Hi Jane, Well, you are on the West Coast and I am over on the East Coast. Although, looking at the map of Florida, we are directly across from each other. I am in Port St Lucie on the Treasure Coast. Btw, I neglected to tell you that I like your house. And, OH MY! what I wouldn't give for those swanky double doors! The "older" houses in my area are older than yours. Many of the houses are 70's. Mine is 1973.. but loads of them have a 60's look. Mine isn't one of the more 'cool' looking houses, although it does have some elements of the 60's style..I will add more. Not talking about going totally Atomic, I just like some of the architectural features that I see here. It's so friggin hot here that I don't even want to go for the morning walk anymore. That's a shame, cuz like I said, I so enjoy looking at the house styles. I would love to hop in the car with my camera and just explore.. but even that isn't easy. Just like most of Florida, lots of areas here don't have sidewalks. We are lucky, my neighborhood does....at least, parts of it. I'm told if you are within a certain distance of a school there must be sidewalks. I don't like the fact that some areas don't have them. Plus, just another weird Florida thing, if you are lucky enough to have sidewalks they will run right through your front lot! I scrolled back up and see that your neighborhood is without sidewalks. It isn't safe...plus, even worse, at night it is so dark here. Again, seems to be another Florida thing...I can take a road, a fairly busy road, the same road that my house is on the corner of, and get up a few miles and no sidewalks...at night you cannot see a thing. I was riding in my car and did not see people walking their dogs, literally right at the edge of the road.. and you could not see them until you were right on top of them. Scary. I don't know why they don't light the streets better. I quickly learned that you must get out to the MAIN roads and streets to travel at night. Anyway, I will take my car soon to look for your house style in a neighborhood or two. If I do find it or something very similar, I will take a pic and send it to you. Good luck in your new house and new neighborhood.....it looks really nice! Sea

I swear by pre-finished Cobblestone. It's the third time I am using it on a renovation. When I started in 1990, it was only available on the West coast and I had it shipped to the NY area. It goes beautifully with beige or greige and with white trim. Limestone or sandstone Belgian block (Unilock) and facing if you want a stone look on your foundation and/or columns. Neighbors used a similar painted color and painted twice over the 13 years that my pre-finish was installed. I NEVER painted, except for the Azek trim. Word to the wise...the Azek gives you touch up paint to cover the nails...it turns dark grey and looks like speckles so you have to repaint that in a couple of years. Incidentally the JamesHardie folks honor their warranty. It is possible to have some damage to any painted product with heavy rainfall such as we have been having on the east coast, and when that happened on one side of my home that bore the brunt (two boards) they replaced the entire side...labor and material.

We are in the PNW, in a wooded area. Here’s our garden shed (which matches our house) with Hardie board in Iron Grey on the body, Monterrey Taupe trim around the windows and doors and cedar shingles stained in Sico Natural. I hope this helps you to picture your house.

It would be too much white for my tastes. I would want some definition between the roof and the walls. I think you can achieve a clean, classic look without going white on white.