Thanks everyone for your great comments! Brooke, glad to hear you and your babies are doing well. At the moment, my dining room is a blank slate. The look I'm shooting for isn't formal, rather a sophisticated cottage style? Floors: Dark brown stained hardwood Windows/doors: 1 small window, 10-foot long French sliding doors to the deck, 9 foot archway between kitchen and DR. Lots of sunlight. Trim: Black! Well, at least on the French doors. I've been dying to do black trim in one room! Walls: I'm thinking something neutral like the tan in the striped ottoman above. That picture has been my overall design inspiration. Window treatment: Undecided, need something for just that small window. Furniture: For the moment, I'll be using the Ethan Allen pedestal table that used to be in the eat-in area of our kitchen. I love it, but it only has one leaf, and I'm hoping to find a big round table that will seat 8. I'll keep the 4 E.A. chairs and re-upholster them with a blue patterned fabric or slip-cover them. I like comfy chairs that encourage people to linger at the table. I also like when all the chairs don't match. If I end up having a square table instead, I might even do an upholstered bench on one side. Thanks so much for helping me! BTW, the toekick the KD has been calling "flush" does look a lot like sandy's. Or maybe I'm confused on the terminology. Erika

I agree with the finish but wouldn't get knobs. I have knobs on one of my vanity's and it drives me crazy. The cord on the hairdryer gets caught on it constantly. It also is the perfect height to get stuck on belt loops. Sounds dumb bit it happens more than you'd think! I have bin or cup pulls on my drawers in the kitchen & I like them. I'd do a smooth pull in the bathroom. Not sure if a bin pull would look right in a bathroom.

You might check with your local ben moore store. Some of them have color consultants there for free and you can talk to them about what might work best for you. Encycolorpedia will tell you what is in the color from a visual point of view using various ways of defining colors, it can show you shades and such of various colors and it will tell you which manufacturers are closest to a particular color, but it does so from a lit computer screen which is very different from reflected light which is what we see off a painted wall. So if you are comparing colors that are very close, it may help you decide which is more green or what the deeper shades are, but it won't tell you what would make your walls look less green. You can also play with a color calculator to come up with a shade you think you might like, and it will generate a hex code for you which you can then plug into encycolorpedia to find which brands are closest. If money is an issue, then do look at Pittsburgh paints. I have found their quality to be as good as BM but at lower prices. I've also found colors there that BM just doesn't have.

Really attractive home. Liking the front porch as is. Would NOT paint or whitewash the brick; however, if you do you do want a more solid color, consider staining it, keeping the grout/brick look. Unless the garage door needs to be repainted, and if you like the garage door color as is, then you might consider staining the brick the same light gray color as the garage door, keeping the grout / brick look in place. Alternately, stain the brick a color you want to act as a frame to your front door. https://www.google.com/search?q=brick+stain&client=firefox-b-1-d&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiggr2-4PfpAhXamXIEHWDxBtcQ_AUIoAIoAQ&biw=1366&bih=654 You could literally then paint all the painted surfaces, except the door, the same color -- whichever one appeals to you -- add white board trim around the white window frames and have a good look for your home and make choosing your roofing easier. A medium/dark mixed shades of gray roof would work with most exterior siding colors -- white, grays, blues -- and the mix of roof colors will have a more clean look than a solid color with splotches of bird poo on it. Fascia and gutter could be gray or black or white, with downspouts painted to visually disappear against your choice of siding color. A medium/dark shingles mix of shades of brown and tan would also look good, with either white or black fascia and gutter, again painting the downspouts, of course. This would work with brown or tan or green siding. Would not put a contrasting trim color around the garage door -- would keep the color around the door itself all one (siding) color. You should decide on all colors as a combination: roofing, fascia/gutter, brick (stain), siding/downspouts, window trim, -- you want them to work together. Too many different colors could have a cluttered vibe. Last time I looked the gutter choices in stock at the local big box building stores were either white or brown but there are others available. https://www.milehighgutter.com/gutter-color-options/ Since the siding color will be dominant, my suggestion would be to pick out your favorite siding colors -- just a few -- and consider what other colors you'd want with each of those, then decide from those few groups. I also suggest you drive through some neighborhoods in your area and consider the color combinations others have used, paying attention to the difference in how the colors give off the vibe you want - do you smile or have a negative response or are you indifferent to those combinations: what reaction do you want as you approach your own home. Exterior natural wood finish boards can be a great look and worth considering in a protected place but they don't really weather well, including/especially where they're getting direct sun, so, unless you're considering covering the brick and using that natural wood board look for the entire indented / weather protected front porch niche and that space doesn't get any direct sun, there is no obvious place to add those. Keeping/staining the brick either to match the garage door or to create a desired frame color for your front entry door likely would be a better option.