The brick red looks good, to tell you the truth (except for the white around the window, of course).

Creative Visual Concepts, Kevin Strader Thank -you! I will check your site out tonight! Since we are looking at everything, I want to take the opportunity to make the decisions that will work together best, rather than pick a favourite shingle and when I finally decide on colour/garage door regret I didn't go browner/grayer etc. celerygirl Thank-you. Keeping the columns saves a few pennies for other fun projects! We are struggling with how light/dark to do the house and what colour - or even if it should be more than one. Do we paint the bands to match the stucco, or keep them as an accent. Garage door light/dark/wood. The prevailing colour of the all stucco houses here are various shades of beige, with some people now re-doing into various shades of gray. Is there a better look than all one colour of beige/gray? Right now the section where the front door is matches the columns. My inclination remains to maybe keep this section a different colour from the rest of the house (But keep the columns matching the body of the house?) Could this other colour carry onto the 2nd storey portion of the house as well? Or the front of the garage?

IMO all the windows should be the same style . Is that a garage on the left side ? There is no reason a closet can't have a window I happen to love the window in my closet . As for someone to help go to find a pro on this site that is in your area. BTW where is your architect in this process that is really the person you need to discuss this with. I would need to see your choices but they seem a bit off to me color wise. I like black windows for sure and tan and gray do not work together in my head.

Actually, the windows aren't the right style/size for shutters, especially the lower left window. Even decorative shutters should be sized right. That means each shutter should be half the window's width. Hard to do on double windows without it looking odd. You could get by with it on the upper windows with wider shutters, but I'd go with just a nice, wide trim. ETA - This link might help more. https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/residential-architecture-101-shutters/