We drew up the plans found a builder who would frame it out for us and take care of excavation and foundation. Since the roof was only going to be a small section originally I thought I could take the shingles off the back of the house so they would match perfectly. My builder advised against this as the damage would be too much.  So I began a hunt to find the perfect matching shingle. I began by going to the Home Depot and Lowe’s in my area around Providence and looking for shingle samples. I know I had an architectural shingle I’m at the roof of been done in the past 10 years as it looked newer but I wasn’t sure who the manufacturer was. I decided I was going to focus on the big names, GAF, Owens Corning, Certainteed, IKO and Elk. I started with GAF Fox Hollow gray color and brought a sample home and laid it on the roof. It was close but I noticed that my roof have light and dark gray sprinkled throughout in the Fox Hollow shingle was more of a gradient. Next they tried Owens Corning gray but it was much darker than my roof shingle. Even accounting for the sun bleaching it a little overtime. I finally found my match with the IKO Do dual gray shingle. I laid it down on the roof and it was a perfect match just a slight shade darker which accounting for the age of my roof but that was probably the original color. I ended up buying about two squares of shingles along with some drip edge and ice and water shield. My spring got really busy though and I decided to look up roofing contractors rhode island for others to take care of the job for me and I’m glad I did. I got a fair price and they were in and out in a day, dumpsters and permits included. Best decision ever.