Complement Your Home’s Architectural Style With Shingles

Your home’s roof is an important part of its appearance. Since it covers a large area on your home’s exterior, it should complement architectural features and enhance existing materials and colors. Choosing the right roofing materials and shingle roofer in the Chicago area, will add beauty, character, and quality roofing to your home.

Style Guide

GAF’s Style Guide, shows you how to choose a shingle roofing style, pattern, and color that enhances the architectural style of your home. Different styles of architecture reflect different roof styles with various shapes, heights, and overhangs. Take a look at some popular home styles around the Chicago area:

Colonial

Colonial-style homes typically have symmetrical, square facades with balanced windows, and commonly have porches or large entries.

This style of home is quite common in the Northeast and the Central areas of the U.S., including the Chicago area. Gray or black slate-look shingles accented with hues of red, blue, or brown work well with Colonial architecture.

Craftsman

Although Craftsman-style homes began in the West, there are many located in the Chicago area.

These homes, with expansive roof lines and large, low overhangs, require an expert shingle roofer. The style looks great with wood-shake look shingles in earth tones of gray, tan, and green.

Tudor

Tudor-style homes with red brick exteriors are quite common in older Chicago area suburbs. Because of typical high, steep-pitched roofs, Tudor-style homes need a professional shingle roofer for safe installation.

Red or tan brick facades accented by gray or brown cross-gables look great with warm gray and brown roofs.

Victorian

Victorian-style homes usually have complex roof lines with multiple levels, high dormer windows, and steep-pitched turrets with hard to reach spirals. This complicated roof style requires a shingle roofer with knowledge and professional experience.

Victorian-style homes, often painted in strong shades of blue, red and green, work best with slate-look shingles in gray, brown or tan.

Modern

Found in neighborhoods across the country, including the Chicago area, modern or contemporary homes emphasize clean lines, open spaces, large windows, and simple, low-pitched roof lines. Many modern-style homes even have flat roofs.

To enhance the simplicity of the architecture, select a roof color in gray, black, or brown and a shingle roofer who’s knowledgeable about drainage issues with these roof styles.

Local Chicago Area Shingle Roofer

Adams Roofing is a local family-owned business. We pride ourselves on excellent customer service that you can trust and have received numerous awards and certifications such as Angie’s List and GAF Master Elite. Let us help you choose the right roof for your style of home.

Contact Adams Roofing Professionals for your next roofing job.

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Jeremy Q, CMCA, AMS

Adams Roofing has a great team to work perfectly with condo and townhome Associations. We are currently in the middle of a 6 year, 49 building tear-off project. Adams works hand in hand with the engineers, delivers according to the specifications, and provides great customer service to the homeowners and management team.... [more]

Sue T.

Good Afternoon, I am writing to you on behalf of the Mission Hills M-8 Association. I would like to tell you how happy we are with the work that you completed for our Association. Your supervisor Eddie was great. We liked his professionalism and his work ethic. He kept us informed, and delivered on all his promises. Please make sure that any other jobs you do for us include him. Best regards, Joey Mission Hills Management... [more]

Brett K.

Charlie, Thanks very much for replacing the gutter! No one has been out to do it, at least before I left for work this morning. But I will definitely let you know whether it’s done correctly. I am very satisfied with your roofing job. It looks great, and more importantly, there were no leaks when it rained (even though we haven’t gotten really hard rains yet). So, I have been very pleased with my experience with Adams, especially with the professionalism and responsiveness of you and Dan. Thanks.... [more]

Keith M.

I wanted to take a moment to comment on your technician, Eddie. Eddie was assigned to inspect a roof leak I am having in my home in Cobblestone Circle. He was prompt, professional, courteous and informative; everything a customer could ask for when inviting a contractor into their home. Eddie represents Adams Roofing Well; and clearly he is an asset to your company. Kudos to him! Thank you.... [more]

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