Pictures would be helpful! And are you looking for exterior paint suggestions? Interior? For your bathroom, kitchen, bedroom?

Oh dear. Another "Can't find more of the vinyl floor to finish my house" thread. For this reason, I prefer the 'stone' or 'tile' look of vinyl in a kitchen. That way a wood-look product can be added to the living spaces at a later date and NOTHING will look amiss. But now the wood-look stuff is in the kitchen AND there is no match in the living area. If you want more vinyl, then you will have to work with another 'look'. Like stone or tile. But wait. That looks bass akwards! Stone in the living areas and wood in the kitchen? Sigh. Now the painful part of partial renovations comes into focus. If you want something other than carpet, you will have to stay away from 'wood look' if you want to have your home look nice. You have very, very few choices. If you want continuous flooring throughout the house: 1. Remove the kitchen floor and start again = refinish the entire house in a single floor finish If you want the CHEAPEST option: 2. Replace the carpet with more carpet If you want a NICE finish but do NOT want more wood look: 3. Cork floating flooring (natural cork will match both the oak trim AND the kitchen flooring) 4. Sheet linoleum in some colour you like (it will look like a children's daycare...) If you want SOMETHING other than carpet and don't care about the look of two woods: 5. More vinyl or laminate in a wood-look 6. Vinyl or laminate in a STONE OR TILE look (it looks REALLY WACKY...but totally doable) I'm sorry you had to find this out the hard way. You have essentially painted yourself into a design corner by using wood look vinyl in the kitchen. As for painting the oak finishes (that's a lot of stripping + painting) I would figure out the FLOORING decision WELL BEFORE you figure out the wood features.

I think your idea of white house with red garage sounds awesome! The farmhouse architecture of your home will suit these colours. I say go for it! Just be careful with the colour of red. Go for a barn red and do a bunch of sample colours on each side of the garage before you choose the final colour. Good luck! Your house/garage will look great!!

You've got some nice wood pieces. Did your father make most all of them? Regarding the paint color. I always feel paint color should be decided once everything is selected. I'm guessing that the Builder has a couple of paint selections that were chosen to go with the finishes that are being offered so if I were you at this point I would make notes as you are doing but wait to see what you select for the other finishes and then see if the Builder's paint colors will work for you. If none of them do, at that point you can determine if you are going to "up-grade" (he may not even offer the opportunity for you to stray from the color choices) or just paint the walls a non-descriptive color and have them painted later with your own painter. When is your meeting at the Design Center?