Wills Casa

One of the biggest reasons we cut the upstairs was to free up enough money to get a tile roof. We longed for a cream house with a dark tile roof. We went to see our color options on the way to ice skating one Saturday.

Unfortunately they were closed. We just looked from the gate and decided we wanted the top right option on the first pallet of clay S tiles. We couldn’t read the name, so I just told my builder it was the darkest option out there. Real precise I know.

He said it was Dark Bordeaux. It’s the same tile that’s on the roof of his office building. I looked at it, and I said that doesn’t look right. It has too much brown. He said it was the darkest option we had.

I got a text about a week later asking what color the tile roof was going to be. I said check with Daniel (our builder) he knows. I was at my doctor’s office for a typical baby check up, and I just couldn’t get over the feeling that I needed to check on the tile color again.

I called the roof supply store. The lady went to check on the board for the color. It was Charcoal (right), and she told me it was a newer color choice. I texted that info along but decided to swing by the store just to double check. Sure enough Charcoal was what we wanted. Whew, seriously bullet dodged right?

Then this showed up at the house about the time I was meeting the electrician. Immediately I knew it wasn’t right. It was gray like concrete gray.

I checked the tag. Birchwood?? What?!? Of course they were just unloading the last pallet of tile roof when I showed up. At least it wasn’t going up on the roof yet. I immediately went to my builder and told him the roof was wrong. His face fell. Y’all this is an expensive mistake. And we weren’t about to just roll with the wrong roof color after we sacrificed our entire upstairs finish out for it.

Our builder got on the phone and fixed it, so up went the correct tile roof. Pretty charcoal. Here’s the bump + project picture to track the progress. (Obviously we are very behind on the house progress blogging since Beckett is now a month old!)

Yep there’s brick too. Ignore the color. Remember we are painting it!

With the tile roof and the foam insulation, the house was noticeably cooler during the last of our extremely hot Texas days. Aren’t you excited for us to move in and tell you all about how low our electrical bills are? Yeah me too.