rustic relating to the countryside; rural. made in a plain and simple fashion. If you don't like cedar shingles that turn gray with age then you shouldn't list "rustic" a goal. Painted clapboards and thin stone skirts aren't rustic. Nothing could look more rustic than cedar shakes that are hand split and have a very thick bottom edge and a stone foundation should stop at the bottom of the floor framing like a foundation normally does. What you have drawn looks decidedly suburban and developer-ish. The best finish for shakes is to have them factory dipped in a stain of any color you like but I wouldn't choose one as dark as the windows nor mix them with other claddings.

Where do the doors go - into which rooms? Was perhaps the side facing the driveway meant to be the "front," entering into your front room/living room? Sometimes they placed houses in a way that might have made sense at the time, but don't anymore - or rural areas the house sometimes faces driveway instead since no one would be approaching from the front. I would not be spending money on adding on dormers and other stuff not original to the era of the house. Sorry, like it or not, its not a colonial or cape house.... but it does in fact have a charm or character of its own. Sometimes with an old house, less is more. Be careful you don't ADD to the visual clutter already there, and instead, you want to strip OFF the extraneous gack that is creating visual clutter - like the 2 extra porches on the driveway side! LOL - its like you have the orginal sunporch, then another porch was added on to that, then the third porch (with stairs) onto that! Do any pics exist of your house in the past? I wonder if there wasn't a porch on the side facing the street, with the roof attaching to the wall in that blank space above the door/windows and below the eaves. Rather than dormers, spend your money an open porch - need not span the whole length of the house, in fact it might look best just putting it on the right side over door + 2 windows to the right. Duplicate exactly the pitch and style of the other porch roof. I would make it an open porch, then your landscaping- flowering shrubs and ornamentsals in front of porch with inviting walkway from the street.

I would suggest you make the stucco the same color as the brick and add matching white siding on the gable above the stucco. I also would suggest relocating the small, cone-shaped shrubs and adding two or three shrubs with an arching shape to flank the large windows. i also would suggest having black shutters on all the windows, but I believe the shutters need to be wider than those on the front windows. I also would add white-painted flower boxes filled with red-blooming plants under the windows.

I would keep it all dark and moody. Didn't know Hardie made a stucco looking siding. You should check that out. I'm not a fan of the plops of stone in the stucco, and don't like the siding you have already either. I'd want to go for a more authentic reno and maybe the Hardie product would do it. Here's one that reminds me of a mystery novel with its brooding appearance. That's what I'd go for myself.