Hi 2Find! Thanks for your cohesive little selection of images. I will replace the lights for sure (though I have a pet peeve re those lights where the bulb is visible as am quite light-sensitive, preferring diffuse light). There is no furniture in the room, we aren't living there till the reno-extension is done as it won't have a kitchen. I would like to keep a muted pastel colour scheme throughout the entire house. Kind of a nod to the 30's. Sorry, but I can't do brown tile, it's a visceral thing! Cheers for the lovely photos siriuskey (lovely star system). Very nice and I probably will go for a pretty simple 30's weatherboard cape cod type theme. The house is a raw looking 'ranch' style from the US, lucky we have so much lovely British weatherboard culture to draw from. I adore that hallway!

You have quite a few option's but budget will decide the option's. You could render and paint the front wall's of both bedroom's a charcoal like the garage door's and sandstone clad the garage area's. You could render and paint the existing facade and use a charcoal brick on the new upper area with render again on the new lower wall. You can get bricks painted to match the existing. They are a tad expensive but maybe the only option. The problem I personally have with render is that it can end up bland. This is due to majority take the easy way out with deciding colour's and just paint it all the same colour. Using a couple different colours and using them as feature walls with other materials can look superb. The original brick looks like a great coloured brick but the issue is theres just too much brickwork so a bit of render or even some painted walls can really look great. Painting isn't expensive and the new paints are very good. The key is getting a quality render job first and not overdoing the amount of area's rendered.

in that case I would stick with the monument. However I must admit that I do love that colour and we are having it on our new build. I like it because it has the richness of a darker contrast without the problem of black fading and looking faded whereas monument can experience a degree of fading over time and it would not be as obvious.

Hi Rekiah, we investigated partial stone facades when we were building, and my advice is do not skimp on the quality and get someone experienced to install. This does mean it may not be as inexpensive as some other options, however. Aesthetics are such a personal thing. I, like CP, and as much as I like the look in general, would update other areas first. I’d also be very careful regarding the colour and maybe look at alternative patterning. Search in Houzz photos: red brick and stonework, filter for exteriors. I also found searching the house sale sites, extremely time consuming, but useful. Imports to compare oranges with oranges though, and not oranges with my ideal 🙂. Good luck and do let us know what you decided