roof color

Why in the world would you choose this color for a roof? It relegates a house to an eternity of browns. I keep trying to convince myself it is terra cotta colored, but in the sunshine, it's as brown as dirt. It just KILLS me that we have to spend money to keep it this color, since we're only due to replace the roof over the small addition on the side of the cottage. And that sets off feelings of hatred toward the POs, who didn't replace the small addition when they redid the other parts of the roof, those cheap bastards.

I'm planning to paint the cottage a dijon mustard color. Will it look awful with the roof?

stormy weather

We got the bid on the roof -- more than we thought, not that we're surprised. It's apparently the best roofing contractor in town. The thing that kills me is that it's just a bit more to get nicer shingles (we have the standard craptastic 3-tab in a yucky color) but since we're only doing a small part of the roof, we have to match the old kind. We talked to the contractor about having a mismatched roof, and he said it would be hard to tell from the street, the way our house is positioned. Good point, but my real estate guru (hi mom) said by no means should we turn our roof into a crazy quilt.

I've been deeply engaged in cleaning projects, and Mr. Reluctant has been doing exterior projects. He has been dismantling our storm windows to repair and replace what he can. Turns out most are damaged in some minor way, and two are missing screens and two more the sliding glass panel that covers the screens.

the roof, the roof, the roof

...needs replacing! Well, one part of it anyway. We have a rubber membrane over the flat porch area and a roof that is fine over the main section of the house, but an older roof over the "bonus room" addition. Because no, we wouldn't want our junk, boxes, and the fantastic industrial, stained, mislaid carpet ruined. You can see the roof and said carpet in these very unflattering shots of the back of our house.

Mr. Reluctant called for an estimate appointment today. Before we moved in, we had a quote to fix a slightly sagging beam and the shingles replaced for a bit under $1K, I believe it was, and the sellers duly knocked that off the price. Who knows if that was accurate, though. Needless to say, I am less than enthused about spending the money we could be using for an oven hood/venting the kitchen to redo the roof over the part of the house I like the least. That's how it goes, though, right?