Here is an old image of the elevation of the home we are building. I colored in the areas to be stucco (light grey) and stone (dark grey). Ignore the off center windows of the circular staircase, they are really centered. I filled in with a red color on the windows. The windows I am thinking about using are the brick red color from Pella. The way our lot is set, the best way to have our garage was front entry. Well, the garage is really at an angle. I wouldn't know what to do with the garage doors and front entry door. I don't think I would want them red as well. I had planned on having a stained wood fiberglass or real wood to make them look as nice as possible, but I don't know what would go. I hope I'm not highjacking...

It's lovely, so much lighter and brighter. I like how you added more windows, even to the garage doors. Homes of that age often have small windows, and not many. It looks welcoming now!

@mccarroll16 There are 6 of us in the house, and our house is always the holiday house, so we are always cooking huge meals for the holidays. I've had to cook stuff out on my grill, inlaws bring their camping stove, etc. In a normal week we will cook 5 dinners, and usually have 3-4 large pots/skillets going and they never actually fit because they are too crowded. The Dacor I want is 48" with 6 burners, LOTS of space for each burner. I have a 35cm "Bigga" from Solidteknics that does not play well with other pans. I am pretty sure that on the Dacor is JUST might fit in it's own place. Our next choice is a Fisher & Paykel that has 8 burners. Also a realtor friend of ours suggested that having a 48" in a big house like ours, with a large kitchen would help the resell value. He told us this after we had pretty much decided to go with a 48". As for the drawers vs pull outs. We have a good mix of the two now and I don't like casserole dishes and things like that in a drawer. Mixing bowls and things, eh... With kids, they can easily dump stuff in a drawer, but a shelf requires them to do a little more work. I've heard mixed opinions on the resell value of a home that only has one or the other. Before I moved from Ohio my buddy and I built a pull out spice cabinet. It 6 or 8" wide and had three rows and you could get about 10 in each row. He bought like 60 matching containers and some fancy label stuff. The tops were all labeled. The next level down was "free for all" as he called it. He put his overflow or things that he didn't want in the top in there. The bottom was the "oil pit" where he has his cooking oils and things. I can't remember what he did on the bottom to help absorb and manage the mess that always accompanies them. On the OTHER side of his stove we had the utinsel drawer. The top had 3 "buckets" with the most commonly used stuff. There were 3 more on the bottom as well, and he put the less used ones and ones that were too tall in there. I'm pretty sure that one was 8", I know the "buckets" were 6" across. I am thinking that if I have 10-16" on each side that I could do something similar, but a little larger. Then in the corner it could just be a shelf that we use for the appliances we use MAYBE a dozen times a year.

IMO stone is best when it appears to be part of the actul construction not just glued on after so I would do around the foundation all around the house to meet the 18% and that is all . I would not do shakea t all on this house do vertical B%&B on the bottom and horizontal on the top white pillars and nice wide window trim. You do realize finding stone to work with the blue will be hard so start looking now.