Brick and stone

So I've been doing some research on brick colors. We know that we like the reddish tones more than others, and we especially don't like the very light brick. I did some searching online and came to some websites that helped, that show the brick color, and when clicked, show a house with that brick. We also drove around and took some pictures of houses whose brick we liked. In the end, we liked this house's brick the most!

What do you think - do you like this color??

We are also trying to decide about whether or not we want to use any stone. Stone is A LOT more expensive than brick. Check out the stone to the left! Beautiful, I know... But expensive.

Whereas, the house above, if you see, above the windows there is a white arch, that is made from limestone. We've decided we want to do the same thing, that way the house has stone but it's not too costly.

Our builder also suggested having the front door be surrounded by cultured stone. Cultured stone is basically fake stone, so it's a lot cheaper, but still looks pretty nice. It comes in a lot of different shapes and colors, but we haven't yet decided exactly what we want. We are going to do like the picture to the left with cultured stone around the front door, but we need help choosing a style!

Also, we decided to have a boxed window in the dining room, which would be the front of the house. Unlike the bay window, it doesn't come out as much so it's cheaper, but it still gives the house some character from the outside.