Well -- it honestly depends on whether or not you want the house to "stand out" from the garden or blend in .... you could consider a darker color -- like gray or even an olive green! Or a simple fresh white! My little house (with its horrible orange-toned brick) has olive-green-painted siding with my black front door (and black plant pots filled with herbs! LOL!) Just a thought! I do love the gray house pictured above! Any chance that you could post some photos? :) Jan at Rosemary Cottage

Ohhh...Flamingo and Alisande, I'm in big trouble! I have found the perfect color and texture match, in a red loveseat. It could completely disappear. LOL It's leather, but not the smooth, glossy leather. It's soft and "nubbly." Flamey, I originally bought the purple loveseat to go in the sage-green (Key Lime Pie) living room on base. The two colors are perfect together but it's the "wrong" purple to go with the "Lilac Vapor" sewing room. Even so, I had to use that particular shade of paint. So...the living room here is going to be KLP-sage too, and the purple loveseat will stay in its original spot. I'm going back to the furniture store today to see if I can borrow a cushion or something to play with the colors against these walls. I plan on using a large oriental-type carpet in here. Big enough to take care of noise, but I'll still have a lot of the floor showing. Harry has been floor-surfing ever since we removed the heavy paper. He runs down the hallway, braces himself, and s-l-i-d-e-s into each of the rooms. He's learned to keep his legs stiff and lean to "steer" his direction. He thinks it's great fun. We figure the soon he scratches the floors the better. Lydia, I'm considering a red-beige print, too. DH wants a mission-style dark wood and leather. That's nice, but it's not "me." I've not ruled that out either, since it is more his room than mine. And it means I'd get free reign in the livingroom!

don't know if it's supposed to work, but that house has so much "weight"-depth, dimension, mass, presence, something like that-that I think a front door that matches the other trim would be excellent. With the mass or whatever I'm trying to say of all that rich wood siding, you need something deep & powerful; different colors might look fussy & insignificant. It's a beautiful house!

Since you have different textures (brick, siding, stones) I would paint.