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The challenge

A storm broke shingles across the roof of this lakeside home, opening it to the next round of weather. The dated taupe stucco, red brick, and grey-green siding already looked tired — so patching the roof alone would have left a mismatched exterior behind.

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Our approach

Rather than patch the broken shingles, we tore off and replaced the entire roof — then carried the work straight into a full exterior refresh. Stucco, brick, and siding were repainted together, so the whole elevation changed in one coordinated pass.

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The results

The home came back as a modern farmhouse in a bold white-and-charcoal palette over new shingles. Painted brick, dark tudor gables, and crisp trim replaced the taupe and red, and the lakeside deck now reads clean against the mature oaks.

Cause of loss: storm damage — wind and hail that broke shingles across the roof. Scope: full roof replacement with a whole-exterior repaint. Style direction: modern farmhouse, bold white-and-charcoal contrast.

A broken roof leaves a house open to the next storm, so the shingles could not wait. But with a crew already staged around the whole exterior, replacing the roof and repainting the siding, stucco, and brick in one pass meant far less disruption than treating them as two separate projects.

That sequencing is what turned a storm repair into a transformation. The dated taupe stucco, red brick, and grey-green siding gave way to a white-and-charcoal palette, dark tudor gables, and painted brick — a modern farmhouse look that carries from the front elevation down to the lakeside deck. It is the pattern behind most storm damage repair: the moment the exterior is already open is the moment it can come back better than before.

Before & After

Front gable & new roof
Taupe stucco gable mid-roof-replacement, with a ladder to the ridge and torn-off shingles scattered across the lawn after storm damageBefore
The same gable with new shingles and the stucco repainted charcoal with dark tudor timber trimAfter
Lakeside deck elevation
Grey-green lap siding and white trim on the lakeside deck elevation, above a boulder retaining wall, before the exterior refreshBefore
The same deck elevation repainted with white board-and-batten and charcoal siding above the boulder wall and mature oakAfter

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