Three directions alive. Every photo is now Joe's own, from his local Before-And-Afters and Finished Work folders — nothing scraped, nothing with his logo burned in, phone chrome and MLS watermarks cropped out.
The sage is genuinely his. It fails as an accent on near-black because it is low-chroma and mid-luminance — nothing to push against. It is a field colour. The navy is the more promising fix, as a ground.