Roof cor­ner with primed wood

Finally a roof!

It seems like an eter­nity since it first became appar­ent the roof would be claim­ing first pri­or­ity in the Bun­galoft project. But a big sigh of relief came over me fol­low­ing a day in the rain installing shin­gles with my roofer Mike Black and his helper. One day later it was essen­tially done. I still have to nicely trim the shin­gles at the edges and fin­ish the varge rafter treat­ment but wor­ries about rain and wind are now a thing of the past.

Lisa and I had spent some time look­ing at roof­ing mate­r­ial options. The var­ie­gated appear­ance of the com­mon archi­tec­tural style shin­gles was par­tic­u­larly unap­peal­ing. Soon we found that we had to look at some­what more expen­sive shin­gles with a more uni­form color but a more exag­ger­ated phys­i­cal appearance.

Since we had a color scheme in mind, the shin­gle color selec­tion fell into place easily.

Once we got these shin­gles on the roof  it was clear we would be happy with our choice.

Now it’s on to the sid­ing. The next big adventure.