Oh, you could do so many things. If it's not exposed to harsh, drying conditions, you could do azaleas, which are beautiful both in bloom and out of bloom. I would do roses, I think, if you have the sunlight. Fragrant roses that bloom nearly all season. They require some effort on your part, but seeing their beauty and catching the heady scent of fragrant rose blossoms as you walk in the door is a joy. And those pots aren't too big for them. This is a picture of a David Austin rose (David Austin roses are beautiful and often fragrant): This post was edited by lelia on Wed, May 15, 13 at 12:10

Thanks cyn - the porch is 7ft deep. We gain a little space by having no railing (it's only 18" high except at the end where we did need to put a railing). I don't know that we could have put a coffee table in front of a LS though. Might have to put things on angles. I just don't want chairs lined up along the wall like Cracker Barrel! I would love to have a deep porch/sunroom like NHB and natal. Silly me, 7ft seemed huge on paper (with no experience to go by). There is one house in neighboring town I absoultely love - wide front porch with stone walls/planting beds and stone steps in front going down to front lawn with a pond. I think I love it so much b/c the porch is so big and has so much furniture you can tell it's made for entertaining. But extending the porch or stairs on ours would mean pulling out stonework and plants - not sure I'm up to that since we've spent the past 2 years putting them in. Our porch is just for us sitting out with coffee watching the birds in AM (though it's west), sitting and shucking corn in summer evenings, etc. Maybe we can build a big screened porch/sunroom out back instead of a deck off the FR/kitchen. But that's another post/another project. I'll just have to keep looking for front porch furniture - any idea on size/depth/arrangement of furniture to avoid the "Cracker Barrel" look? NHB - I love both your houses, you have done an awesome job designing and decorating. What did you ever decide to do with curtains in your DR?

IMO paint the trim there is nothing special about it and it does not work with the floors and then just white walls to work with the art BTW I love that you got the art first and want to enhance it. I totally agree art you love will always work in your space.BUT before doing one more thing fix your lighting , every bulb should be LED 4000K to mimic daylight and it will help a lot when choosing anything else.BTW that pillow does not work with that art IMO to much like you tried to make it work. We have quite a large collection of art and I find our very pale gray walls work well and in our case better than a pure white I used Vancouver Day C2 and a bit darker shade in the bedroom . We tend to like the art to be the star .

I like trim the same color as the cabinets and you can even use that same color for the walls so the trim semi gloss or satin and the walls matte or maybe white for everything is not what you should do. I need to see all of the spaces you are painting . White walls are not for everyone's style . Sorry I am still trying to figure out how you load the DW.