Keep the faux timber details on your home they add interest and texture. Here are some homes with stone that is similar to yours. I think your home could benefit from contrasting paint trim around the windows & perhaps actual wood for the 'timbers' on your stucco. Any paint colors should be pulled from the colors in your stone except for the bronze for the windows. I think your home could look much better with upgraded garage doors like you see below.

B F I want to get some greige samples, I think it'd be the right tone, I thought about red too but I worry the red might make that weird pink/muave color pop more. I'd love to make it mid century modern looking, we're keeping the blue tub in one of the spare bathrooms and I'll modernize it with tile and vanity and we're also keeping the brass kitchen cabinet pulls I just gotta put in some elbow grease to get them looking good again. Yes, single story brick ranch homes are evvvverywhere, also in the 90s they did a lot of big boxy 2 story brick houses in red brick or white. For some reason Houston is especially strange, I grew up in Austin but some house designers in the 80's got very... creative. there's quite a few houses with an attached garage that doesn't face the street they face the house and from the front there's literally no visible windows or doors, it's so odd. My neighborhood is a hodgepodge, some classic 60s homes with those awnings above the windows and one of the neighbors across from me has a huge knock off tudor looking home from the 80s with amber stained glass windows.

Paint is made up of several colors. Yes, there is black, but there are also other colors. Most blacks have either blue or red mixed in, but occasionally violet and green are used. Below is Benjamin Moore's palette of blacks, and I have marked some with their particular hue. Some of these seem obviously gray or brown, but I'm thinking that they are all dark enough to work as "black" contrast. I think you could use a warmer black with the brown of your shingles. But, you could also contrast the warm orange-brown of the shingles with a blue black. I suggest you upload your photo HERE (scroll down) and try on different blacks. Then, when you have narrowed your preferences, you might buy a sample or two to try out before you make up your mind. Sometimes the direction a building faces or the surrounding landscape can affect how a color looks. Color can also look different at different times of the day.

I do love the olive theme, however, the brick has more blue/gray rather than green, for some reason the photos do not capture this. I initially wanted green siding but when I got the samples they clashed too much with the brick, which is why i moved toward neutral grays. I love the idea of taking the shutters off and it does look a lot cleaner!!! I'll just need to be brave and take the off now before the painters come so I can get used to it. Thank you guys so much for your help, I definitely have more clarity now.