Will all of the changes make it through the addition? Or are you talking just discarding 20K and doing something else then?

I think you would be best served by your architect who is planning the addition, to also plan the exterior renovations, and do those at the same time as the addition.

In the mean time, paint the door a happy color. A quart of paint is an instant pick me up!

There won't be an architect. My husband is a contractor. Between us and my parents (also contractors) we have alot of materials i could use. I don't want a happy color, I want a good coordinating color and ideas on how to make it not look so flat and dull.

The picture is too close in. Back up and show us the house.

I think you will be better served planning the whole exterior so it smoothly transitions to the new addition. The overall plan will be more cohesive if make all the decisions before you try to patchwork quilt the exterior. You would hate to pick things that will clash with the new addition. You only have six pictures in your idea book. A few evenings spent searching through traditional exteriors or other phrases that appeal to you on Houzz will help you decide what makes your heart happy. Save them to your idea book and be sure to make notes about why it drew your attention. I found it useful to save pictures of things I didn’t like-for example, “this color too bright”, this light too fancy”, “this trim too heavy”. When we were building a house, I realized that all the pictures I had saved had a common theme and color scheme that grabbed me. I looked in my closet and saw a majority of my wardrobe was blue-and realized not a room in my house had blue! It is my happy color! I use it liberally now that I know it makes me smile.

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