Question one: I would not paint the garage door the siding color. It would keep it the same color. Question two: IDK. Color needs to complement and also must be done in the right percentages. I have seen homes like yours in Aberdeen, NJ with the same brick color and used white as the window trim and it worked Question three: What ever color you use on the sidelites should also be the posts. Question Four: A retractable screen will look fine as long as it is installed cleanly. Question five storm door trim should match the sidelites. THere are internet websites you can use to choose colors. You choose the style of home and add colors to the trim, garage and siding to see if the colors work. The issue is what looks good on the computer is not the same on the home. Every single paint color is made with different percentages of color thus when you paint different colors emerge depending on what color is nearby. Hawthorne yellow is a green yellow on my exterior home whereas in an interior room it has a butter yellow. I painted a home recently a cream wheat color but it is a light yellow on the clapboards. FInd an artist. Find an art student and ask them their opinion. They tend to understand color and percentage of color on any project.

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Really nice house. You could remove (but not discard) the existing mantel and live a while without, taking the time to consider all your fireplace options, including a more bulky but less wide mantel that is a part of a fireplace surround. (The current mantel could be reused as support for shelving or a new mantel.) Would not paint or widen the existing built ins Would not paint the wood around the cased door opening to the entry unless you do decide to put white (or wall colored) built ins on that wall incorporating the tv behind where the floor lamp now stands (third pic). If you do keep the built ins beside the fireplace their current wood look, then definitely leave the baseboard the treated wood to match the built ins. If you paint the current built ins white, then paint the window trim white, too; however, otherwise, if the current built ins are going to stay wood as is, you could decide to paint the window trim white only if you're not going to add drapes that would cover most of the window frame anyway. Would definitely paint the trim at the top of the wall the wall color since ceiling white could visually shrink the height of the room. As you consider wall colors, in addition to considering blue or gray, you might consider a wall color that is a tan (but without pink or yellow hue) such as the lightest color in the stone in the fireplace -- and keep the ceiling white. If you paint the new built-ins surrounding the tv either white or a light wall color, you should seriously consider updating the ceiling fan with one that is silver metal and tinted semi-clear plastic/vinyl blades. As to the front porch, does any part of the floor of the existing stoop extend beyond the front wall of the house or do the steps start as you walk out the door (as the sloped rails suggest)? Something you might consider is building a treated lumber deck over the steps from the front wall of the house to the sidewalk from a point midway between the door to the right front corner of the house, with wooden steps leading from the side of that deck to the sidewalk and having it built with posts extending above the deck for the railing and to build to in order to add a porch roof later.

Thank you so much for the replies! @ Yayagirl: that is such a cute little cabin and a great color scheme for it! Love it! Wouldn’t work for this particular cabin though. :) @ Groveraxle: thanks so much for the pictures of cabins you found. Those are more helpful - I really like the burnt orange/rust on the front door in some of those pictures; I think that looks really great. Regrettably I can’t use that though as the door color on our cabin since our log stain already has so much orange in it (want something more striking/not the same). Thanks too for your time & help in painting on the rust and the green - can’t say I’m particularly fond of either of those looks though. :-) @ All: 3 questions: a) I’m thinking for the front door going either charcoal, or this one brown shade I found that has just a little bit of an olive undertone... Trying to figure out what color would best make the front door “striking” against the orange undertone of the logs....Ideas?? and b) A friend of mine said he doesn’t like the way cabins look when they have too many colors going on, he said best to limit it to only a few colors. But he actually said three colors max including the white grid color of the window and the roof color. Which... to me seems pretty much un-doable, LOL, considering if you’re including those colors (white window grids and roof color) I’m already at 4 colors... then you add on the door color and the porch color, and also if you do the posts a different color from the rest of the porch, then you’re already at 6-7 colors. But honestly I don’t know how right he is about that... Do you think it’s more about sticking to a set number limit of colors, or do you think there’s some freedom in adding in a couple more colors (like for the porch/posts/door) as long as everything coordinates/looks good together? which leads to my last question: c) I’m thinking of testing out some colored wood stains for the porch and posts to lend color(s) yet still preserve more of that natural wood look (versus painting everything). Anybody have any experience/success with using those? Thanks again! :-D