Yes, but does it match faux brick and vinyl siding? Outside of Greece or ancient Greek outposts there aren't many places in the world that use white roofs. There's nothing wrong with it but it would take a lot of change in attitudes of what looks "normal" to people. Over here I think of roofs as either clay tile, slate or sometimes (in Normandy) grass/thatch. In the States I think of gray synthetic tiles or slate. Once people got over the look, then there's the cost of doing the roof. Maybe during the building process though, whenever that starts again. The Independent:
Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, said yesterday that making roofs and pavements white or light-coloured would help to reduce global warming by both conserving energy and reflecting sunlight back into space. It would, he said, be the equivalent of taking all the cars in the world off the road for 11 years.
Speaking in London prior to a meeting of some of the world's best minds on how to combat climate change, Dr Chu said the simple act of painting roofs white could have a dramatic impact on the amount of energy used to keep buildings comfortable, as well as directly offsetting global warming by increasing the reflectivity of the Earth.
"If that building is air-conditioned, it's going to be a lot cooler, it can use 10 or 15 per cent less electricity," he said. "You also do something in that you change the albedo of the Earth – you make it more reflective. So the sunlight comes down and it actually goes back up – there is no greenhouse effect," Dr Chu said.
