Interesting, but yikes! As I recall, a buddy of mine was visiting factories in thailand and a prized skill among workers was being a cobra catcher! Not sure I'd want cutouts and such in my roof there! I wouldn't sleep all night!

We have a reproduction saltbox and originally stained it BM Nantucket Grey with Lancaster Whitewash trim - both from the BM historic color chart. After 10 years we wanted to go with something different, but historically accurate. After visiting Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH we fell in love with one of the historic homes painted an ocher yellow. After talking to the curator we learned that BM has the exact color in their historic line. It's called Chestertown Buff. We complemented that with Hepplewhite Ivory trim and Yorktown green for the front door. We absolutely love the combination and have received many compliments. The colors are available in small sample sized jars at most BM dealers.

Red can work beautifully on an exterior... thousands of old barns can't be wrong! Personally, I think the "barn red" colors can definitely benefit from a tweak of white, especially in such a shaded setting - I would do a bit less of the trim in charcoal since you're planning a charcoal/black roof (charcoal overload!), and add white to pick out details, especially around the entry which is much more Classical in style. A paler version of the charcoal, up a few levels on the chip-strip, would give you a slatey blue-gray which would be fantastic for the front door, with bright-brass lighting, hardware (entryset, knocker, kickplate). High-quality brass doesn't have that weird bright-yellow plasticky appearance - check out Baldwin for some nice things that aren't budget-breakers. I notice you have a cupola with a weathervane on the plan and a bright brass weathervane will show up well againt the trees, picking up the sunlight (I love thickly-wooded lots - we left one behind with our last move and I miss it). Consider bypassing the generic louvered shutters in favor of a very slightly dressier panel style. Remember that shutters should at least LOOK like they're functional, even if they don't actually open/close, including hardware like hinges and shutter-dogs or hooks. I'm probably going to p___ off more than a few people but the "obviously-fake shutter stuck flat to the wall with no hardware" look is IMO really tacky, doubly so if they're plastic.

Squirrels get to all the pumpkins around here sooner or later. I have little pumpkins sitting on my fence posts. I sprayed them with scented floor cleaner to discourage the squirrels. I hope they last until Halloween. In the end I let the squirrels have them.