I think you missed any chance for a Tudor Revival style house when you lowered the roof pitch of the front facing gable below 12 in 12. I would skip the half-timber decoration and find a style more compatible with the massing of the house.

I totally agree there is nothing tudor about this now.

I don’t see Tudor in either th front porch or windows. What other styles do you like?

The shape of the roof on the overhang (plus the copper?), the size of the windows, and the more contemporary pitch of the main roof say recent, not at all Tudor. I would skip the Tudor detailing. Maybe just use the dark horizontals?

Take some time to figure this out... It's not a rush decision.

I prefer the version with the details under the roof only, filling the whole triangle area, like the inspiration photo you show but the entire area without windows. Like your third "compromise" version in the drawings.

I personally have never liked the extra dark lines on the side of the house in a more traditional "Tudor". But the details under the overhand are pretty to me. You could use the larger triangle area to add the detail. (Sorry for my highly un technical terms of "lines" lol.

Who cares if it is not official "Tudor" style. It will be pretty when done and I love your copper details.

Here is a link with detail at the top only https://www.billgriffinrealestate.com/featured-listings/ntreis/mls-13927488-3650_university_boulevard_university_park_tx_75205/

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQKoBk_ogjrG1I6MxmkCLEMK5CDXgEQ9HBo3h8yJbqgUdU1uc3f

https://cdn.homedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Tudor-revival-bright-red-door.jpg

https://magnolia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/43A7374_Final-e1513606747261.jpg

https://historicbuildingsct.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Howland.jpg

Windows are craftsman... go for modern craftsman not Tudor.

Thank you everyone! Going simpler was my gut reaction, I just started to doubt myself because we do love the Tudor style. Does the transition between the 1st (brick) and 2nd (stucco) stories needs the horizontal band separation? Or will it look ok with two materials in the same color?

^^^Except there is nothing craftsman about the house. The windows are factory ganged together which is not craftsman and nothing else is craftsman

Have you considered adding a full porch across the front?

W can't add a porch due to set backs, which is unfortunate since I love a big front porch!

I think the transition from brick to stucco will be important.

It looks like the 2nd floor walls are set back from the walls below like this.

If so, you will want some sort of cap.

Maybe this would be better?

I think the copper roof complicates this a bit.

I fear your horse has escaped from the barn and is heading south on a wrong path.

To take what you have at this point and make it look like a Tudor anything (without having a "Mc" in front of it) will take a talented architect with experience in the Tudor style, an enlarged budget, and possible changes to work already performed. The transition between brick and stucco is going to be very important along with tying the two materials (textures) together. It can be done, it just may be a little painful. If it is not done properly, it will look just like another tract house.

Painting brick in my opinion is almost never a good idea.

Example here:

I think we can assume the example posted directly above is not built in the United States and not within the past ten years. Look closely, the devil is in the details. Your project without such minute details will not have the same type of results.

On your upper front gable - I would create a Modern tudor framework that is the same shape as your window gridwork. Nothiong rounded or curved, sticking with the straight lines and using tones of wood and base material that are only a shade or two different from each other will add a more "modern tudor" feel IMO.

Since I don't see anything Tudor about the house, I'd skip the whole idea and try to develop a plan for the house you actually have.

What did the original house look like?

Decorate for the house you actually have, not the fantasy house that you don’t have.

Notice I didn’t say “Design”. Design for this was a year ago, and didn’t involve anything Tudor. Design is Form. The bones. Your Form is set, and the basic Form is not Tudor.

It does have a lot of nice Modern simplicity going for it. Simplicity that would be best served by a single cladding material, however that might be achieved. And a redo of the copper roof to achieve a more modern and simple direction. It’s ornateness is a jarring element against the rather more severeness of the body. Severity in this case is a good style direction.

Bringing on late in the game decoration that isn’t at all part of the design form will look even more unnatural and overblown. Like Mario Buatta set loose in Phillip Johnson’s Glass House.

Dont do this....

To This..

I have to agree with Live this is neither craftsman or tudor so now make the best of what you have which IMO needs one siding material everywhere and start thinking modern 2 storey farmhouse sort of .