There’s a lot of stone on the front of our house

What does the house look like?

Stone isn't paint where you may choose any color. Find the perfect stone, then select a paint color to complement it.

I’m confused— is the stone already there? Or are you building and stone is in the plan?
As above, you’d stone choice would come first and the siding after.
And if you prefer really bright white siding as a “ look”, I expect it’ll be harder to mix that with stone since most are more on earthy side of colors, or at least, it seems more stone houses try to aim for softer warmer tones, and grout also more toned down.
But, we don’t have much information to go on.

Granite

Let’s see if I can explain it

This is a picture of the elevation of the house, but not our color scheme. Siding is SW extra white, shutters/front door are SW peppercorn.

Its all being done in a weird order because I can only pick from about 20 exterior color schemes. So I picked the SW extra white scheme because I like White Houses and it was the only option they had for our community. They are letting me break free from the mold though and pick any stone that they have (8 options) and not just the one that was paired with the scheme by the designer.

Trying to make my options work and this is a brand new floor plan that has never been built. So can’t see it elsewhere.

To complicate things further they didn’t even have a sample to show me of the stone that is paired with the SW extra white color scheme I chose.

So I know that’s a super broad question, but guess I’m asking just in general what undertones do y’all think go best with SW extra white. Natural earth colors? Gray?

Hope this helped! Thank you!

Not big fan of posted picture. Do You have pictures of 8 stone options? Is the roof going to be black?

no stone at all.

This is difficult, because I agree, for this house no stone is desirable, but if you did use all that expanse if stone, you’d probably not want Extra White siding. I say probably since you aren’t showing stone options.
Need a way to see your choices.
So advice would be, skip the stone altogether if you still can. Otherwise, part of your question was , “ warm colors?”- answer normally , No, since white siding color you chose should read crisp cool white rather than any creamy warm tones.

Thank you everyone for your insight!! I think I don’t like any of the stone options because they don’t go well with the SW extra white when there’s that much stone on the house. Only one gray stone and it is very gray with little variation in color. I don’t think I could take the stone off that elevation but I might be able to switch to this other elevation. I don’t like the 1 window on top of the house vs the 3 windows on the other elevation which is why I originally went with the elevation with stone. Might need to pick this one instead though and skip the stone. Thoughts? Would be a different color brick. Not red. More a cream/gray brick. And yes charcoal roof.

I don’t have a picture of all the stone options but this is an example of the gray stone on a house with the SW extra white siding. The rest are earth tones.

This is a natural stone option

The color of the stone does not matter, the location of the stone shown in the image is bad. Stone (fake or real) is best used in a traditional structurally honest manner aesthetically. The only way stone should be used on this house is on the foundation all the way around the house. If that can not be done, no stone.

@Mark Bischak, Architect, OP might not have option NOT to have stone or saying regarding the stone placement. Her decision might be just limited to color scheme.

You might be wrong.

I might..., but OP wrote : "I don’t think I could take the stone off that elevation but I might be able to switch to this other elevation".

I’m going to ask if I can take the stone off, but I HIGHLY doubt it. And in that case I would need to choose the other elevation if the stone is that bad aesthetically

There is lot of good advice here from professionals so checking what you can/cannot do is a good idea.

Why do builders think it's a good idea to have THREE different siding materials???? I'd be angry if I were not able to simplify the design.

It should actually cost the builder less to do siding versus stone

Makes sense that it should cost less, but if he orders exactly what he needs ahead of time, in huge quantities, perhaps you're messing up his process by making a simple change.

Some housing developments require a certain percentage of stone or brick on new builds... so OP may not be able to remove, but agree that specific home would look better without.

@musicgalnd and that is why I'd never live in one of those types of developments with dictatorial HOAs.

My advice is based on good design, and not on blanket unsubstantiated rules and regulations. When those rules and regulations support bad design, the OP should live next to Diane in the land of good design.

Mark, I appreciate your professional opinion and I ask this with respect. But what makes it bad design? When I ask my friends and family to choose their favorite exterior elevation - everyone chooses the one with the stone as their favorite.

I'll chime in on what is "bad design" even though you asked Mark. Too much of a good thing is not good. Three different siding materials (stone, horizontal clapboard and vertical board and batten), combined with the shutters, ornate railing, dormers, is just too much for the eye to behold. Simple is always best, and probably the most difficult to achieve. Also the stone that every builder is using just isn't organic. Unless it's in an area where the stone is a natural occurrence (in the earth) it's a contrivance. Most classic homes are rooted to a place, the materials chosen were the local ones that blended well with the surroundings. You wouldn't want to have a pueblo/stucco/clay tile roof home in on the East coast near the ocean. You use gray shingles or clapboard which was readily available in that area. Stone homes in Pennsylvania, brick in the Middle Atlantic. And that pueblo home out west in the desert. I'm not an expert on the many, many styles around the world, but it always helps to keep the local vernacular in mind when designing a home.

Perhaps the architects can add what I've missed.

Thank you Diana for chiming in! Appreciate your input as well! So if they let me take the stone off, do I just ask for horizontal siding to replace it? And I’m guessing the exterior with the brick pillars is just as bad design wise then?

My choice would be yes, all horizontal clapboard siding, no stone at all, no brick pillars, no dormers. Just like the photo above that @PPF. posted, but I'd not have any stone. That would be a lovely home.

When stone, or any masonry, is used as a building material it helps to know why the stone is there. Some homes were built originally as stone structures and over the years when the need to expand the home for some reason wood construction was a more reasonable material, and it was used. Some homes were built with a stone veneer but the mason did not have the means to get stone above the first floor ceiling. Some homes were designed to provide a more durable material, like stone, to a certain level; when a less durable material, like wood, from that point up.

Many modern day designers, educated or not, choose to use masonry as if it were paint. They confront themselves with the question of 'what color should that wall be'? And choose from the palette of white, orange and black, board & batten, fake stone, vinyl, cement, aluminum, stone, brick, and a variety of other colors/materials; with no historical, structural, or little context. We end up with one facade covered with stone and the others naked with plastic.

Thank you to everyone who commented and helped explain all this to me! Really appreciate your opinion and time! Not sure if they’ll let me change it but going to try!

PFF, the photoshop picture of the house without stone was really helpful visually so a special thanks for doing that!