gbsim Your house with real wood trim, moulding and doors look very lovely, warm and grounded. Don't let anyone paint that beautiful wood trim in awful contractor special white that looks shiny and tacky at the same time. I am so tired of looking at cheaply done MDF shiny white trim on so many houses that it is a breath of fresh air to see real wood trim and moulding. Not only does the MDF and bad paint job make the trim look shiny, most people end up picking stark white that makes the trim look like pimples with make up on it. Coupled with strong paint color on the walls, whew! Good luck selling your house! It really has kept its age well. I know what you are talking about: the unknown construction quality. We have gutted and redid our house. There is nothing left of the original house. We can't imagine not knowing how things were done behind the walls. My husband even had them put metal flashing between each joins of the lap siding! (kind of extreme but...) We have a walk out basement: we call it daylight basement here. They don't live like basemnet at all. I suggest exploring in floor hydronic heating for the basement slab. It is expensive but it makes the basement quite comfortable.

There are a lot of colours that are warm and traditional. It's hard to advise without seeing the rooms; do you maybe want to post some pictures of your family room and countertop? One final note, it's great to make a change and try out something new, but you also don't have to go too far out of your comfort zone. Just because white on white on white kitchens with grey thrown in are the rage doesn't mean one is right for you!

When was the house itself built? The interior design aspects are on point with the mid 1980s but the architecture is earlier mid century. I can't really picture someone building a house in that style and decorating aspects of it in late Modernism/post Modernism at the same time. I can picture someone updating a 1960-odd house this way.

It's a great house. These 'shed' houses look best to me monochromatic- I would paint everything (except the stone) Sherwin Williams Black Fox or Urbane Bronze. When you can afford it the deck handrails could use updating ( I would replace some sections with stadium stairs and others with glass). Otherwise punch up the landscaping a bit and you are good to go. The pine next to the house is so pretty, I don't love the cedar between the garage and the entrance, it looks like it is in the way?