Ok - I'm back, and hoping to pick your brains once again... While at a thrift store this week I stumbled across a sofa for $75 and am seriously thinking of getting it for our new home. I have it on hold now, but am wanting some opinions as to whether you think it is a style that would look well in our new living room (and what is this style of sofa actually called, BTW?), and if so, what type of chairs, rug and draperies would best go with it? My brother is inheriting almost all of my Mom's living room furniture, so, other than a vintage Indian brass coffee table of hers, I will pretty much have a blank palette to start with in that area. The sofa is in almost pristine condition - just a little piping trim on the lower part coming loose, which I'm sure can be re-glued, and a very, very slight fading on the upper rear part of the back cushions, where the sun reached. I am assuming the good condition of the sofa is due to the fact that it apparently had a slipcover on it at some point - which also is in awesome condition and was included in the price of the sofa. The sofa is a greenish-yellow pattern. Here are a couple of pics of the sofa (please excuse the photo quality and that lump of fabric piled on the sofa, which actually is the extra slipcover.) And although this isn't the actual coffee table I might pair with it, it is practically identical: This post was edited by dianelu on Sat, Jun 29, 13 at 23:33

Those white painted rocks in the pics above make the house look like its made of marshmallow fluff! Not a good look. OP, Im willing to bet that those rocks are on the front only, am I right? Usually I argue in favor of saving original house parts but i have to say, the 50s thing for attaching fake rocks or brick veneer to the front only (like we cant see the sides??) is really annoying. Take it off! (Be sure to post after pics). Glad the tree is staying. Its not that close, and looks to be in good shape - a good tree adds value to a house. When the time comes redoing your front beds and adding a snazzy new door will add much more appeal.

Interesting home. Mostly like it except for those two too small upstairs windows in the middle section. Changing the center section would have the most visual impact. What changes would work would depend upon what rooms are behind there. Bedrooms? Creating a window wall upstairs -- almost the entire wall such as with fixed windows (think lake cabin) or, better yet, a balcony (or just the rail of a faux balcony) and patio doors would be worth considering. If you will be doing your own landscaping, when you remove the shrubs, consider replanting them along the back property boundary for a natural fence. If you don't want to keep them, you might be able to give all the healthy ones to a local landscaping company in exchange for their removing them -- but if you give them away, do expect holes to be left in their place as a root ball is removed..

Remove the shutters. I am not a fan of painting brick, especially brick like yours which is attractive. I would focus on the landscaping. Get rid of the pompom bushes. Extend the plantings from the side of the garage to line part of the drive, but add more variety. Plant an ornamental tree out in the yard to frame the entry. Plant a hardwood on the right side of the property. Some plants I would look into are oak leaf and pee gee hydrangea, mountain laurel, red twig dogwood. I like ornamental trees like Eastern Redbud, crabapple, snowbell, Crepe Myrtle.