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COLOR AND CURB APPEAL

What’s your favorite color? Chances are, there’s a way to work it into your home’s roof in a way that expresses your personal style and improve your home’s curb appeal.

Each week, mother and daughter remodelers Karen E. Laine and Mina Starsiak inspire HGTV’s “Good Bones” viewers with their colorful home transformations. Karen and Mina, founders of Indianapolis-based Two Chicks and a Hammer, have used Owens Corning® TruDefinition® Duration® Designer Shingles in televised remodels and even on their personal remodeling projects. Below, Karen and Mina get “personal” about color and how the right shingle color can boost a home’s curb appeal.

Karen E. Laine and Mina Starsiak

A Q&A WITH TWO CHICKS AND A HAMMER

For more ideas to help design and inspire your home's exterior, visit www.roofingfashioncolors.com

Create an exterior Mood board

Karen and Mina of Two Chicks and a Hammer invite you to the kitchen table as they demonstrate how building an exterior mood board can help homeowners select the perfect Owens Corning roof for their home.

"We recently put a Merlot roof on the bluish purple “barn” that serves as my guest house and it looks amazing. The red and blue embedded into the Merlot shingle looks beautiful next to the purple siding on my guest house and the red pays “homage” to the gamble roof. My Merlot roof doesn’t scream for attention. Instead the shingle color whispers, 'Aren’t I beautiful?' And I whisper back, 'Yes!'"

Karen Laine
HGTV's 'Good Bones'

Owens Corning® Style Boards

Want to explore ways to work your roof color into your home’s exterior palette? Click here to see a wide variety of color combinations.

ABOUT TWO CHICKS AND A HAMMER

Karen E. Laine and Mina Starsiak are Two Chicks and a Hammer, Inc.

”We began rehabbing houses in our neighborhood near downtown Indianapolis in 2007. In the process, we discovered a skill set and passion for neighborhood rehabilitation, one house at a time. We found that we could do well by doing good! In 2014 our company was found by High Noon Entertainment, who filmed a pilot for HGTV. The pilot aired in May 2015 under the name “Two Chicks and a Hammer”.

In July 2015 we began filming the first season of the show now known as “Good Bones”. We began filming a second season in 2016, which is airing in May 2017.

Follow Two Chicks and a Hammer on Facebook and Instagram as TwoChicksandaHammer, on Twitter and Snapchat as Twochicksindy, and on Pinterest as Two Chicks and a Hammer/Good Bones.