Hello! After years of searching, we think we finally found our dream home… except its at the TOP of our price range so we are hoping to avoid a bunch of renovations if they’re not necessary. The home is beautiful - brick, 3 car garage, 5 bedroom, 4 bath, remodeled kitchen, mud room, first floor office (I work from home), basement media room, covered deck, patio, large in ground pool and lots of yard space for the kids.

One thing we don’t love is the light oak railing leading up the steps and going across the second floor catwalk. We’d love to update it but we aren’t sure what would look best… considering either 1) painting the spindles and railing white, 2) panting the spindles white and painting/staining the railing a medium-dark brown or 3) painting/staining the railing (probably medium-dark brown) and swapping out the spindles for decorative wrought iron ones. What do you guys think would look best?

Here’s a couple pics for context…

And here’s some photos of the rest of the home to get a feel for colors, etc.

And heres some of the potential design ideas.

We‘d need to make an offer tomorrow if we are going to. Thanks!!