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Your flooring (texture and coloring) is very well done! That's what I imagine well-worn wood in those areas would look like. The light touch of gray adds so much realism and depth. Did you rub it on with your finger tip or use some other method?
With your windows, try using a small steel ruler across the sill to insure they are both square and in line with each other. The framing (above and below) may not be 100% square to the studs, but that won't show after the siding is added. However, if one of the widows is out of whack, it'll be visible from the outside and automatically call attention to itself.
If I could point out one thing, the signs on the front wall really jump out because of the white edges. The thickness of them also looks out of scale, but that's mostly due to the edges. If possible, use a tiny brush and hit the edges with a little A/I to dull down the stark white.
When I add signs, I almost always thin them out a bit by sanding the back of the paper with an emery board or fine sand paper before cutting them out. I'll compare the paper thickness to a piece of a scale 1x4 to get an idea of where I'm at. How thick would those signs be in real life--maybe 1/16" or 1/32" at best? While it's not absolutely necessary get signs down to scale thickness, substantially thinning them will help them blend into the overall scene rather than catch the viewer's eye.
Here's an auction for 2 really small squares on eBay for $15 (free shipping, too!)
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Well I think I learned something here. My thinking that a sign would have been mounted to a piece of board, which I did, and by its self. Being more focused and conscious of scale and not mindlessly blowing through it.
If you want to go with a mounted sign on a board, what would probably work best is to have enough of the wood showing around the edges. To take it a bit further: you could use a couple pieces of wood and scribe through the paper lightly to illustrate where the boards are underneath.
The only example I have is on a billboard I made...yeah a lot larger than the signs on the shed, but it kinda gives you an idea of what I mean.
Geezerbill