Hi All,

We signed a contract for new home. It will take about 4-5 months to be built, but we are so excited. Being first time home buyers, it is a dream which has finally started coming together.
But it was really overwhelming to go to the design center and having to make all those choices. With no experience of doing this and no idea of how things would look together – it was very difficult.

We need help !

A little intro about the home itself. – It is a beautiful open floor plan and it is big – about 3800 sft. The main areas are nice and open – I can give a link to the floor plan if it helps.

A little intro about our likes and dislikes – we are in our early 30s – we like mostly modern – not exactly contemporary but we like the home to be clean and crisp. Bright and airy (good we have lot of windows).

The choices we made till now are:

1.Danner Shaw 223 caramel flooring ( http://www.shawhf.com/colors.aspx?id=10222&s=93996 – it is 223 caramel)
2.Aristokraft Saybrook Birch Rouge for kitchen cabinets ( http://www.aristokraft.com/styles/product_detail/?id=280)
3.Santa cecillia countertop granite -
4.Aristokraft Landen Maple Sarsaparilla for bathroom cabinets ( http://www.aristokraft.com/styles/product_detail/?id=292)
5.Interior pain color Ice berg SW 6798 (Sherwin Williams - http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/SW6798-iceberg/)
6.Capecod brick exterior – with Linen exterior trim – Linen painted shakes – Ledgestone aspen stone – rustic black roof shingles
7.Flooring in sunroom is Shaw casa grande azucar ( http://www.shawhf.com/colors.aspx?id=11248&s=106416)
8.Flooring in master bedroom is shaw roma chai (700) ( http://www.homefoundationsflooring.com/colors.aspx?id=46757&s=351256)

We are not very sure about how it is going to be overall – if these are good or bad – straight right ugly.

We plan to paint some rooms after closing – ex: kitchen – some kind of yellow, guest bedroom – some kind of light lavender, master bed – some other color (not decided)


Now question time:
First – thank you for reading through patiently.

1.Interior – the floor with the kitchen cabinets – will that combination of cherryish against caramel flooring look good
2.Interior – the bath cabinets are different color than the kitchen – is it common to do this ?
3.Interior – paint color Ice berg – is it good for majority of the home (considering we are going to paint sosome rooms other colors)
4.Exterior – linen siding +trim against capecod brick – will it look fine – we drove around a lot but really could not see this combination much.
5.Suggestions for some good yellows (not to bright, still kinda neutral) and some good light light lavender for spare bedroom

Thank you so much for reading. And any kind of suggestions will be helpful.