House exterior: What's Your Inspiration?

Whether you're building or not, chances are you have a "favorite house".  Perhaps it was featured in a magazine long ago, or it's a place you pass by everyday in your town.  I'm no exception, and I've always had a favorite house.  This is mine, and it's located in a small town up north - every time I visit up there, I always pass by and admire it's simplistic charm, so naturally it was my starting point of inspiration:

But then initial inspiration becomes tricky, because I also really love houses like this (which HOA will prevent me from doing, sigh):

and this (again, a little much for HOA):

but there is a common theme:  They are white.  They are simplistic in shape.  They have stark contrast in lines and coloring.

"What style are you going for?"  my friends and family will ask...   I never knew what to say until my friend put it pretty succinctly, so I stay with this:  Organic Modern with an Italianate/Spanish mission architectural drive.  I've no idea what that will really mean for the house yet, but it basically sums up the architectural direction to a point, and the feel of the interior I'll lean towards when making design choices.

Now, how all those pieces will fall together so as not to create a mish-mash of conflicting and tacky design is another story.  For now, however, with no other architectural details known other than white brick, the house is shaping up to look like this:

It's a little hard to depict our boomerang-shaped house on a 1-dimensional piece of paper, but that's the basic look.