It looks like two entirely different house were spliced together, a manor house and a tract home. Something besides a paint job needs to be done to the right side to bring congruity to this home, but what, I don't know. Will you also be upgrading to a wood or wood-look door?

There's no door shown???!

I see that now.

The door has always been to the left at the top of the stairs. At the top of the stairs there was a taller window, so we changed the size to match the other window. Our kitchen is behind the cedar siding that was painted when we bought the house.

I agree with Eileen on her two different houses comment. (I do see a smidge of brick just out of the picture to the right.)

Have you given any thought to making the right side appear as though it belongs to the left side? The windows in particular jump out at me. And could you find the same brick to place on your porch floor, sidewalk, and steps?

Could the cedar siding be stripped of its paint and still look decent?

Was this a project that the previous owners never finished? I'd be curious what the plans were for the right side. The brick work is gorgeous.

You can't ignore its Tudor leanings. You need a smooth material to replace the siding. Paint it white. Paint the porch posts and all the trim the soft black color of the trim on the tower.

It certainly looks like an unfinished project to turn a plain house into some kind of Tudor fantasy cottage. I don't know about the brickwork being gorgeous. The herringbone looks like a sheet of plasticky fake brick. I think you either need to double down and complete the European fantasy or get rid of the tower and allow the house to revert to its original honest American shape. Tudor houses don't have stoops or porches.

Here is a concept to start with...I made this rendering and then noticed @Eileen and I are on the same page.

The siding is to be an off-white, similar to English plaster color found on half-timber Tudors.

The posts, rails, steps and window trim are in your existing Charcoal Gray trim.

Three posts...do not frame the left window with another post or handrails on the door side.

Paint the foundation a neutral gray.

Address numbers and porch downlight/uplight to indicate the entry door.

No new shutters. No shutters at all-- and remove the existing ones on the porch...they are too much additional detail.

Neither my software nor my screen is good at exact colors so I hope this looks okay.

Flora luk is from England...I suppose she has a right to be picky about American interpretations of style...but the question is about the porch...the owners are working with what they have. Like most people do on our side of the pond..

My preference would be to abandon the Tudorbethan mashup and revert to an honest American home with a porch

Which, by the way, I very much like, but not on a Tudor cottage.

I wonder if using brick for both sides of the foundation and the steps might tie both sides together.

I think I'd play up the manor home idea. Not sure if the siding should be cream or a medium gray to sort of disappear. But then maybe rounded brick steps to tie in that space while giving the entrance more umph? (could be brick risers and stone tops) or squared but wider at the bottom than the top, anyway.

With the brick foundation and mid-tone grays siding..The rails and spindles should be a more formal design than shown.

Thanks, tracefloyd. I like the brick foundation and black steps. Not sure about the gray.

Oh, this house is so delightfully quirky! I wish I could see the rest of it.

I'd go full-on quirk and live out my days in "this-doesn't-quite-make-sense-but-who-cares-I'm-a-pricess!" glory.

That solution looks much better. The arches are quite authentic-looking with a Tudor shape. I'd skip the fake stone though and use a whitewash effect. Not blinding white but off white or cream. Even pale pink. The colour of real lime wash varies regionally depending on the local soil colour. Brick, timber and lime wash - Shrewsbury.

Brookie nailed it!! The only way to make this home look unified is to carry what's on the left over to the porch.

Here is a complete picture of the front. The house was built in 1950 as is, with the exception of the windows on the porch. The one at the top of the stairs used to be taller and the one to the right was double casement instead of single. See picture with the snow to see original window sizing.

The current size windows will have to stay due to the kitchen cabinet layout which sits behind the porch wall. We are open to changing the look of the windows, but the size and placement have to stay.

We will be adding all new landscaping once we figure out design of steps and sidewalk. We lost all shrubs the last 3 years due to extreme winters followed by extreme drought last summer.

Very nice house. I like these posts and corbels for your porch. Do you need a rail? Looks better without one like this:

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I think bringing the brick across the front is key to marrying these very different styles. No exposed cement foundation.

We would love to do that, but we can’t find brick to match. We had multiple companies searching over a 6 month time period for us because we are doing an addition on the back of the house. Once landscaping is back in, it will hopefully hide the majority of the exposed foundation.

Thank you for all the feedback and suggestions!! I’m definitely challenged with envisioning design changes without examples, so the mockups have been so helpful.

Should we also paint the diamond windows to match the dark trim or keep them the light cream color?

Oh my, it is SO CUTE! I'm not sure the stone I stuck in there is the best stone choice, but is matching old brick difficult? I don't know much about brick.

It's also kind of dark with all brick. Making the posts lighter helps with that, but because the house wants to be tudor it doesn't feel quite right, so then my brain goes paint the brick... and then we're in a rabbit hole. lol

I put stucco in there but it looked just slightly different than what's where now and the stone texture seemed more eye catching.

Really, I'm just having fun photoshopping your adorable house. Good luck with your choices!

I'd keep the windows the light cream.

When I was looking at Tudor home photos yesterday, I saw one that had the foundation stained a deep terra cotta that matched the brick. It looked nice.

I think it's good for the diamond glass windows to be white or cream, a different color from the full pane windows...they are so different. It is better actually to be a different color. it helps distinguish the unique diamond pattern. I like the contrast from the porch windows...interesting visually.

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Thanks for the like. With the white trim in the pillars, the white diamond windows make more sense because they can relate to something else that is white. The white could be replaced with the cream as mentioned...for the windows and the pillars.

Yesterday I saved two photos of Tudors. I posted only one but the other just happens to be the one with the stained foundation! It's a muted clay color that recedes nicely.

Imo, the white posts make it seem like a farmhouse.

Well then the light gray arches from Brookie. Those are gorgeous. And with the matching light gray diamond windows.

It all depends on which color M E chooses for the siding section. I personally would use a lighter color there and darker posts to match the trim on the tower.

I think Brookie Brooke was on to something.

Your house reminds me a bit of Hampton Court (Henry VIII's palace), with its towers, geometric flower beds, and shrubs/trees clipped into cones and balls. Maybe play that up a bit? Brick-ish color for the back wall of the porch, so it blends into the background and lets the tower and timber detailing be the focus? Add heavy timber porch posts (unequal spacing as shown, two framing widened steps and the left window, two similarly spaced on the right, with a wider opening in the middle framing the right window and table/chairs, with black iron stair railings coming off the posts? Frame the porch windows with timber as well, to give them more presence, and add the diamond grids to match the other windows? Then create a scaled-down version of Hampton Court's landscaping, with clipped hedges/cones/balls and small, bright, geometric flower beds? If you're lucky enough to live in a palace, it might as well look like one! :)

Wow the dark arches look nice with those landscapes. Gorgeous.

simplynatural for the win!!

The last post from simplynatural nailed it!