On the right you see the many fancy cut decorative shingle styles to choose from.
Victorian roof shingles.
While asphalt roofs weren t used during the victorian period they can be made to resemble victorian style roofing such as wood shakes or slate.
Spanish clay tiles for example won t be a good match for a victorian period home.
This versatile product can be used in residential or commercial applications over solid wood sheathing on both roofs and walls making it ideal for restoration projects or new construction requiring a historic victorian or classical traditional feel.
Victorian architects managed to use common cedar shingles to wildly decorative effect.
It is as vincent scully put it the architecture of the american summer.
Flexibility at low temperature and app modified bitumen.
At times you will see only one style on a house but many times different shingles styles will alternate in rows.
The berridge victorian and classic shingles create a traditional design look.
Architects cherish its grand informality colonial revivalists appreciate its simple forms and classical allusions and neo victorians exult in its embrace of islamic and japanese forms alongside georgian.
The advantages mentioned above also count for armourglass plus rectangular shaped and diamant plus triangular shaped 2 iko roof shingles that offer the same quality as the rounded victorian plus the biggest advantages of these 3 types of iko plus shingles are uv protection.
These architects took simple pieces of wood albeit ones handsomely cut across their butt ends and placed them in rows to form distinctive patterns that managed to draw the eyes of observers as effectively as a wolf whistle turns heads on a crowded street.
Asphalt shingles can also come in varying shapes and sizes for added victorian appeal and durability.
A rarefied style in the 19th century the victorian era shingle style is one beloved today.
So we need to repaint our 1980s victorian here in maine this summer peeling paint plus the homeowner we just bought it.