Thanks for everyone's opinion! I originally was thinking black, because its classic and I love it. However, my house is not classic. No matter how much I want it to be - it just isn't. Anyway... I literally took the fan deck out this morning and tried to find the shade closest to the existing shade on the doors and trim. Closest shade to the existing color on the BM fan deck is Waynesboro Taupe. It has more grey in it than I thought! What if I stay on that paint chip, and do the soft grey black color at the bottom, Dragon's Breath?? Horrible name, I know. I looked for Murkey Turkey and couldn't find it. LOL I could do browns too, the roof has plenty of brown in it, which is my main hesitation for doing the black. I was originally thinking this would be easy. I'd just do the black, since its in the brick. Now I'm concerned it would be competing against the overwhelming browns in the shingles. Maybe a grey-brown? BM Dash of Pepper?

Hi CEFreeman, I don't think we've met, I am Nancy, may I call you Christine? I redid my kitchen three summers ago with a set of Quakermaid cabs from 1987. Mine were grooved oak in a soft white stain. The finish had just plain worn off in places, but my cabs have a modern no-hardware look with router-ed out places for fingers to get behind each door to pull it open. They have rounded edges, too. Stain does NOT want to stick there, which is what made re-staining the 30 doors and 20 drawer fronts so infuriating, as if the grooves every half inch were not enough! But in the end, I have a new looking kitchen that functions as if new. We did not replace a single drawer glide or hinge! Quakermaid are, indeed, a-maid-zing cabinets! I hope you enjoy yours as much as we are enjoying ours. Maybe the two of us should do a commercial for Quakermaid? Thank you so much for the report on the Citrustrip. We redid the living room at the front of the house and made it into a music room/library. We added french doors to it and the ones I bought off Craigslist have this murky ugly stain on them. I tried scrubbing them with mineral spirits (or with what passes for mineral spirits these days) and steel wool and it took off the murkiness - but not uniformly. And because I have a very limited ability to scrub with my ligament disorder, there is no way I will ever in my lifetime do all four sides. So one side of one door is halfway stripped. Maybe with your Citrustrip I can get that job done this summer! That would be after I sand and stain and poly the one door from the kitchen cabs that went missing three years ago and turned up in my carpenter's shop six month's later. Oh - and the trim for the island and the knee hole for the desk area. And the paint touch ups so the kitchen will finally be done and I can do "Completed" pix. Then I can start on the two candidates I have for vanities for the bathroom. One is an antique "hotel dresser", other is a used Kraftmade vanity. DH says I need to chose one of these two, or we'll have to have a bonfire. Such a literary guy! Here is a link that might be useful: Quakermaid kitchen remodel with used cabs

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Thanks for info. Keep the windows. The diamond panes were an expensive luxury when the house was built and they still look great. Paint the door white or a terracotta to match one of the brighter bricks. Test colors on foamcore, not the door. Remove the shutters and store them for the next owner. However, if the bricks have discolored behind the shutters and you can't clean them up. put the shutters back up and paint them denim blue or sage green. Paint the door to match. The roof needs cleaning. It is the single most noticeable thing about the house itself. Pressure wash the sidewalk. There is nothing you can do to keep a golf course sod lawn looking perfect if you have renters. Use some fertilizer and compost on the existing grass, then hire a gardener to care for it every week or two. Pretty good, not golf course pretty, is good enough. When you are ready to put it on the market, buy a new door mat and some gallon pots of bright blooming annuals to plant out front. Change the light fixtures to something black and transitional, not carriage lamps like you have now.