xamsx: I've seen plenty of bad photos that were from "professionals." Our local MLS is full of bathrooms with toilet seats up, fuzzy/dark/out of focus shots, kitchens with cluttered counters and dishes in the sink, backs of chairs/plants in the foreground, cats on couches, I could go on and on. We were FSBO for a while and had professional photos on our website. When we hired a realtor, we told them they could just use our photos, but they wanted to take their own set. I had to veto most of their photos because they weren't taken as well as ours. And they seemed oblivious to details like shadows on the front of the house, shoes/purses visible where they had left them, etc. So don't be stereotyping FSBOs. :-)

Your roof slope is very different from the houses you show. Porches and gables don't suit your house at all. I don't know if you have ever read "A Pattern Language", a very influential book about architecture and residential planning. The book has a whole chapter "Sheltering Roof" which encourages architects to use a very visible, low roof just like yours to give a welcoming, sheltering feeling to a house. I like your house style very much. Landscaping is what your house needs the most. With its more modern vibe, you could use a MCM landscaping style which uses architectural-looking plants such as grasses, evergreen shrubs and spiky plants such as yucca. Use rectangular beds rather than curved, and plant each bed with one type of plant rather than mixing them. The big white garage door stands out too much. A modern-style wood door would be beautiful but pricey. Or paint it a color that blends in, something similar to the overall color of your stone as seen from a distance.

This looks like a fairly petite space to work in, and I think you will have to think about what are you willing to give up to increase the kitchen a bit. But, I like the living space as you have it today. I don't know that I would take away too much from that area. In the kitchen you have a door to the outside, and on the other side of that door looks like a place for coats and boots, yes? That area looks like a good place to extend your kitchen with another work zone and additional storage. That could function as a beverage center (coffee, mixed drinks) or as a baking center (mixer, all the baking stuff) or any other prep function that doesn't rely heavily on the sink. Removing the soffit and extending the cabinets up would gain you more storage space in the main kitchen. As would extending the opening around the fridge to allow for a cabinet over the fridge. If the buyers extended themselves pretty far to afford this place, I would focus on space allocation and no real construction. Ikea has a lot of great ideas for maximizing small spaces and using all nooks and crannies smartly.

Well, we've gone round the world looking at possibilities. I think that if you are going to embrace Tudor, you do it up right. Classic is classic usually because it works. I suggest you use Partim's rendering of Tudor with the brown trim. I agree that you should add a few more pieces of trim over the garage as illustrated in the picture. It makes it more Tudor, not less. I also like how painting the garage door brown, the same color as the trim, and no trim on the garage door unifies the look and minimizes the big door expanse. It looks less carnival than the current pink. It's pretty funny, but I vote for making the home more Tudor. In England, there are areas where they mix the stones with brick. It's quite the classic. When I was a very little girl, I remember having to ride in the car with my mother as she drove my brother to school each morning. We would pass through a very affluent neighborhood that was filled with Tudor style houses. I used to call them ice cream sundae houses because they looked like vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup dripping down them. Yummy.