Often when you start building a home, your first thoughts are on the design, layout, the materials that will be used, and who you will work with. In all of the excitement of creating your Lindal custom home, the one thing that can be overlooked is the roof!

The roof is what keeps your designs, layout, and more safe from the elements. Apart from the foundation and structure, the roof is the most crucial part of your custom home.

Lindal Western Homes, allows you to be apart of the entire design process, from start to finish. This means that you can choose the layout and flooring, but you will work with Barb and Doug to select the perfect roof for your custom home. One of the great things about Lindal's house floor plans is that they can be used to create just about any home style you want. Regardless of the floor plan you choose, based on the exterior siding materials and the pitch of your roof, you can build a home that looks traditional, modern, or somewhere in between.

Types of Roofs

There are many different types of roofs that you and your family can choose from for your custom Lindal home. Here are a few popular types of roofs:

Shed Roof (Mono-pitched Roof)

This style of roof originated in the 1960's by the designs from architects Charles Willard Moore and Robert Venturi. It is characterized by an overall asymmetry with sharp lines, a one- to two-story height, and a seamless roof and wall intersection.

Folded Roof

This type of roof looks precisely what as it sounds. It is a roofing system that is chosen for its high weight-bearing capacity and durability. First used in Germany in the 1920's, then in the U.S in the 1930's they were initially designed to be used in for commercial buildings. 

Gable Roof

This roof style is one of the more popular styles of roofs used in homes. It is the classic, most commonly occurring roof shape in parts of the world with cold or temperate climates, like Canada and especially the Western Canadian provinces. It has two roof sections sloping in opposite directions and placed such that the highest, horizontal edges meet to form the roof ridge.

Folded Roof              Shed Roof                     Gable Roof

Remember that when choosing your preferred roof style, you have to take into account the climate of where you are building your home. A client who lives in Victoria and Saskatoon will have different roof styles due to the climate and day to day weather of where they are located. A flat roof may not be the optimal choice for your custom Lindal Home if you live in a place where you get a lot of snow every year.

To learn about how you can build a Custom Lindal Home with Lindal, call us at 1-855-554-6325 (1-855-5 LINDAL) or register your interest here: Register with Lindal

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Building A Custom Home in Calgary

There are so many reasons to build a custom home in Calgary. Calgary has beautiful neighborhoods, the mountains are less than 2 hours away, and of course, there is Stampede! Another reason is that interest rates are the lowest they have been in decades.

Imagine Series - Lindal Homes

Another great reason to build or start planning your custom home in Calgary is that you can build a Lindal Imagine home. Lindal Cedar Homes has partnered with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to launch this fantastic new series of homes. These houses are inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian homes and have been updated for modern living. These Usonian homes were built to be affordable and customizable to the middle class, many of these houses are single level, which means less to heat in the cold Calgary winters! They emphasize functional floor plans, low-pitched roofs, and deep overhangs.

When building your Frank Lloyd Wright Inspire home, you will be able to choose from seven different designs, all premium materials pre-engineered, and coming with a lifetime warranty to give you peace of mind. These homes are also pre-fab, meaning all you have to do is choose and finalize your design with Doug or Barb and buy your plot of land. Your home will be shipped there and assembled on your property!

For the new series, Lindal wanted the home designs to meet the needs and lifestyles of today's families, deeply rooted in Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Organic Architecture' principles of harmony, sustainability, and integration with nature. These homes are designed with spaces for quiet reflection and exuberant celebration.

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LEARN HOW YOU CAN BUILD AND PLAN YOUR DREAM HOME: CALL (403) 452-5511 OR CONTACT US TODAY

Are you searching for a Country Life with Big City accessibility?  On 40 acres you can stretch out and enjoy your privacy, while enjoying beautiful views, perhaps have horses and a riding stable....maybe even a business - a market garden?  Dream on.....Country Life with close proximity to Saskatoon, the largest growing city in Canada within 40 minutes on a major highway.  Let us build your dream....Land and Home ...Building the home of our dreams, with a Lifetime Structural Warranty, with 7 decades of Lindal expertise and success, and 50,000 plus homes all over the world!  Any architectural style, we do it all!  Isn't it about time?  You deserve it! Call us 888-505-1337 (Barb ext 1// Doug ext 2)