Really-Not-All-That-Dramatic Home Makeover

Here is our house the day before they put on our new energy-efficient roof (you can see the roofing materials waiting prominently in the foreground):

And here (big reveal) is our house with the new roof and gutters (gutters were just replaced on Wednesday):

See the big difference?  Yeah, not so much.  But the roof is a little more interesting-looking with a speckly texture that seems to shift when you look at it from different directions.  (That's the reflective property in play.)  And it's a good thing that you can't tell the difference with the gutters: They had to match the paint with our siding and pillars, like the old ones.

(You can also see how much deader our yard got, fifteen days farther into a stretch of forty consecutive days over 100 degrees and no rain since I don't remember when.)