Thank you. We were planning to take those curves out of the porch. You are right, they just don't fit!

One other color question - the fascia - brown to match the roof and cedar trim (like the last two pictures), or cream for contrast (like the first two pictures)?

No question, dark!

Neither - pick a mid-tone out of the stone and use color here - you are building a custom house. so make it really gorgeous and custom. I went to look at images of tennessee fieldstone on google. From those, I think a rust tone could be gorgeous, depending on your stone you might select a mossy green-gray. As long as it relates to the tones in the natural stone, you can't go wrong and it will add so much beauty to your home. If you stick with earth tones for your roof, go for the darkest brown you can purchase . . . in a slate look with variegation to the color. If they have a gray brown you would benefit most from this - a house needs to be lighter than its roof and brown just reads lighter than gray on roofs . . .a warm gray / earth toned deeper shade will look best in the long run.

Hi Kendra:
Since there are a lot of colors being mentioned in your potential scheme - you need to assemble all together to evaluate and adjust as needed- get a sample of the roof vs. a photo of the roof color ( contractor should be able to gain access to actual samples for your evaluation assemble together ( in a future post ? or photo but in ( not bright light) ALWAYS evaluate colors in natural light ?) send to me if you want me to evaluate)

Re: Do not agree with libra the soffit and facia should be treated as one unit ( color wise) as the roof and not follow the stone or other colors the idea is to unify these elements as one ---facia and soffit I would go with a darker version of the predominate color of the roof , but keep in mind that if you install a gutter it will need to match or close to match the facia
also note the freize board ( under the soffit should be the reg. trim color not the facia color
as in photo 3

Re: garage doors - should not be all one color ( to much contrast with house body color) - might want to consider a darker version of the main trim for the inset panels of the door

Ok. Thank you for the input. I feel more confident in moving forward with the darker windows.I will post some pictures and reevaluate when we get farther along. We had been planning to do stained garage doors to match the front door, like in the third picture above. I really like how the stain color brings out the browns in the stone. But we are open to other options.

wood garage door would be great but will take more to maintain make sure to use a spar varnish instead of polyurethane which has no UV protection I use spar on my commercial projects the finish last much longer ( poor husband) :-)

A color consultant in san francisco (home of the victorian painted ladies) once told me the window color should be darker than the trim surrounding it - a difficult thing to accomplish in this world of white vinyl windows. I would go with the darker window