Top: the original design from a magazine. The stone fronts are a little too much. Too complicated with the extra roof lines.
Bottom: A little slapdash Photoshop job turns it into a simpler house, though now it looks a little too plain. A carriage house garage door has been added.
Our house would be built in the "mountain sage" colour hardiplank. This colour looks a little strange with stone fronts. It's as if a plank house has swallowed a stone house, but cannot digest the whole thing, so a part of it is leftover.
Top: With the green colour, the house doesn't look too plain even without the stone fronts or the stone border.
Bottom: The house can be made much cuter by adding gable ornaments (aka "gingerbread", aka "gable pediment").
It would be even better if the finials on the gable ornaments can be removed. They aren't exactly sharp, but having pointy things hanging pointed down over your head just doesn't feel right.
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