Your home is going to be beautiful, threeapples. Your determination to get all the details right will pay big dividends. You are getting such wonderful advice here from lots of experts. I hesitate to chime in, but don't want you to make the same mistake I made. Our home was a Georgian similar to yours. Our brick, a Boral wood mold in 'Fairfield', was almost identical to the brick you selected. Windows, trim, columns, etc were white. Everyone involved in the planning assumed white gutters and downspouts were the best choice. They were wrong. Those white downspouts were the only thing I did not LOVE about our house! IMO, downspouts should do their job, blend in and disappear. The white was so very obvious against the brick. The rear elevation was all brick with brick columns. The only white was trim, French doors, and balcony posts. We used copper downspouts there. Over a few months the copper developed a nice brownish patina and disappeared into the brick. IMO, any option is better than white.

kristinamaria and teacats, you are on the same wavelength. I think I will do that... find the fabric first. And teacats, I absolutely LOVE THAT FABRIC. Seriously, I LOVE it!! I am going to go back to that site in a minute and see about a sample. Thanks for linking that. I luv my GW friends. :o) You all are so helpful. Each person has something to share that I had not thought of/had not realized. Thanks for sharing all of your advice. I'm going to find the fabric and see if I can get my green in the fabric, and then I think I'll go with whatever blue the "experts" have put in the fabric. I'm just not the best with paint colors. Thanks! ;o) mrsrose, I am headed out the door in a few minutes, but will post a few kitchen shots on here later today for you to see. Thanks for the compliments from you and lindybarts too. ;o)

Well, we ordered our coach lights today. We will soon order some for the back of the house. Here is what we chose. I appreciate the assistance given. The one below is for the front of the house. It is in oil rubbed bronze -- much browner than in the picture. We ordered two larger ones to go beside the front door, and 3 medium ones (2 on either side of garage door, an one at the garage man door). We concluded that we need coach lights that did not extend too far (not deep ones), so we had to go a different direction. These lights have built in LED lights. The lights are made by Artcraft. Here is the ones we are ordering for the back of the house. There are 4 total along the back which is all one plane (not jogs out).

What gives off a decent amount of light is dependent on the wattage. And these days with the LED bulbs you can't go by that either. For sure, for sure, use a shade, or a glass covering below the bulbs to prevent glare. A drum fixture looks very nice, or something that looks like the Fortuny ceiling fixture, but instead of fabric uses glass under the bulb. By code, you should have wall outlets every three feet near the floor.. If you are going to bookshelves lining the walls of the room, please consider having lamps (picture lamps) affixed to the top of the bookshelves. You can have them permanently wired, or you can purchase them with long cords and just run the cords down the back of the bookshelves and plug them in behind the bookshelves in the outlets. I also highly, highly suggest that when you have outlets installed, you have "smart outlets" installed. I am no whiz at that, but talk to your electrician. You or your children should be able to plug in their USB's and whatever and you might as well get the room up to snuff in that department. I am embarrassed to admit that the average 14 year-old knows waaay more about this than I do. When my child was in 4 th grade she knew more about it than I did!! Take a minute and look online at the home library of the writer Shonda Rhimes. I have never seen a single TV show of hers, I just saw this in a magazine and liked the room and the light fixture. https://video.architecturaldigest.com/watch/inside-shonda-rhimes-1920s-style-home-study Here are some photos of libraries that some of the fixture ideas I mentioned All three show the picture lights affixed to the bookcases making it very easy to find the book you are looking for. The first and third photo show the suspended glass or stone (traditionally alabaster, I think) below the bulbs. The first photo shows an ottoman which is marvelous thing to have in a library. It might be something you want to consider having, a great ottoman in front of your sofa, and you can have a great big tray on which to put drinks, etc. If you don't want to do that. you can have recliner chairs, or chairs with smaller ottomans or poufs.