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Open from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday
4009 Crosswinds Drive
This stunning two-story home has all the curb appeal you seek, complete with white picket fence! Stately interior has heavily detailed moldings- crown, chair, base everywhere you look. Fresh paint, all new vinyl flooring and all new plush carpet your feet will sink into! There are three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, hardwoods in formal dining room and a two-story foyer with an elegant stairway. The great side entrance is an ideal drop zone for all life’s stuff!
Come see fer ye’self Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and find your pot o’ gold! Offer’d at $128,000. Directions: established neighborhood is close to all conveniences. take Halifax road to Ketch Point Drive. right on carybrook road. Left on crosswinds Drive. Lovely two story white home with presence will be on the right. open from 2 to 4 p.m. on sunday.
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Roofs get some creativity and color for spring By DIANA MARSZALEK Associated Press
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When a 2011 storm destroyed their black shingle roof, Carol and Ray Knoff of Vinton, Iowa, opted to replace it with a roof in vintage Victorian colors: a clay-like red and gray. Victorian homes typically had red slate roofs, which weathered gray over time, so the blend worked, says Carol Knoff. “It took Vinton a while to like it,” she says, but the neighbors have since come around. The 1901 house is among several Victorians built when Vinton housed one of the world’s largest canneries. Many homeowners these days are shunning monotone roofs of brown, black and gray and perking things up with color – blues, reds, purples, greens or combinations of those hues.
“A lot of people are going with roofs that stand out on their own,” says Kate Smith, a Newport, R.I.-based color consultant. “They want something different that expresses them and expresses their personality.” Which could be a tricky proposition, says Smith: “You want to stand out while still fitting into your neighborhood,” she says. She admits to being taken aback herself when colored roofs first came into vogue several years ago. Exterior home color should always be used judiciously, she says. But it is even more crucial to use it correctly when you’re adding it to a large fixed feature, like a roof, that is not easily changed with a fresh coat of
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paint. “Anything that’s permanent needs to blend,” she says. “You don’t want to have too many colors that aren’t working together.” One trick for doing that, Smith says, is to select roof colors true to your home’s history and architecture, and in natural shades. For instance, Victorian homes originally had colored roofs – reds, orange, purple and green were typical – because the color of the slate varied so much, she says. Homeowners wanting to restore that look should match those subtle tones. “When you saw purple, it was not a bright Barney purple,” she says. Bright metal roofs – most often red or green – are better suited for farmhouse-style homes, or
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A red and gray colored roof replaced a storm damaged black one at Carol and Ray Knoff’s home in Vinton, Iowa. The colors, produced by DaVinci Roofscapes, are typical of the original roofs on Victorian homes.
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