Our entry is like yours, except the foot of the stairs is between the front door and the kitchen. The kitchen doorway has a double door, two narrow doors in a regular opening. They swing into the kitchen. What I like: the look, the symmetry, the fact that they don't take up much space in the kitchen (a regular door would partially block a window and bump one person sitting at the table under the window). It is nice to close it off sometimes. When they are closed, they look less like "this is a closed door, no entry" unfriendly;they are more interesting than a single door. What I don't like: the light switch is behind one of the doors! Now, it's only a small door so the switch is barely behind it, but it means the door is often not quite all the way agains the wall. Honestly, how hard could it have been to move the switch over? Our house has few double doors, so it all looks consistent.

Those items do not have to match, but they should correspond. And in this case I would not put ORB with reddish brown. If you're going to do two different metals that close to each other, they need to be different enough as to not look like you tried to match and failed. Either use the same metal or something strikingly different.

We just replaced our roof on our contemporary homes with black. I main body of the house is Garrett Grey (Sherwin Williams) . I feel the need to. Paint the trim a different color and add accent to the front door. What do you suggest?

@Anna & @NHBabs- I was trying to say add an above window pergola...not add a window =) We definitely don't have the room for that inside. I think with Dougs design a pergola would be too much though. We can definitely do a smaller, more affordable version of that gorgeous front deck. We are experienced DIYers and can do much or all of the work ourselves and with a few changes its completely affordable. I actually have more of the pavers from our walkway that can be added to the front area to widen that landing out some, though we won't go as wide on the left side as is shown because our yard gets narrower there against the neighbors yard. We can do stone that matches our existing stone out back on the steps and instead of stone columns we can do thick wood posts with black metal caps, and the affordable black aluminum railings that we had planned anyway, which would match our new back deck perfectly. We have considered stone in the chimney at some point in the future, though it won't be next year. It won't be quite as grand as Dougs design but gives a very similar look for alot less $$. I think to the left of the door we can add a long, covered, decorative bench box for wood storage in that space. That way we have wood for a week in the winter without trudging to the fire wood shelters out back every day or so. (We have 2 wood stoves that get used alot in the winters here.) We never use our entrance unless we are going out the front door for mail, and all our friends use the back entrance as there is ample parking out there. I can see us sitting out there on the deck with a glass of wine in the shade though. Since the only visitors we get out front are deliveries and people selling stuff, we probably don't need to add anything for sheltering them lol. Still struggling with house color. Currently its a pale yellowish color my husband hates (ditto for me) and it clashes with our new stone. We were thinking maybe something more earthy in a brown/gray...meaning not just brown or gray, something with a mix of both. Or maybe a darker beige. We'd like to darken it up a bit. The shingles are a dark gray but do have a little brown/tan in them along with the black and gray. Its called Canadian Driftwood.