Sooz, The best thing you can do is look at your modular home as anyone would any house. Do what you would if it were stick built. Sometimes you may find you have a few issues that you have to work around or find another solution to make your project work but most times you should be fine. I think the porch issue really depends on the codes and such where you live. Most places have rules about this sort of thing. We have a single wide mobile home and our porches aren't connected to the trailer but the rooves are. I guess they could have been connected somehow but I guess this was just how my Dad thought it would be easiest at the time. You should be able to find what you need at Lowe's or Home Depot or the local hardware. We buy everything we need at Lowe's, however there are times that it's required more work once we get home...like when we replaced our exterior doors and the traditional ones wouldn't really work because of the porch rooves so DH had to cut the doors down to make them fit (he works at a door company though so it was simple for him! LOL). It was cheaper than a special order! With new windows, we sometimes have to cut the hole bigger or put extra framing in to make them work. The plumbing we've had to work on switching over because it's the stuff they used years ago that there were issues with and it's prone to leaks later on. Bottom line is we've learned every project may end up with extra work because everything isn't square or done in the average sizes that are out there but it will work somehow! Hanging things...anything you want to hang, can be hung! Most of our items are hung up by nails. In fact we have this picture in the living room that's 25 1/2"x 31 1/2" and it's just hung on one nail. It's been moved around the room several times in the last 4 years and it has yet to fall. The really heavy things, DH uses anchors. They're pretty inexpensive at the hardware and it's really just a plastic piece that you put in a hole that you drill in the wall. The tips open up and hold the anchor in place and then the screw that holds the item goes in the anchor. (Not the best description but when you go look for items for hollow walls or ask!) I have some pretty heavy things hung up and again, they haven't fell. Hope that helps! Leslie

The days of seeing gains like those in the above posts where an $80,000 purchase sells for many times that years later are over for at least 10 years. Don't expect any major real estate boom any time soon; real estate is going to return to what it's supposed to be for, a place to live and call home, rather then a slot machine that pays out. With that said, I got a super deal on a manufactured home built in 2003 with new 2 car detached garage on a .65 acre lot for under $40k. The modular homes in a new subdivision being built start around $100k and that's with no garage included and they are still selling! They don't look that much different, they have the same or less square footage, yet they are selling for more then double the price. I guess it depends on what you need. Do you need a basement? The manufactured homes around here will qualify for a traditional mortgage as long as they are anchored on a frost free foundation. Surrender the title and they become real property, treated as such. Why pay more for less in an environment where real estate is going to go down adjusted for inflation going forward? If you can find a good deal, go for it. A house is a place to live, a place to call home, that's the important thing.. not bling bling, unless that's your style.

Question one: I would not paint the garage door the siding color. It would keep it the same color. Question two: IDK. Color needs to complement and also must be done in the right percentages. I have seen homes like yours in Aberdeen, NJ with the same brick color and used white as the window trim and it worked Question three: What ever color you use on the sidelites should also be the posts. Question Four: A retractable screen will look fine as long as it is installed cleanly. Question five storm door trim should match the sidelites. THere are internet websites you can use to choose colors. You choose the style of home and add colors to the trim, garage and siding to see if the colors work. The issue is what looks good on the computer is not the same on the home. Every single paint color is made with different percentages of color thus when you paint different colors emerge depending on what color is nearby. Hawthorne yellow is a green yellow on my exterior home whereas in an interior room it has a butter yellow. I painted a home recently a cream wheat color but it is a light yellow on the clapboards. FInd an artist. Find an art student and ask them their opinion. They tend to understand color and percentage of color on any project.

I suggest posting on the Home Decor forum but in the meantime check out the pics in the link below for more visuals. I see nothing wrong with the white garage door and other white trim and don't think I'd do 2 colors on the sidelights. On my monitor the house looks gray......is it gray or tan? Since you have a covered porch, do you need a storm door? Here is a link that might be useful: grarage/trim colors