Absolutely go with the woodland grey on the gutters and fascia boards, white on the eaves only, saves a whole lot of cutting in and hides the gutter slope required for drainage. Paint the other garage door, and a new 'retro' style street lamp light fitting to illuminate your house number. Paint the house number a half or quarter shade of the woodland grey to make it easier to read, but keep it in the same colour family. Finally, a quick pressure wash of the driveway and your house will look a million bucks. For the back, keep with the woodland grey for the pergola as well, but introduce some crisp white into some occasional furniture pieces, and some soft foliage to brighten the area.

I would definitely ditch the brown marble and go similar to the window sill. It is just beautiful. It looks like Carerra but you can find similar tiles that are from Chinese quarries. Marry it with white paint and add white and grey tones to your accessories. You could accent it with any color as it is a neutral. Brown dates very quickly where is white marble is timeless and classy. Good luck!!

We recently renovated my son's kitchen/ family room in a weekend. His oven needed replacing so it was a good opportunity to 'fix' it all. We rang around and got quotes on having the cupboard doors professionally painted but it was way too expensive so we took the pine laminate cupboard doors off and painted with a white laminate paint and replaced all the timber handles with chrome ones. We retiled with 600x 300 white marble look tiles (leftovers from our bathroom) (cut the old tiles out and re-sheeted the walls so we had a good surface to tile on) and repainted ceilings and walls. Replaced a dark timber venetian blind with a see through 'sun-out' blind and painted all the architraves white (previously mission brown). A new mixer tap replaced very ancient 'double' taps. We were totally shattered at the end of the weekend, but the kitchen looks a million dollars and the room looks twice the size now the pine and mission brown have gone. We are pretty chuffed with the result achieved by us unprofessionals!

I very successfully repainted every surface in my kitchen with great results. I used a product called ESP and after application ( following instructions) I painted over cupboards and bench tops in oil based enamel paint. I let it dry for 24 hours and after a very light sand gave it another coat. After another 24 hours and another light sand I gave it a final coat. It looked fantastic...what was a disgusting all laminex mustard coloured kitchen became white with green plants. I had decided that if the bench tops didn't work I would replace them . Using boards they were completely fine. HINTS> Take doors and cupboard handles off before you paint and replace door handles later. Wooden knobs etc look great with white. Plan to stay completely out of kitchen for at least four days. Don't skimp on paint. Best quality and test the colour. I used satin but could have used gloss. Worth a try.