house is mostly roof, so the colour matters more than on any other style.
Best roof colours for a stucco house
Terracotta tile, black metal, brown or grey on white, beige and grey stucco, shown on real houses.
Before and after
Shingle to metal roof: before and after
What a house looks like when asphalt shingles are replaced with standing seam metal.
Black roof: before and after on real houses
What a black roof does to a white, tan, grey or brick house, in real before and after photos with a slider.
Metal roof on a brick house: before and after
Does a metal roof look good on a brick house? Which metal colours suit red, tan and painted brick, standing seam or corrugated, with real before-and-after renders.
By material
How it works
How accurate is a roof visualizer?
An honest answer on roof visualizer accuracy: which parts you can trust, where photos mislead, and how AI renders compare with the old trace-and-overlay tools.
Roof visualizer from a photo: does it work with my house?
Yes, it works on your house.
Roof visualizer without an app: use it in your browser
No download, no App Store, no account to start.
For roofers
How to show a homeowner what their new roof will look like
The driveway method: photograph the house, render the roof on your phone in about 20 seconds, send the homeowner a link to the slider.
Visualizer versus sample boards: what closes more roofs
Sample boards, brochures, manufacturer visualizers and AI renders compared on the one thing that matters on a sales call: does the homeowner see their own house.
