Do you have to have the stone? My opinion is that your house will look so much better with just siding. I'm sorry to say, that the photo you showed with stone just looks silly. It just screams ... I am thin veneer stone and was just thrown up on the house in weird locations that make no sense at all. Real stone would never have been used in this way. Sometimes, less is really more ...

With just siding on the exterior, using wood garage doors and a wood front door would then look simple and elegant on your house.

Stone is required in the subdivision.....

Your house is going to be beautiful! Congrats! Not sure I love almond. Too blendy. I think the blue is too dark. Wood might also be too dark. I think I would go with white :)

I know over in the kitchen forum they are always doing mock ups using photos to give ideas of what certain tile would look like. Can you down load software or an app that might help you see the colors first and how they might look?

Sorry to hear that. In that case, I think I would paint the garage doors the same color as your trim.

I didn't know that wood garage doors were coming back. They warp, peel and are heavy for the motor to lift when they absorb humidity. If it were me I would have a metal one, white, with the three windows as you stated. I would think they would last a lot longer, with fewer problems, but what do I know?

It seems like you would want blendy for garage doors. They aren't usually an architectural detail you want to feature. I think white would be way too stark against your stone and probably look as if they were primed, waiting to be painted. I think (to my eye) this looks better:

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I think blendy would be good if the main color of the house were tan (or similar to the stone). I am just worried about making that 2 car garage part all very light tannish when the house is actually blue. I feel it would intrude too much on the blue (which is the same reason I am having the gray painted to match the blue). Here is a photoshop mockup I did painting those parts blue and trying to add the stone and door.....this might help visualize better (note the garage door colors are obviously way too bright for the rest of the picture so the actual garage door color would not be as crisp in the light I took this original pic in). Thoughts?

Here are 2 pics with wood doors....one is walnut and one is cherry. My front door is actually called a walnut bistro. I believe it has a very small amount of red in it but not as much as a normal cherry or mahogany. As you can see in the pic of the front door....on a cloudy day the wood looks quite dark. Thus, again, the pics of the wood garage doors I photoshopped are much much brighter than they would be in this lighting normally (especially the cherry). I don't know...there seems to be something a bit more soothing about the pic with the darker wood. It at least is in the same tan/brown color tone as the stone.

The white just brings all the attention to the garage, overwhelming the house itself. I would either choose a tan to match the stone or paint it the blue.

My opinion is that garage doors should not call attentions to themselves, that said they should blend in with whatever surrounds them. Therefore whatever color makes them blend with the stone.

Your mock ups look good! I like the darker wood photo. The almond works but I just don't like it. I still like the white, but then again I like white :)

I like the darker wood, too. Could you do a mock up with the doors blue, just to see?

Do you have to take the stone all the way to the roof on the garage section? It might be good to have some of the blue on that part of the house to make the whole garage section not so different from the rest (only stone and garage door color, but no blue at all).

You didn't ask, but I also would paint the white trim detail under the lower window on the right blue. To me, it looks odd to have those painted white. Too fussy.

I like blue best. It fits in along with the siding. Unlike this plain flat mock-up garage door, you'll have garage door design bits to add interest -- light & shadow elements so it's not so stark. If you're using plain concrete for the driveway, the blue will work beautifully with that element too.

You could also do a blue and white garage door. The wing to the left, is that a garage door too? You said 3 car garage...

i like the dark wood...i don't think u will ever "hide" the doors and if u don't get the color to match perfectly, its going to "stick out" in a weird way. at least the wood gives u another "feature" to your house in a good way....wood and stone look good together, as is your case,

the blue would just be too much blue, white is white and that will really call attention to it and i agree with what was upthread, "like its primed, waiting to be painted"....

I would not choose the light trim color for your garage door(s). Your garage is forward of the house, which is how they are where I live. It's not a favorite look in GW, but it's what we have to deal with. Unless you want to make your garage a standout feature, I would make it blend/recede with your siding color. A stained door can look nice, IF you want it to stand out.

I usually wouldn't like a colored garage door, but awm's mock up really makes the whole house come together and makes a feature of the stone, instead of the garage door, which is the opposite of what I would have thought.

Thanks for the replies so far, they definitely help.

awm, correct, that is a one car garage door to the far left. I definitely think painting the doors all blue might be too much...but your second pic looks decent for sure.

oly, yes, at least at this point (since they are so far into the job), the stone has to go all the way up to the top....not sure if it ever was an option to change that. As for the trim detail on that window....actually in pics I saw of other homes that were this model....it was all white, including above the window (where it's blue now). I'm not sure if they have to add a trim piece there still....or whether the pic of the house I saw just had it different there. I would just be concerned about that window having no white framing around it (if I painted it blue) whereas all my other windows on all sides of the house are trimmed in white/linen. The better choice might be to paint the area above the window white.

I don't mind the garage doors standing out...but again, I want it to be for the right reasons....not because it's ugly. I think unless you have brown or tan on your house.....wood is always going to draw attention to the doors. I don't think that's bad....we see plenty of pics on Houzz of blue or gray houses with wood doors and they look great. The only wood doors I've seen that are ugly are non-carriage style ones with no windows. It just looks odd to have a big huge wood panel with nothing breaking it up....even if you have brown on your house.

I did attach 2 pics of other houses with similar colors that I took yesterday (so in the same light). I just think the white is throwing people off because it's appearing so much brighter (I used one of those garage door manufacturer programs where you can upload a pic of your house and put their door on it). These pics give better visuals of what the white would look like in real life.

For me the white or light door surrounded by the light stone that goes to the roof-line on your home makes that entire garage area advance and become the dominant feature of the elevation - I'd go with the blue door with windows trimmed in white or a wood door.

still liking the dark wood stain for the doors after seeing these new pics...

I vote for the Dark wood stain. I think it will look the classiest.

I don't think the white is so awful, especially if everyone else in the neighborhood has the same white doors. Landscaping will also make the white doors look less prominent. The brown faux wood also looks very good.

Yeah, I think I'm going with the dark wood if I can get something close to what my front door is. I originally thought my front door had a bit of cherry in it (which is why I posted the cherry pic above) and I wasn't real sure if that color wood would look good on the garage. However, after examining my front door again today....it definitely has no red in it. It's a dark brown pretty much like the pics of the dark wood above.

I like the dark wood too. I think it is a good choice. I like the stone and think the natural element of the wood with the stone go well together.