Right now there's not much color inside. Walls are a light greige, floors are mostly a rustic pine with a medium, slightly gray tone. There's a large espresso leather sectional and the wooden pieces are a light walnut sort of color. Soon I will be painting the kitchen cabinets a putty color, maybe a sort of gray-green, not sure. I have a few conifer botanical prints up over the sectional. There's no other artwork except for a wedding photograph, which is basically black and white. I will be putting up more b&w photos in the foyer. The red furniture will be the most colorful pieces in the home. And to me the red clashes with the exterior door color. Does it matter though? It kind of bothers me, but I don't know. I'm not even sure what color to change the front door to anyway. Here are some more shoots of the front door. As you can see it needs to be repainted, but we are probably going to replace it with a nicer door anyhow. Here's the living room, it's very neutral. The red cabinet is going where the yellow post-it's are. Hopefully we will be redoing the fireplace surround. Carpet is being replaced and the trim will all be replaced with larger, white-painted stuff. Prints over sofa Dining room The floor plan downstairs is very open. And as you can see everything is very neutral. But the red cabinet will be bold. I'd like the exterior color scheme to reflect the interior somewhat and since the eggplant clashes with the red I don't think it works.

I understand! When the place we got all our doors and windows from told me they could get hardware too!, I was so glad I didn't have to go around and around, just one catalog to choose from. That is coming today too, so excited to see it all put together. Don't know if interior doors will get installed in the next few days. My contractor is doing them and he is working on getting the bath done, so they may sit a few. But that is OK, they are here! Will post pics soon! Toodles, Laura

Windows on Washington - re photos: I don't know that my "before and after" photos will be that dramatic. I've ordered the identical style door in the identical color. Where the current door is awful doesn't really show up in photos. The door is uninsulated, and thin-gauge, and the sidelites are single-pane. The frame looks fine, but if you press your finger on it (especially at the bottom), it is either spongey in wet weather, or crumbly and brittle in dry weather. I could post a pic of the carpenter ant sawdust (which I learned is called "frass") along the bottom of the sidelites--but that would be gross. I have been told that Home Guard's "Timberframe" composite option is not appealing to carpenter ants. I also plan to spray Delta Dust all around while the opening is open. I will post just the "after" photos when it's installed.

Vstavay- thanks for this! I really like the evergreens, repetition and making that bed in front of the house much larger. I hadn't considered that. I'm not sure if we can put a tree on the left due to the cistern proximity, but we really could use one. Thanks again!