Like the photo shop of the band in same color. I don't think you need to do the rest of the bands on the house. They look just fine to me.

I'm on a different feel with the house. The windows on the left are much stronger looking. Think the upper windows on the right need to be beefed up, added trim, rather than shutters. The same as the left ones. I do like the idea of the strip being painted same as house.

Am with you on your trees. Please don't let them go away. I have a hard time with trees being removed.

Also 9 degrees here and 6" of snow right after a day of 77 degrees. Waiting for planting is taking too much patience. Spring will give you more considerations of how the house looks. The back is beautiful and needs nothing more.

The last pic of yellow garage really does look good. But I think it is fine white too. And eggplant for the front door would also be my pick.

I just did a google image search on tri levels. Google sure is fast, every pic on this post is shown. How the heck do they do that?