My house was definitely designed to be a colonial style home.
The outside is bright orange with brown trim. The inside of the house has wallpaper on top and wood on the bottom. The ceiling is wood and the carpet is a shaggy brown. The previous homeowner additionally added a woodstove in the middle of the living room. The wood stove even had a brick pad it sat on and it was property vented to the roof. The first thing I did was remove all traces of the older style. I am right now working with painters to get the exterior white and grey. Inside I removed the wallpaper and sanded the wood and painted white. The ceiling got to stay, but the floors are now grey tile. Removing the heating system was the worst though. That wood stove was so heavy and it being property vented posed some challenges. I had to break the brick pad, detach the piping from the heater, and then patch my ceiling. Then I had to remove the protrusion from my roof and hire roofers to make sure there were no leaks. Want to know the worst part? The woodstove was totally clean inside. The homeowner didn’t even use it as a heating system! I could have been used to just heating the living room in the winter. Nope, the homeowner definitely just added it like a decorative piece. Why vent it through the ceiling and to the roof though? It must have cost a fortune and it wasn’t even used as a heater!