txgypsygal - I don't have a pic and not sure if I could even take one that you can see at all as I'd need a telescoping lense probably to capture it close. If you drive on 71 the house is located on the south side and if heading east it is between Plum and La Grange. I can give it a try heading home tomorrow, but not sure how well it could be seen. It used to stick out as a sore thumb due to how modern it looked and surrounded by fields with the more spanish mission style it works better imo. I think with this one lindy has a good start on it. Maybe do the chimney in rock and doing the double doors with beams in front would make a difference. The short narrow windows on the right is what made me think spanish mission along with the beams you already have. Maybe do a thick beam just at the peak.

I thought my house was funky, but yours is even quirkier. I would not fight the funk- I would go with it. Instead of trying to make it look traditional, which won't work with that roofline, how about going modern/Frank Gehryesque? (Not that I know what that is.) Here are some outside of the box ideas: 1. Change the front siding to match the sides and attic (?) area. 2. Change the garage door- maybe to a modern barn door look with two doors. 3. Replace the attic windows with a series of identical clerestory windows from side to side, about eight of them. Big wide trim around them. 4. On the second floor, continue the window pattern that's over the garage all the way over (probably mean adding three or four more). Wide trim around all. 5. Metal or galvanized tin roof. 6. New door: single light french. 7. Depends on what rooms are on the first floor, but I'd put another two single light french doors, sliders, to the right of the front door. 8. Pergola from end to end of the house to define the first floor, with a solid (galvanized tin?)roof over the entry door or maybe all the way across. With a patio outside in front of the single-light slider. 9. Paint: charcoal gray with black trim, or dark purply-brown with plum trim. Or warm tan with white trim. Or...? Landscaping: tall spiky things. Good luck. I have had a heck of a time working around the bizarre add-ons on my house. Each part of the house still has different siding. So I am in the same boat- except that I have only one story to contend with, which makes it a little less daunting. In any case, it will not be cheap.

I think the squares are fine, as you have lots of them on the facade, from the panes of glass on the door to the shape of the windows, to the angular lines of the brick. Finish is very nice! I an not a fan of lever handles for exterior doors, but that is just me. I think they only belong on interior doors like closets and perhaps french interior doors.

Hey Squirrel! Oops, what I actually meant was the garage door that you posted on Oct 4th at 19:48, just white. (see above post). The one w/windows. Just switch the garage door on those bottom 2 you just posted to the other (and in white) and that will be the 2 I'm hoping for :) Boy, you are fast!