Northpolehome- Our electrician is charging around 45/ per dimmer in our house. We had 4 included in our contract and we added a couple extra. One of the places we added a dimmer was the shower. I can't remember if it was GW or my lighting designer that gave me that idea but I thought it was a good one since our shower has 2 can lights and it may be nice at times not to get blasted with light in there. Other areas people tend to put on dimmers: island lights, anywhere you will be watching tv, dining light, master bedroom overhead lights if you have them (we did add 2 cans to the mbr) I'm debating putting the IC/UC lights on dimmers but the electrician says very few do that. Not sure if I should or not. As far as the original topic, I asked the opinions of a few people (besides GW) and they thought the light was fine for the space. Certainly we could go larger also. I love the fixture itself so I'm going to leave it. Northpole you correctly remembered I did originally want a lantern and we could not find one that would work because of height. It would have been too tall and hung down too low. I didn't care for other styles of flushmount bell jar lanterns. That fixture may not be as dramatic an element as it could be, but when people open the door their eyes are going to go to our huge window wall anyways. So I'm going to play the understated card here I guess ;)

DH started collecting the Noah's Ark prints before we were married. He likes the artist and he wanted to gave the whole set. They do make great conversation pieces...any time someone comes into our house they comment on them and spend a couple minutes looking at them. They're not my favorites but since he lives in the house too... And we have 3300 sq ft so there should be plenty of room to hang these along with artwork that's more to my liking. Here's the artwork we currently have. The first one is the only one I really like. The last one is the largest. This is a graphite drawing we got on our honeymoon...thinking of putting it in a larger frame with a mat and put it on the buffet. To give an idea of the type of artwork I like, this is what I'm planning on putting in our dining room.

The front porch landing is concrete and is at the same level as the front foyer. Is that how/ why the previous flooring got water damaged? Your house, your call. I still like the slate idea. Is there a side lite on the other side of the door? Because the sidelights help a whole bunch in keeping the foyer light. I have a slate entry as well as sidelites. They were half lights & had to be replaced. Opted for full lites almost identical to the one in your picture and it made a huge difference.

I have the outlets with the built in USB ports and they are hit or miss. We've had 2 malfunction out of the 4 we installed but I still like them. If you need to plug in something with a bulky plug, it doesn't allow access to the ports. Also, I think a console table with drawers would be useful. I would use it to sort mail and keep a couple of emergency items like a flashlight in there. I keep the items needed to charge my Ring and a few other things in there. Handy to have for sure,