Agree with Virgil about context being everything, so without that, there's lots of guessing. We also have a house on a narrow lot (vintage 1919) and houses nearby, though not as close as in one of the photos above. We did take into account which windows line up with which of our neighbors. On one side, we used obscured glass in the bathroom window and the other window has a cellular shade that is always down. It still brings in a wonderful soft light. the other side of our house is downhill and we leave the dining room window shades halfway down to obscure the roof of the one-story house, but open up the view to the sky. My point is that you just want to make sure you've thought all that through so you are not surprised or disappointed. Our house is very light for this climate, but it might look odd on a floor plan to see where the windows are placed. I would like to see some sketches of your house with a gabled roof, though.

Thank you all for taking the time to share your thoughts with me. I love hearing everyone’s opinions and greatly appreciate it. Looks like there is a decent consensus on the Sweet 100 so I will definitely give that one a try. Although, I have to admit, the purported size of the plant intimidates me a bit. I had originally hoped to try to stick with just determinate varieties this year but I am going to just scrap that. I will just give the Sweet 100 a 20-30 gallon SIP to itself and invest in a sturdy staking setup. I am not really interested in tomatoes for “slicing” I don’t think my landlords are either; although they are very excited for cherry tomatoes. Any other plants I choose will be used mostly for salsa and sauces which makes me initially lean towards planting a Roma. BER worries me but I am hoping that a SIP will help me in keeping my soil moisture as consistent as possible. Do you think Cobra, Lemon Boy, or Sub Arctic would work okay for sauces? I think Lemon Boy would make a very interesting salsa. I can’t say whether or not I like yellow tomatoes as I have no experience with them. Do you think Sweet 100 would work for a sweet basil marinara? Our nursery always used to carry Early Girl but, for some reason, they don’t have it this year. We had a farmer that used to come up biweekly to sell produce and he often had Sungolds. They always sold out fast and really helped me start liking fresh tomatoes. (I had no idea they could taste so sweet!) I will be haunting the local Cnd Tire and other stores closer to planting time to see what they have and if any of it is worth paying money for. Unfortunately, I have no space available for starting or nurturing plants like toms inside. I am currently renting a small bachelor style basement suite that walks directly out to the back yard. I have one large east facing window but no room for any type of grow setup at the moment.

I know that there is a lot of discussion about the location of laundry rooms. I grew up in a house with the laundry room right next to the kitchen, and that was fairly innovative for the time the house was built in our area where laundries were typically in the basement or in a room near the garage. In my own places I've had to put laundries in two of them, the previous owners used a common laundry facility or the laundromat. I have had three different locations 1) off the master bedroom in a large walk in closet 2) in the kitchen 3) in the basement (currently) In each case location was dictated by where it would fit best. I think there are pros and cons to each. In the house I grew up in, while laundry was done regularly by my mother, when I was little there was a baby sitter who also got paid to iron because everything in my house got ironed at that point. Later there was a cleaning lady who did sheets towels and blankets as a part of her job, and as my mother became increasingly disabled it was good to have the laundry off the kitchen because she literally came downstairs in the morning and did not go upstairs all day long if she was home alone, her mobility was very limited. So off the kitchen was great, she could do laundry next to the two rooms she spent the most time in, the kitchen and the library. (The cleaning lady also set the ironing board up in the library next to the laundry room so she could watch TV while she ironed, which took hours) When I had mine in the master bedroom closet, honestly it was very convenient, but on the other hand things rarely ever got fully put away, because it was all right there, dirty clean, everything. For me it got sort of disorganized, and if I wanted to iron shirts or something, I didn't want to iron in the closet. So I dunno, that location was okay because the laundry was done where it was generated but it became very disorganized for us. In the kitchen, the benefit to this was you had to do it and put it away, and you would rarely do a washer load and then forget to put it in the dryer or to start the dryer. Other than that I did not like it right in the kitchen. Ours will currently stay in the basement because the rest of the house isn't laid out for it to go anywhere else but I don't think it will bother me too much. If I was able to put it anywhere I would probably put it in a separate laundry room near the kitchen if my house was big enough to do so. For us the current convention of having it closest to the bedrooms was not optimal for us in terms of keeping things organized.

Here is your house with samples of tony taupe and accessible beige on it. Adding these colors seems to give your brick a cooler look. Hard to say with internet images and computer monitors. Can you take a good photo closeup of your brick to compare colors? The best thing to do is buy a couple of samples of the colors and paint up big samples on poster boards and look at them with your brick and garage doors to see how they look in natural light. In bright sunlight outdoors they could look completely different.