Owens Corning Design & Inspire Style Boards

Owens Corning Design & Inspire Style Boards

Explore curated style boards pairing Duration® Series Shingles with complementary exterior colors. Each board is designed to help you visualize complete curb-appeal transformations for your Houston home.

Design EyeQ® Roof Visualizer

Want to see Owens Corning shingles on your home? The Design EyeQ® tool lets you upload a photo and digitally try on different shingle colors and profiles with realistic before-and-after comparisons.

How Owens Corning Design & Inspire Style Boards Guide Your Color Choice

Owens Corning Design & Inspire style boards take the guesswork out of pairing a shingle color with your home's brick, siding, stone, and trim. Instead of judging a single swatch in isolation, each board presents a complete exterior palette, so you can see how a roof color reads against the rest of the house. Because most Houston homes sit in full sun, the same shingle can look noticeably different in soft morning light than it does under harsh midday glare — which is exactly why a curated pairing helps you commit with confidence.

The boards are built around the TruDefinition® Duration® Series, which offers a wide range of blended, high-contrast colors. Every Duration Series shingle also includes StreakGuard® algae-resistance protection — an important detail on the Gulf Coast, where humidity and frequent rain feed the blue-green algae that leaves black streaks on unprotected roofs. Keeping the color you chose looking like the color you chose is half the value of a smart pairing. Compare shades side by side on our shingle colors guide before you narrow the list.

Matching Style to the Houston Climate

Curb appeal is only part of the decision — the right board also reflects how a shingle stands up to our heat, hail, and wind. Owens Corning builds several Duration Series options for exactly these conditions:

• TruDefinition® Duration® — architectural shingles with SureNail® Technology, a triple-layer reinforced nailing zone that helps deliver wind resistance up to 130 mph.
• Duration® COOL — solar-reflecting granules that reflect the sun's rays to help keep the home cooler; these colors are rated by the Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC) for solar reflectance.
• Duration® STORM® — impact-resistant shingles that meet UL 2218 Class 4, the highest impact-resistance classification in that standard.

Choosing a color you love and a performance level suited to our climate are two sides of the same decision, and the style boards make it easier to weigh both at once.

From Style Board to Your Roof

Think of a style board as the starting point, not the finish line. Once a palette catches your eye, use our Build Your Roof tool to layer the components together, and plan the budget with our roof cost calculator. As a certified Owens Corning installer, RISE Roofing can walk you through Duration Series colors and the SureNail-backed performance behind each one — and help you weigh warranty options for the full roofing system.

From Screen to Reality

The visualizer is a great starting point, but nothing replaces seeing real shingle samples against your actual home. After using the Design & Inspire tool, schedule a free consultation — we bring physical color samples directly to your property.