Does it have a garage as well as a carport? A metal roof would be modern. If the brick is cracked, have a pro stonemason take a look at it. Have your inspection report ready for the stonemason to compare his findings with. The landscaping needs a professional plan. An arborist can walk the property with you for an hour to tell you about the trees' care and siting, including the best time of year to prune them. In the meantime, trim the shrubs to a foot or so below the height of the window sills and a foot away from the walls to let air circulate better.

Rug a bit complicated, I'd think dining set should be more the same [finishes of, etc..] e.g., maybe the table could stay dark but all else the linen/ beige upholstery. Or lighten everything and let a color from rug 'show out'... https://www.houzz.com/products/casa-faded-traditional-ivory-and-blue-rug-710x1010-prvw-vr~35555599

houssaon, would it work to have the window trim in the current shutter color? The reason I ask is because exterior colors (paint colors are from a stucco collection. picked because lower half of house is stucco) aren't really modern. Probably hard to tell online but the shutters are more of a sandstone, field is more of a cream & roof is shades of browns. Since I can't trim out the bottom windows I'm wondering if the dark trim on top windows might look odd.

cobalty, the features you describe as essential to you are ones that the vast, vast majority of consumers neither know anything about nor feel the same way about. I'm not an engineer or a tech person but I've spent my adult life in Silicon Valley and it's hard to out-geek me so long as a discussion doesn't get deep into the technicalities. Backhauls don't need to be wired. Latency simply means delay, not speed, as I'm sure you understand. For the vast, vast majority of internet users, the greatest factor impacting latency is the signal pathway to/from the internet after leaving their homes. And, for this same vast majority, their normal internet use is wholly unaffected by latency. As I'm sure you know, what ISPs and equipment companies describe as internet "speed" is really capacity - how much the truck can carry, not how fast the truck is travelling. Internet signals travel at the speed of light- congestion, distance, and equipment processing speeds, among other things, are what contribute to latency. What better way to limit a teenager's time wasted playing games than to have equipment that offers only limited or moderate response times because of latency. People I encounter who proselytize for Linux take a similar approach - look at all the things "my" approach offers and your's doesn't. Except, how many of those things does the buying public think to be essential or are able to deal with as the softrware and hardware require? Answer- few or none. Home IT equipment is a plug and play ecosystem. To the extent possible, products configure themselves with onboard setup software. They're shipped with programs consumers can use to receive setup steps and configuration items that can't be automated - to enter passwords, etc. Few ever access access the innards again. If you ask someone what the password is to access their router, the response will usually be incorrect, responding with what the Wifi password is. Often that even needs to be looked up or was written on the bottom of the router. And Wifi passwords? No, they don't know how to change them or set the channels used. It's why people buy iPhones instead of Android ones, Macs instead of PCs, iPads instead of competing ones. . They want to use the technology without having to setup, configure, troubleshoot, adapt or fiddle with it. I have no doubt the equipment you prefer does what you want it to and that's great for you. If the market found Ubiquiti's products as compelling as you do, they would be more than just the very small player in the marketplace for home equipment that they are. They're not more and I think enough said. I do agree with the suggestion to give thought to wiring for things like cameras. The rest of it is optional, the world runs on Wifi these days and the infrastructure equipment that serves it is more than up to the task.