Missouri has 2-3 times as many heating degree days (about 5,000) as cooling degree days (about 1,700) so I would opt for a darker color to keep the roof warm.

First and foremost, congratulations! The property looks lovely and the process of making it your own is very exciting. Since you are located in Missouri, a darker color roof would be ideal. Adding a dark brown with some red undertones, will create the aesthetic that you are seeking. The house would look lovely with a lighter paint color on the siding. I would also recommend painting the shutters in a complimentary tone to marry the brick and the new roof color to create a very balanced and cohesive exterior.

Have fun and enjoy the journey while you make this house a home!

Go with red. I choose a creamy colour which I love but my house is blue/grey. My second choice would be red. I think metal roofs are great.

Go with the basic silver metal roof. All of the colors, especially the darker ones get chalky looking down the road and restrict the colors you can use if you decide to change the colors of your house. Plus I have had metal roofs for 25 years with no problems with cell service.

I got a red roof and wish I had not. It was horrible to find a house color that was complimentary, and it increased our a/c usage. Stick with a neutral roof, and put the red on the walls...paint is cheaper than reroofing!

Why a metal roof? Such a pretty home, I'd hate to see a metal roof on it.

Before I scrolled down the comments, I had "some kind of dark grey or charcoal" in mind... Then I saw Margaret Powers' house! Something like this! It still depends if you want to change the colour of the facade, or the shutters... Grey is neutral... (If you sell the house) and it's also a great colour to match with! There's tons of grey shades (brownish, greenish... ). Hope you'll be satisfied with your choice!

Look to your past interior decorating choices to decide. I've learned that keeping expensive, long-lasting items in neutral colors is the wisest move. One can change out pillows, hall rugs, paintings, knick-knacks, etc., as one's taste fluctuates. Years ago, I liked Victorian styles, grapes, purples, greens, et al. Then it was contrasts with creams and dark beiges. Now it's spa-clean with lighter greens, yet red and yellow in the dining/kitchen areas. Think about it. You can change the color of your home's exterior, but metal roofs are a costly item to replace. Although I LOVE the idea of a red roof, if you decide some years down the road that a lovely green with white-framed windows would be great, it could wind up looking like a Christmas house with a red roof. I vote to keep a neutral roof. Bring in reds to the garden area, porch chairs, or the front door. Those can be changed easily as your design esthetics do!

I would do anything but red! I would paint your house a nice light neutral, and then do a standard silver metal roof. Much more pleasing to the eye, and way better for resale.

I think the red would be nice. I love a metal roof.

We had our metal roof installed several years ago and chose a lovely chocolate brown and we love it. I think your home would look great with either colour. Also I've never had issues cellular reception because of a metal roof.

Two things: I live in Australia where Colourbond metal roofs are very common. They can be repainted if you get tired of the original colour. We lived near a guy who bought a house with a bright orange roof: he had it repainted a dark grey, and it was still looking good 9 years later. And we ourselves had a metal roof - no issues with mobile phone reception at all.

We just put a metal roof on our barn. Looks great, but no cell phone service from the Man Cave now. We also have a TV Antenna up in the rafters of the barn that feed back to the house. Well, sad to say we lost that too.

Metal roofs require more maintenance. this one was a 30 year life time but the first year required constant caulking due to the heat and cold expansion. it was impossible to keep the area around the chimney water tight. The insulation you see was a soaking mess, never dried and eventually leaked into the house. The washers in the screws wore out, leaving a metal roof to move with the wind, caulking didn't work anymore, so eventually replaced it with a traditional asphalt. Beware, there was No plywood installed, roofers did these flimsy 1x1's with 1 1/2 on screws, does not last.

Your new metal roof doesn't have to look like metal! Our products come with a 50 year warranty.. they're that good!

I don't have an opinion about what colour you should use on your roof, but I do think you would be wise to look around extensively at other metal-roofed houses in your area.

In our area, northern BC, Canada, metal has been used for years and it is interesting to see how it has aged - much of it not very well. Dark brown in particular seems to have faded to a dingy, dusty-looking finish, but many red roofs have turned a rather nasty orange colour, and some dark green roofs have faded to a fairly violent green. The sheen that originally made these roofs attractive is gone. Re-painting of metal roofs seems to be on-going, as does replacing. For these reasons I have personally steered clear of metal.

It could be that new technology now ensures that colours aren't so transient. I hope so.

We used dark green and at first I was a little apprehensive about the extreme shine ( fresh from the factory ). We found the shine to be easing within a very short time and i love my green roof. Cell phone reception has not been a problem. We roofed over existing shingles in good condition and it very quiet even during torrential summer rains. The attic has stayed much cooler in the summer adding to our energy savings.

I have seen some lovely blues, they are modern, hip and do not scream barn.

we did the autumn red color metal roof 2 years ago and still in love with it♡

I notice a red truck in the second photo? Is it yours? Hmm...

I beg to differ with BC Canada comment that the finishes fade to such extremes, although years and years ago there were some cheap offshore products on the market. Nowadays the finishes are extremely durable and long lasting with perhaps small tolerable degree of fading over its very long lasting life.

Metal roofing is still superb product and permanent/ lifetime roofing solution compared to short lasting, prone to curl, fly off, etc asphalt shingles!!

We live in the northeast U.S. where snow build up on roofs can be a big problem. Here,people tend to go with darker metal roofs nowadays, tough older installations were often silver. Those earlier metal roofs were not the quality you see nowadays with standing seam metal roofs, and some of those lok pretty shabby. I haven't seen any discoloration in newer roofs. We have a mid-century cape and installed a dark red metal roof which looks great. At the time our house was gray, but we recently resided with a cream/light yellow vinyl siding. I was initially a bit dubious about the color combo, but it actually loks very nice--very fresh and clean. (And it's wonderful not to have to worry about the snow and ice and roof leaking we used to have.)

We had a neighbor at the lake who painted his 2 story home white and used the red roof. It was very beautiful. We personally used a white paint with a green roof and shutters because i wanted that southern colonial/tropical island look. I think if you paint your house white, you can easily go with your choice of color to achieve the look and feel YOU want.

@chiflipper--no problem with cell phones under metal roofs in our mountain town. We have one and there is absolutely no difference from the asphalt roof we replaced.

I just replaced my roof on my red brick ranch house. we drove all over the place looking st new roofs. i hated to use black (too stark and heat absorbing) and I was thinking charcoal grey which would have been a safe choice. The problem is every solid roof I saw a variegated style that I loved. It has grey tones with hints of red. We did see one house with that color combo and loved it. I t will also not show mold or wear marks as much. I picked Williamsburg Slate but there is one in variegated brown tones also. The shingles are also long lasting and my contractor is higher level certified so my warranty is way longer. My contractor also nailed different shingles on the old roof for me to observe on my roof for a few weeks.

I hate posting from my "smart phone" because editing and rereading your post is so difficult lol. my post above has a fragmented sentence. I was trying to say that all the light to medium solid color roofs we saw has stain marks from wear and /or mold. The variegated colors didn't have that problem. Here is the nice small house we saw with the roof that I chose. I don't have full house pics of my own home yet.

If you want and like red, then go with the barn red. You already have the red truck! You might want to consider painting the front door the same color as the roof and adding some landscape shrubbery that flowers with red blossoms or has leaves that change color with the seasons (one color being red/maroon leaves).

Mine is a maroon. However, like mine, it looks like yours has trees surrounding it, and you will get a coat of pollen on it in the spring which turns it a bit yellow, so brown might be safer. Also be aware that stuff does stick to it, and it's very slippery, especially if wet, so cleaning it can be difficult. I wear beach shoes when it's totally dry out and then can manage on my 4 in 12 pitch. The steeper part of the roof does stay cleaner, but the other part gets gobs of fir needles, bits of pitch and lichens actually grow on the shady side - FYI - not as easy care as I'd hoped.

Wish I could afford a new metal roof! Mueller metal just quoted me $24,000 for a metal roof on a simple 1500 sq ft house! They quoted $8800. I think they don't need the business! Getting another quote!!

I have a modular home with a Country Blue steel roof. Never had any leaking problems, Never had any fading problems......You will be so happy with your steel roof !!

I had been intrigued by the idea of a metal roof, but because the price quoted was more than two times what a GAF HD asphalt shingle roof was, I went with the shingle. Still love the way metal roofs look, but with the improved 35-40 year warranties on asphalt shingle, it wasn't worth double the expense to me for the metal.

Red! I'm on acreage and did a red roof. We love it. People we don't even know drive up and tell us they love the house. Red is more fun than brown, grey, etc. Go with what you love!

My house is a light green on a lakeshore. We went with a light gray metal color, It blends in with the sky. I think a dark color roof "holds the house down", what I mean is that too much emphasis is on the roof and not the house itself.

We just put on a standing seam metal roof. We used Englert products. We chose the black, which is actually a beautiful charcoal gray that changes in the light. Perfect on our Greek revival/Italianate hybrid house, painted white. I just need to pick a fun front door color! P.S. No cell phone problems.

We live in South Florida and recently replaced our tile roof with a metal roof. We went with a forest green color, our house paint is cream with dark brown & light green trim. We love it! However, we did pay for extra insulation (thick styrofoam) to help with noise reduction & heat barrier. Our electric bill has gone down at least $75 a month! The extra insulation is pricey but will definitely pay for itself. Good luck! PS: Go with the red if that's what your heart tells you! You'll love it.

We chose a brown metal roof. The color is called Burnished Slate - it has a bit of green undertone instead of a chocolate-y color. Our house is light brown with off-white trim and lots of stone. The deck railings match the the roof color. Our neighbors have green roofs so we wanted to be different, but still blend with the woods. No effect on our cell phone reception. There is a HUGE price difference between standing seam and screw-down. Nothing wrong with screw-down - that is what most people have here.

After speaking to the roofer, I'm actually leaning toward the burnished slate.

We have standing seam "Aged Cooper" color which still looks good even when it's dirty. Only downside to metal is it's noisy when it rains (even with lots of insulation) and when it's windy our neighbors redwood tree drops little pinecones on it and it sounds like rocks. We have to move to the guest room since it keeps us up.

ours isn't noisy at all.

I went with black in NH, big mistake, in winter the roof held the snow, so it did not heat the place in the winter, but did heat it up in the summer....awww. Go with light color and have low AC bills.

I am in Texas. Homeowners that have had problems, those roofs were not installed properly. Be sure to get a reputable installer. They should be screwed down, NO caulking, 26 gauge minimum... Get a color you really, really love. A metal roof is forever.

Ours is not noisy. It is installed against the plywood sub-roof (over ice and water shield).

Dark brown roof and paint the front door and garage doors red.

I would strongly recommend the standing seam metal roofs rather than the screw down type, especially if you have harsh winters and/or a lot of rain. They may be more costly, but wear and look better in the long run. I hardly see the screw down metal roofs at all any more where we live, and even modest houses with metal roofs have the standing seam type. As to noise, we have good insulation below the roof and don't hear any noise other than when the snow slides off--which sounds like a rumbling avalanche! The one downside for us is that the volume and velocity of the snow sliding off damaged our woody shrubs in the front of the house, so we've had them dug up and will redo our front garden with perennials and a few annuals instead of shrubs. (I know some people use little protective structures over shrubs in the winter to protect from snow.ice, but we decided to just do away with shrubs.)

I would say do what you want. You can always change the exterior siding and shutters if it doesn't work well together. You could paint your shutters a 'toned-down' version of that color and it might be enough to work really well together. FYI: your home as so many built w/shutters really could use some wider shutters, they should be wide enough to actually cover the windows as if they were working shutters. That would make a dramatic difference to your curb appeal. Good luck

We are currently building a new house and after much research I chose a metal roof, for many reasons. I would never, ever waste money on an asphalt roof. For one thing, those roofs leach chemicals into the water runoff so if you ever want to harvest your rainwater you can't. And you can replace them 3 or more times over the same lifetime of a metal roof so not worth the savings in the long run. A good metal roof (just like everything there are cheap, crappy ones and good quality ones) will last your lifetime so is definitely worth the investment. Also, if installed properly by a capable and knowledgable crew you should have absolutely no problems with leaks - that is an issue of flashing and installation, nothing to do with the metal roof itself. As for the cell phone reception comment, this person may be confusing materials - while our house is being built we are living in a mobile home with a cheap aluminum roof (nothing like what we are putting on the new house) AND metal studs and yes, we have very poor cell reception in the home because we are essentially living in a Faraday cage! Finally, as for colour I chose to go with clear-coated galvalume. The coloured ones are galvalume that has been coated with a paint layer. The lower-end colours do fade over time, but there are some high-end (read: expensive) ones that are more durable. Red roofs are nice but IMO they are a trend that comes and goes and as someone else says it drastically limits your choice of siding colours should you wish to change that in the future. Neutrals are great - for us the clear-coated was a great fit with our rough cedar siding, but some of the darker greys are lovely too. Skip anything too bright - you will tire of it long before it needs replacing - I've seen a few powder blue metal roofs around here that at some point must have been on trend but I find them rather hideous.

I understand the new asphalt shingle roofs are guaranteed for 35-40 years, (can't remember which, exactly) and metal roofs for 50, so you don't replace them 3 or more times over the lifetime of the metal roof. Metal is more than 2 1/2 times the cost. That was the information I found during my research, and confirmed by a roofer who installs both. Just fyi.

Shingles don't last that long in the Texas sun! Metal only lasts 30 years at the most!

I absolutely LOVE a white house with red roof! This house depicts warm brick and black shutters which you can see all creates a classic, traditional look. I notice some of your windows have black panes so you already have a tie in with shutters. In your pictorial setting, I say go for the gusto and you will have no regrets!

Go with red,I think it will be very beautiful with green trees.╮(╯▽╰)╭