Mediterranean/Spanish style home

We decided to build a Mediterranean/Spanish style home. We live in the desert and it wouldn't make much sense to build a New England colonial or Log cabin after all. That was the easy part.

There was much discussion and debate about how many stories (one verses two), the bedroom placement (split or all on one side) and great room verses traditional rooms. Until my husband, Brian threw up his hands in surrender, if we could just agree on something we could start the close of Escrow. When the dust settled we finally agreed on a split bedroom ranch with a great room.

So the plan is set. Now we need to decide on exterior colors. We are going the traditional Mediterranean/Spanish route with bright tiled roof and light colored stucco house. We would love to do a white house and red roof but we need to come up with a variation being that we live where it virtually never rains. No seriously it never rains. It is extremely dusty and I don't want the maintenance that type of color scheme will require.