Recent Residential Projects

A photo album of the season's residential work, with the stories behind the shingles and seams, because every roof on this list started with a homeowner, a concern, and a ladder we were happy to climb.

In Stillwater, a century-old foursquare received a stone-coated shake roof in weathered cedar tones, the historic society approved, the homeowners celebrated, and the third-story dormer finally stopped its decade-long drip. In Maple Grove, a 1990s rambler traded its curling asphalt for standing seam in slate grey; the owners report the attic is cooler and the dog has a new hobby, watching snow slide off in ribbons.

A St. Louis Park mid-century modern got the treatment it deserved: low-profile standing seam with hidden fasteners, running in clean lines that the architect son-in-law pronounced correct, which we understand is the highest local honor. And in Cottage Grove, a hail-scarred asphalt roof became a stone-coated tile look-alike, with the insurance paperwork completed alongside the homeowners from claim to settlement.

Every album entry ends the same way: a free inspection that told the truth, a written proposal that held its price, and a crew that swept the lawn with magnets until it squeaked. That is the house style, in every sense.