I am making a cross stitch for my niece and I want to change the color of the eyes on the pattern to hazel. What color floss should I use? I have dmc floss, but I should be able to figure out the conversion.

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A trick I used for brick/tile was overlaying with non sanded tile grout. Then painted it. I didn't want the brick to show at all. Am assuming here that your brick is thin. Even wall board paste would work, sealed and painted. The other is to just remove the brick, a big job, then recover with wall board. I just prefer no brick at all. As for the doors, painting is a huge task. You may want to reface if money/time is there. Or paint the bottom doors only and cut opening in the top ones for glass or another material. You could also insert panels within the trim. One of my favorite kitchens is from the set of Two and a Half Men, they painted the doors two different colors (insert/outside trim). Kitchen doors always take a lot of work, but many here have done some wonderful redos of existing cupboards with instructions on how they did so. I'm not great on colors, they are a personal touch. My kitchen is terracotta, off the grid of most. One of the kitchens here was with black cupboards on the bottom and top ones a contrast. Loved that kitchen.

Oh, wherever things can possibly be complicated or delayed, I'm sure to find them! I was looking for advice firstly with the right "look". Once I knew what I "should" be aiming for, I figured I could fudge or approximate it somehow, depending on what the contractor told me/was willing to do. If nothing else, I now know what I need to aim for. The black option that I posted above is pretty wide, so I thought that would help give the impression of being wider-mounted, and in fact it's from a line called "Old Sturbridge", which should read traditional/colonial enough for the house. I also thought I had a better chance of using the existing wire hole to satisfactory effect if I got a down-arm or armless lantern. But maybe it's too authentic for a revival house and only really works on 1700s saltbox? The paint is alligatored and we aren't replacing or sanding the siding, so I was going to go with a sort of dark color to try to camoflage the condition. But now I'm rethinking that, in light of Teacat's suggestion that I make the entire surround off-white. I wouldn't want a lot of contrast on the house, so if we do whitish trim we'll go for a lighter colored house. We did sand (with a palm sander!) a house once. But that one was already down to bare wood in some places. This house has been painted at least once since it started cracking; the alligatoring is now effectively preserved for the long run. We are older and less ambitious now.