"McClellan" should tip you off that even Betz doesn't think this house design is very French and the Petite French Cottage is more a combination of Cotswold Cottage, Late Tudor, Elizabethan/Jacobean and Early-Renaissance English manor and cottage architecture covering several centuries. Use those terms if you want to explore this architectural style. Unfortunately, the people who sell packaged home plans on the internet have no clue about architectural design so they refer to anything vaguely European as "French" although you are unlikely to find anything similar in France. If you didn't major in art and/or architectural history there's little help for you out there. Here is a link that might be useful: Petite French Cottage

*snort* I like some of the American imitations a great deal. My friend in college rented a room in a "Cotswold cottage" that I might have committed murder for, if it weren't for the kitchen and staircase. Post-war English knock off--with the entire inside full of gorgeous woodwork and arches, nooks and just an amazing rhythm to the rooms. You sat down in the living room and felt your body relax. It was amazing. This does not translate well to larger houses--really, those that look larger. It begins to look like a poorly conceived amalgam of mis-sized turrets and random roof lines. The cottage style MUST stay looking like a cottage or risk looking like a Disney attraction and not a home. The house can actually be huge, but it must seem small and must appear to be a series of additions rather than a huge cancerous block. :-( I also looooove the French Provincial house in historic Annapolis. It is so utterly simple and clean. I'm okay with a fair number of more recent examples--it's just when they confuse "French Provincial" and "Queen Anne" and basically have a badly made modern Queen Anne with stucco and "French" details that it really gets on my nerves. Okay. That's most of the time. But still....

While I like verdigris, I think black would be a really classic look that would go well with the house style you describe, the limestone and the patio color. I can't really see the verdigris with the plum pavers, and I also think you will have more choices in black. We bought our Woodard furniture about 8-9 years ago and absolutely love it. It is Ramsgate in Hammered Pewter, which is a dark gray.

Like I said it is very difficult to compare elevations when you don't have a front facing photo. Here is what I notice between the two photos. Your home is a work in progress so you don't have all the trim, the portico isn't built up yet (in the green box). So the front of your house isn't looking correct yet. The other BIG thing I noticed is your windows either aren't cut out all the way yet or they are not the correct size. Even with the missing Frieze board that I highlighted in a red box It appears that the windows are too short. Even wide window trim would not make up the difference. You have a very tall house. So you are not going to see the roof unless you are far away. The only other suggestion I have is that you can gauge your chimney height and roof ridge to make sure the pitch is proper if you don't want to measure the inside attic pitch yourself. But I can't even tell from your photo because as you go up the elevation doesn't distort but the photo does. See my yellow lines do not line up.... Hope this is helpful and makes sense!