Brownwood Two-Story Roof Replacement in Akron, OH August 2026
A large two-story home with a brick chimney, a skylight and a roofline cut into many planes, finished in Brownwood architectural shingles.
- Akron, Ohio
- August 2026
- Brownwood Two-Story Roof Replacement
- 2 finished photos
Finished job photos
Akron project gallery
Aerial view of the full front of the home showing the hips, valleys and several roof planes in Brownwood shingles
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Scope
What we did
- Replaced the roof with Owens Corning Duration architectural shingles in Brownwood
- Laid new shingles around the brick chimney and the skylight
- Finished every hip and ridge with matching cap shingles
- Photographed the finished roof for the homeowner's record
At a glance
- Roof
- Owens Corning Duration architectural shingles
- Colors
- Brownwood
- Walls
- Light-colored exterior with a brick chimney
- Setting
- Large lot with mature trees
In the photos
What you are looking at
This house has more roof than most. The main body steps down into lower sections, a front gable and several hips, and every one of those meets another plane at a valley or a ridge. Those joints are where a roof is easiest to get wrong, so they are where we look first in the finished photos.
From above, the Brownwood shingles read as one even field of warm brown. The courses run straight across each plane, the ridge caps follow the lines of the hips, and nothing sits crooked next to the chimney or the skylight.
The color suits the light exterior and the mature trees around the lot. A warm brown like this tends to look best on homes with earth tones, and it avoids the stark contrast a black roof would have against a light wall.
