Exterior Bedroom Door Plan: A Trellis Above The Door

When I left you yesterday, the stone on this side looked like this…

Here’s how it turned out with the mortar (plus some reworking of those bottom two stones)…

At some point, I also had ChatGPT do this mockup. It was better, but that trellis (or is that a pergola?) is way too tall. I don’t have enough space for that. Plus, it made edits to the doorway. At the time, I didn’t think my doorway could ever look that clean and nice because of the Hardie trim. See how it has trim over the door? My door didn’t have that. That’s one reason I’ve hated that Hardie trim on the door from the beginning.

But I was curious to see how it would look with the new faux stone replacing the Hardie trim. So I did a little editing using my own photo editing program on the picture above to cover the right side of the door with the stone. This is just a photo edit, so this isn’t exactly how the finished stone will look on the right side, but it’s close enough. I also edited the stone above the door to make it look more like I hope it will turn out once I’m finished.

And then I asked ChatGPT to add a small white trellis above the door. This time, I provided a picture of the trellis I wanted rather than leaving ChatGPT to its own devices to create a trellis out if its own “imagination”. I have no idea why it didn’t center the trellis on the door, or why it created more space above the door than what is actually there, but it still gives us a good idea of what this door would look like with a small white trellis.

I think that is PERFECT! Well, the idea is perfect. 😀 I would, of course, center it and move it up so that it fits just over the stones above the door. And since there’s very little space there, those stones above the door wouldn’t show at all with a trellis there. But isn’t that cute?

I also think it’s perfect because my plan for a very long time now has been to build a trellis above the breakfast room windows. And y’all know how I love continuity. I think it would be beautiful to have trellises in those two areas.

Now that just leaves me with one more question. How in the world do I bring the dark blue of the shutters onto this end of the house? The only thing I can think of is to add large dark blue planters (once I get the steps built and get to the landscaping). But if you have other ideas, I’d love to hear them!