a copper roof for christmas
The farmhouse got a copper roof for Christmas! We have wanted a copper roof over the front porch of the farmhouse ever since we renovated the house and added the composite roof, but at the time it wasn't financially feasible. Since removing the black exterior shutters this past summer when we repainted the house HERE we felt the house would look especially fabulous with a front portch copper roof. We also have a couple of places where we desperately need gutters, over the front door being one, where water run off was causing damage. For those of you who don't live in a cold/snowy climate gutters in the north are a love/hate item. You love them until the snow melts and creates ice damns and the weight of the ice pulls the gutters off the house, then you hate them. You could call them a necessary evil. I would guess that the majority of houses here do not have them. This past summer we got serious about copper gutters and roof and sought out bids from several companies/individuals (that were across the board crazy btw.) We decided upon which roofing company to go with, then... as we are wont to do ? with projects after a busy project-filled summer, we got tired, then lazy and simply let the roof slide off our to-do list. Then we were really bummed as we watched copper prices quickly started to inch their way up, thinking we had missed the copper boat. A week before Christmas the metal...
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