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It was a conversation I was keeping well out of too, Petal :)
 
Thanks everyone for the comments, and thanks again Marisa for your input on the tile!!

So here is what is happening ...

I went to the tile place on Sunday with my husband. He immediately disliked the tile I had picked out with all the different patterns and insisted it would not look right. Now, my husband has pretty much let me make EVERY design decision up to this point. He has just let me do my thing with the house, so I knew he must have felt strongly about it to say something. So we ended up picking out a new tile with the help of a guy who worked there and actually seemed to know a bit about it. I showed him samples of my counters, floors, the other subway, etc. We narrowed it down to 3 choices. The first choice was similar to my original idea -- a patterned tile with a wow factor, the second choice was another white tile with a texture that would be very subtle, and the 3rd choice was a marble with a crown trim. We decided to go with the marble. I just felt like it was more timeless, and would compliment the granite, cabinets, paint, etc.
Here it is:
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So, now that that is said and done, I have a new design dilemma (it's never ending!) They put up my cedar posts and I need to decide what stain color to use. I am struggling, once again, and would appreciate any ideas! I do want them to look like stained wood, so solid paint is probably out, although I am open to any ideas. The house will be painted a greige.

This is the house paint, on the left, called "Ghost Writer":

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Here are the beams and front porch:

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Here are the stain choices, although I can have them mix any color ...
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Now for the W30 -- I have fallen off the rails the past few days. Going to try to board the train again today, lol.
 
What Petal said. I´d be so overwhelmed with all those choices! Which, incidentally, might make me prone to binging. Best get back on track right away, if only because it makes your head clearer!
 
Hi Jenni! I like your new, very classic tile for the stove backsplash. I like what you chose, too, but they are definitely very different vibes! You sound like me and my husband. I tend to pick out bolder things than he is comfortable with, too!

With your stain, I would prop up samples next to your stonework with the color of the siding next to it at 2 or 3 different times of day (because colors change in the different lights and because colors for things outdoors need to be more saturated for them to not wash out in the sunshine, so you want to pick your colors in the actual light outdoors). I would try to pull out some of the brownish hints in the stone by matching them somewhat in color, and I wouldn't go very dark in tone with the wood because your eye gets drawn to contrast, so if you want your eye to be drawn more to the front door, and less to the columns that frame the front door, then lighter would work better. You could also get a little scrap of your wood and see if it looks good to just clear coat it. If you don't have any varnish around, you could use a jar of clear nail polish to make yourself a sample. Also you have pretty pigmented wood - is it redwood? So with the semi-transparent stain, the wood color could influence the color, especially if you are only doing one coat. Also is this a really sunny spot where you will need to do 2 coats of stain so it doesn't fade? Maybe you want to get a sample of your stain you pick out and take a piece of scrap wood and see what either 1 or 2 coats looks like on it. This all sounds sort of fussy, but the front door area is the first impression of the house, so I fussed over mine a long time!

Do you have ideas for the front door color, or are you going to wait until you pick out the wood stain to figure out the front door color?
 
Once again, big thanks for all the replies and input! :) It is such a beast to make every little decision, and at this point, I kind of have "choice fatigue" (is that even a real thing?!)

Marisa, the front faces NW, so the front porch gets direct light for about 60 min a day in the summer and less and less as the fall and winter settle in. Most of the year we're talking less than an hour of direct light. The posts are cedar, and yes, they have a lot of color alread. Just looking at pictures on the internet, it seems most people stain the door and beams about the same color or a shade darker. Here are some examples I have found:
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Unfortunately, it is raining this week, so the painters may not get the exterior painted. I feel like I'll know more when I see it painted....

Just for an idea, I did some playing in photoshop with my image. It's by no means perfect, but here are a few examples of different colors on the posts with a darker door...

Oxford brown:

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Chestnut:

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Mahogony:

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I'm grateful for this new house, but honestly, I can't wait until it's over! Amidst the decisions for the house itself, I am also trying to pick out furniture, but that's a whole nother can of worms, lol.

I didn't do too shabby yesterday food-wise. Weights back to 176. I'm crawling, but that's okay as long as it's in the right direction!
 
I´d go with one of the warmer options, especially if you get so little sunlight there. I don´t know if it´s a thing in psychology but I´ve definitely HAD choice fatigue before!
 
Oh, if you're painting your door a rich, dark brown, then I go for dramatic, like Oxford brown or something similar, as long as it is lighter than the door. If the Oxford brown is too cool in color, maybe they could mix it with the Mahogany so it has a warm hue? I agree with LaMa if you were going to hang out in that space then having a really warm color is good, but it's a pass-through, so I would go dramatic. I would just put the paint samples up in that space to make sure first. And great you only have to do one coat, so whatever you do, the grain will show through some and be organic-looking to go with the stone element. Also look at the colors as far as your roof. I like the dark because the dark in the roof is a similarly dark element. If you had a light colored roof, then maybe I would go lighter. You maybe don't want one element that doesn't go with anything else, especially not columns, which are already so different than the other architectural elements.

With food setbacks, I sit down and analyze them and see what happened and how I can try something different next time. I like to think about how inventors go through hundreds of iterations before they find what works, so I can make some failed attempts and try to learn from them, too! What do you think it is about weekends that makes it so hard? Do you need to prepare a bunch of healthy food ahead of time for those days? That is what I do (or sometimes I make sure there are soups and things I made in batches and froze that I can defrost for weekends), otherwise there doesn't seem to be enough time to cook and do all the family things I have planned. Or I have really simple dishes like pan fried salmon and a veggie. Anyway, it seems like you are getting back on track!!!
 
Rich, dark brown would be my preference too. Building a house is very stressful & there are so many choices that you just never thought possible. I almost screamed at the electrician once when he asked me what colour power points I wanted. I had just had enough!
 
LaMaria said:
I´d go with one of the warmer options, especially if you get so little sunlight there. I don´t know if it´s a thing in psychology but I´ve definitely HAD choice fatigue before!
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I think it's a real thing, yes! It gets to the point where I'm just like, "To hell with it! I don't care!"


Marsia said:
Oh, if you're painting your door a rich, dark brown, then I go for dramatic, like Oxford brown or something similar, as long as it is lighter than the door. If the Oxford brown is too cool in color, maybe they could mix it with the Mahogany so it has a warm hue? I agree with LaMa if you were going to hang out in that space then having a really warm color is good, but it's a pass-through, so I would go dramatic. I would just put the paint samples up in that space to make sure first. And great you only have to do one coat, so whatever you do, the grain will show through some and be organic-looking to go with the stone element. Also look at the colors as far as your roof. I like the dark because the dark in the roof is a similarly dark element. If you had a light colored roof, then maybe I would go lighter. You maybe don't want one element that doesn't go with anything else, especially not columns, which are already so different than the other architectural elements.

With food setbacks, I sit down and analyze them and see what happened and how I can try something different next time. I like to think about how inventors go through hundreds of iterations before they find what works, so I can make some failed attempts and try to learn from them, too! What do you think it is about weekends that makes it so hard? Do you need to prepare a bunch of healthy food ahead of time for those days? That is what I do (or sometimes I make sure there are soups and things I made in batches and froze that I can defrost for weekends), otherwise there doesn't seem to be enough time to cook and do all the family things I have planned. Or I have really simple dishes like pan fried salmon and a veggie. Anyway, it seems like you are getting back on track!!!
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I really wish they had painted this week, but it's not happening due Hurricane Michael and the rains. At least then I could really start narrowing it down. For the time being, I'm just not entirely sure, although I am also leaning on the oxford and I agree warming it up a bit.

For weekends, I think it's because my husband is home and we like to watch TV at night and just chill. Although, I have made it through plenty of weekends before, so it's just an excuse in a way, if that makes sense. There's nothing inherent about a weekend day that makes me more hungry. It's all about the mind-set. I probably need to have healthy snacks on hand, for sure!


Emilyrose said:
God, all those houses (including yours) look amazing. Time to get me a vision board!
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Go for it! Vision boards are fun!

cate said:
Rich, dark brown would be my preference too. Building a house is very stressful & there are so many choices that you just never thought possible. I almost screamed at the electrician once when he asked me what colour power points I wanted. I had just had enough!
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Yeah, I'm thinking something more milk-chocolatey (or maybe that's my food brain, lol). The choices seem to never end! It's literally one thing after another or simultaneously.
 
I got to that point where I just didn't want to make choices anymore, and found that if I asked the contractor, "if this was your house, what would you do?" I got so much better advice than what they would have told me otherwise. I also went to a wonderful paint shop where if I walked in with an example picture and my samples of flooring, etc., they picked out the perfect paint with me. I really lucked out with that because the paint was maddingly hard otherwise. It looks one way on the sample, another way on a little swatch on the wall, and another way with a big wall of it painted, and some paint just doesn't look good in some rooms of the house, but it does in others. And then outdoor paint needs to be way darker for it to register as anything but pastel. When I got to that point, I was ready to pull my hair out. You should see the number of little paint sample jars I stacked up before I found good help! Anyway, good luck with your milk-chocolatey colors! I think your house looks amazing and you are doing great!!
 
Petal001 said:
When I build my next house I'm going to employ you ladies to design it for me !
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I actually love house design. I'll be there with my sketchup drawings and color swatches!
 
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