apply colonial architectural style to this sketch emphasize strict formal symmetry organized around a central axis with a paneled front door framed by pilasters and a modest pediment use brick or painted wood clapboard in restrained earth tones windows should be evenly distributed double hung sash with divided lights and shutters a moderately pitched side gable or hipped roof with end chimneys anchors the composition the overall character should feel dignified ordered and rooted in the formal european classicism that shaped 17th and 18th century american domestic life render in clean natural daylight
