Thank you! So much great feedback. Sadly, the paint job is a necessity rather than just aesthetics -- paint on the back side is failing pretty badly & peeling off in layers. (After reading up on the paint forum, I think it was just too many layers of latex on top of old oil paint without adequate prep.) Maybe we will keep it close to current color. I'm not sure what color it is, but I'll have to stop by the BM store and pick up a tab for Briarwood. I think those color visualizers are just a bit off, at least on our monitor -- Down Pour is a very smurf-y blue on my screen. Luckily, SW store is right down the street. Of the SW colors, we liked Mineral Deposit -- gray, but not quite so dark. Johnmari, my wife said exactly that about warm trim looking bad with cool gray field color. I just want to get away from the current ultrawhite, just tone down a bit but not too much. Shutters? I think we will someday, after we've finished the essentials. Of course, being picky, I don't want to just screw aluminum shutters that don't match window size on there, so might be a while given that real shutters & hardware are pricey. The suggestion about doing the sash black is good--that could look really sharp and make the windows pop a bit more until we can dress it up a bit more with shutters. Absolutely agreed on the landscaping solutions. Could be more varied and it would add a lot. THANK YOU for all your suggestions, such a helpful group & nice little corner of the internet.

Thanks, everyone! I tried a hot Dawn soak, a hot vinegar scrub, a salt scrub, and nothing was budging. I feel bad, but I pitched it into the recycle bin. Our town takes cast iron pots, and it seemed the highest and best use for it! The Wagner griddle cleaned up -- it was from Mom's personal stash, not yard sale stuff, so it didn't need much work. Now it is seasoning in the oven, and smelling up the house. ;-) HOWEVER, the bottom is just very slightly warped. It doesn't sit perfectly level, but you could still make a crepe or pancake in it, I think. So I poured a half inch of water in it and put it on the induction stove. It boiled evenly across the surface. What do you think? Would you keep it?

Just my opinion, but i don't understand the use of the material vertically that creates the wedge for the roofs. I know that treatment is similar to one of the pictures you liked, but in the picture you like, the material (or at least the same color) comes down the side in a contiguous line and also the other material on the side goes up into the roof line as rafters. The two are woven together. The most recent drawings above need the materials to embrace each other rather than sit on each other. My line of sight keeps starting and stopping with no help from the materials on where to go next. What if the entire front of the garage were cedar (Not the garage door, just the siding) and the sides (below the wedge) were grey and the cedar somehow came down the front of the part of the house on the left, either to the right of the windows (long narrow strip) or down the center between the windows, top to bottom? This suggestion might look awful when drawn. I don't have any drawing tools but i have a very vivid imagination. :-)

Old thread, but I've been searching PPG paint colors with very little success. Everything is about SW and BM, but our builder uses PPG. Thanks for sharing your final colors, it looks great. I am considering Agreeable gray too, but feel it is too dark. Whiskers it doesn't look dark in your home at all so I might have to get a sample of that one. I was looking at Silent Smoke with Delicate White cabinets too.