It's a cute shed. It would help to see a picture of your home and where it's going to set Lukki. I'm just not visioning the layout without a visual to go on.
I can say that we recently had a barn style shed built on our lot and we painted it tradition barn red with white trim. Had we gone with a style like yours I'd have wanted it painted to match the house.
Edited so it made sense, as I wrote this while half asleep last night.

If you paint it to match your house, it will tend to blend into the overall buildingscape.

If you paint it a very different color, it will become a focal point in your yard.

I would go with option 2, using the colors you plan to use on the house. That will also give you a preview of how they'll look, on something that's a lot easier to repaint than a whole house.

I am distracted by the setting of the photo; I understand it isn't your yard, but I keep trying to make your questions relate to the picture (like, rustic wooded with chain link?). Can you post a photo of your yard where you're going to put it?

How is your garage painted, since it is 6 ft away. Did I miss that?

I vote option 2, and apple green! Cute shed.

My3dogs ... So pretty!

I'd keep it the same as the house. I think if you go different from the house, you have to go WAY different, like Easter egg different. Otherwise, I think it will look out of place and like you had to buy it in those colors. Perhaps in the future you can paint both it and the house in your earthy colors.

my3dogs, swooning over your pic. I remember a winter pic of it as well and swooned over it too.

another vote to paint it same as the house.... 6 ft is very close to the garage and 10x12 is pretty big! I wouldn't want it standing out... plant plants around it to pretty it up!

We have that shed - it used to be red with white shutters. Our house is white with black shutters. We live on a heavily wooded lot and wanted it to blend in with the woods. We chose: http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/products/catalog/woodscapes-exterior-acrylic-solid-color-house-stain/?selectedColorURN=urn:stain-color:SW3002. We stained it all the same color including the shutters.
This is going to sound funny, but we picked that color based on the Little Tikes mailboxes. There are black ones, green ones, and a kind of tan, taupe color. That taupe color is the one where you don't really notice the mailbox. That was the look we were going for.

Cute shed, but I bet your house is nicer. So I'd paint the shed the same color as the house rather than have the shed turn into a focal point.

Same color as the house...I think it will be too jarring if you do a different color, especially since it is close to the garage.

My3dogs......your shed looks like a charming little guest cottage!

Option 1.

We put a black metal haybasket-type planter under our shed window (no shutter, natural cedar siding) and it was so cute, lined with cocoa mat. First year I planted real plants, thereafter I put in artificial plants and changed it out with the seasons. (it was way back from the house so I tended not to water them...so sad...)

Duh - I have a bad cold and my brain is clogged up. I MIS-READ option 2. I would paint the SHED and its TRIM as your house is, and paint ONLY the shed's shutters and doors the new color you choose for the house shutters and doors. So the shed is a mini-version of the house colors. That is how my shed and my sister's shed is done.

Joanie, I had plans to turn it into a guest cottage, as it has a large window overlooking the river that forms my property line. But, a young carpenter friend is living here in his basement man cave, and all that he doesn't have down there is packed in the shed and the loft over my garage. He helps me a lot around the house, and the dogs adore him, so it's a nice trade-off. I had dreams of putting him in the shed, but it would be tough in the winter, despite it having electricity. :-)

Thank you all for the feed back! I am drooling over your shed My3 dogs! That is beyond adorable! I really really want a shed with personality, I don't know why that is so important to me, but it is!

Bpathome, that is such a whimsical idea! Maybe I can substitute the box with something like that too.

I have to be honest, since the back isn't landscaped (yet) and the house is in need of a good power wash, which I'm getting a quote for now, I am pretty shy about posting pics...but here it goes!

This is the back of the house, the shed will go behind the garage to the left

and this is the space for it from a different angle, you can see the road and walking path in the background,

and this is another angle

These pictures are of our neighbors sheds and gives a visual of what we want to do though the second one is not set up in the same way as we want ours to be

As you can see, his door faces the yard where ours will face the deck.

Also, just to help you visualize, even though the back is more or less level, from the front, we live on a hill.

people will be able to see the back and side of the shed as they come around the curve, but not from the front. My common sense says match the house too, so I guess I better start looking for shutters so it will have at least some punch of color!

We have a shed at our vacation house. It is really hidden at the back of the property and had been neglected. I painted the shutters and plan on painting the door and adding plants to the window boxes this year. Because the shed is so far from our house I chose colors that the PO's had stored in the basement (having already changed the colors on our house doors).

Thanks for the pictures Lukki. With it that close to your home, I'd most definitely paint it to match your home.
Or, another thought.... Paint it black with beige shutters or just the opposite of your home's colors just for fun.

We painted our out buildings to match the house...all except the barn of course which we kept barn red...what else?

I'd vote for it to match. :)

Judtgotabme, I love red barns, big or small. Originally that is what we wanted, but we decided to go with a style that....you got it! Matched our house instead. lol The neighbor has a dutch colonial, which I wish we had now because then the barn would have been an option.

Bonnie, that shed is adorable, I love the shutter color. Bet it will be real sweat when it is finished.

thank you again for all the feedback and sharing. I'm resolved to stick with the plan and paint it like the house. Think I will start looking for shutters and a cute something to use as a box. They called yesterday and are going to build it a week from Saturday! I know it is just a shed but I am really excited!

I'd be excited, too! Do they build it right there on site?

I just Googled garden sheds, and found some great ones that may give you ideas of how to add charm to yours. You can barely see it in these pictures, but mine has a weather vane on the peak of the main roof. It's a gold colored horse. I also made curtains for mine, so people couldn't see what's inside.

Lots of ideas here!

Yep! It only takes them a day to do, which is crazy considering they build it from scratch. Of course the window and gable vents are precut into the siding, but other than that it isn't prefab...we got the dimensional shingles and the ridge vent to match our house too.

I could see faintly the weather vane on yours after I opened up the pic, pretty cute, but the architecture of yours has the cute factor going for it too! I wish this shed was going to be for something more glamorous than lawn mowers and the snow blower. If it were say an art studio, I could really have some fun with the inside too. Some of the ones on Pinterest are so sweet looking.

A white house with a red barn is classic.
I know it's a small shed, but it would look whimsical!

Lukki, I see the barn style sheds all over Omaha. They are the most popular style there. With the added lofts you can really store so much in them.
We live in the country a little ways north of Omaha and there are so few old red barns left I just had to have one.
Here's a picture of ours, taken from the edge of the driveway. It's way brighter than expected so we're going to tone it down when we get a chance. It's 12' x 16' with two 6' x 12' foot lofts. Once we get a garage built in front of it, we'll add electricity and I'll turn the shed into a studio/get-away for me.

My vote is for paint like the house. I love sheds! Here's just a corner of mine. It's the same colors as the house..

I'm so sorry this is sideways.

ok Magda where the heck were you when we needed you!!! lol.

Justgotabme, Now I'm really having barn envy!!!! I would love to have a studio to putter with my crafts in. It has been a long time since, but I love painting greenware, so I'd keep my molds and a kiln in it and go hog wild. Your setting is beautiful. We moved to where we are from S California about 10 years ago and I am still enjoying our little views of greenery, it's what I would describe as semi rural but we would love to be somewhere that is even a little less busy. I can see the boat tucked behind it, now that is the life!

Ours is a Tuff Shed which we got through HoDe. I highly recommend them.
Here's some pictures of the build. It comes paneled. The only things they really "build" on sight are the roof and the loft. We added the second loft later as I couldn't stand all that wasted space.
These two young men, brothers, were so quick they had two sides up while I ran in to get my camera.
I added a picture at the end so you could see it's placement compared to the house. It sets back a good fifty sixty feet.

Oops, I was posting all the photos and missed your last comment.
Yes, that's our boat. We are looking at 26 foot tri-toons now. I would love it to be a party boat, but the one we are looking at is a combo lounge with fishing seats too. It has a place for a dressing room which we'll probably add a porta potty in. I'd rather wait until we have the garage built, but hubby is getting antsy to get it sooner. I want to get rid of the smaller boat you see beside the shed, but he wants to to keep it too. I think he wants to get his Mom out on the boat and thinks the tri-toon would be easier for her, though he did get both his folks, his Dad passed away a year ago, onto the little boat summer before last. They always had boats when they were younger so I'm glad we got it over there before he passed.

OMG that's what we got too! I'm really glad to hear that you had a good experience. I was a little worried going through Home Depot, but they were offering such a great deal, it was just too hard to pass up. Tuff Shed has a local warehouse center located by one of my clients, so I did some hard comparisons between the warehouse's retail product and the one they offer through Home Depot. The warehouse told me that the Tuff Sheds sold at Home Depot are made of the exact same materials and by the same crew as the regular warehouse sheds. The warehouse sheds come with some slight differences like added radiant protection from the sun but other than that, the only real difference is that Home Depot didn't want to offer the stronger warranties that they offer on theirs, but the difference in price was almost double.

Yep, thats the barn we looked at, only in the 10x12. We really loved how open it was, it literally felt larger than the ranch style in the same size. In order to get an open feel in the ranch we opted for the 12/6 pitched roof and then we got the upgraded eaves so it would match the house. At first we were going to get the loft, but I saw a ranch style online with one built in and half of it wasn't really functional because of the roof. After that, we decided to change it to two 16" shelves along the back wall instead.

So I see you got several windows! I love that! it looks so nice! My husband didn't want any windows but I couldn't resist having at least one. I really wanted to add transom windows to the doors, but we were already over budget. The ramp is what really killed us, but we had to have it for the riding mower. So did you paint or did they? And where is your metal foundation? I just know we will end up having to add some of the pavers under ours, the ground isn't too wonky, but it's still is off a tad. I figure we can build up the landscape around it afterwards. The guy told us to put pea gravel and limestone under it and critters will avoid it like the plague so we're doing that this weekend.

Wow, you sure have a nice spot, very pretty, your house looks so majestic sitting there. I think we would have set ours back on our lot some too if we weren't storing yard and snow stuff in it. Way in the back by the property line we have another old shed, but its in terrible shape and wasn't worth restoring. It's mini barn we plan on tearing down this summer.

I'm so tickled you had pictures! And thanks so much for posting them! That sounds like so much fun with the boats. When we lived in Louisiana, we lived on the river and boated all the time. Our neighbor even had a cool houseboat. Michigan is the state of lakes, they are everywhere so boating is a popular pass time for a lot of folks here.

Oh gosh, you laid concrete! Duh! That's why you don't have the metal foundation! Sorry, didn't see that the first time I looked!

There's a Tuff Shed warehouse in Omaha too. We've looked at them before and they are much more expensive. The guy we talked to that works exclusively for Tuff Shed at HoDe is named Sonny. He is so nice. He even came to our home when were thinking of them building our garage. The size we want is larger than they normally build so it was higher than we expected which made us chose to build the shed first. We're still not sure who will build the garage as we are hoping for one built with panels so it won't take too long to build. My dream would be to build one with an apartment above that our son and grandson could live in and when son is finished with college and can afford to build his own home then that would be my studio and a guest house for when our daughter and family come. Our son in law is highly allergic to cats and we have four long haired cats.
Tuff Shed has a lot of great addons. We wanted transom windows over the door, but unless we put the door on the end, which I didn't want because I feel it wouldn't allow as much room for easy access to things stored in there, it wouldn't work. That still doesn't make since because we added 8 foot high walls, but oh well. I'm just so happy to have it.
We had the concrete pad laid when the basement was poured over thirteen years ago! It took me eleven years to convince hubby it was time to get the shed, which was last fall. The construction of our home took 18 months from ground breaking to moving in since we did much of the work. Sadly it's still far from finished.
It was my idea and hubby did the work of putting large patio blocks at the front by the door. If we do build a loft apartment over the garage (big time dreaming there) then we might eventually use the shed for our rider and all the other lawn stuff we have in the shed so that should work easy enough to get them in and out. We'll have to terrace the area between the shed and the garage since the later will be on higher ground.

Oh hubby's home. I'll be back to finish reading and replying.

I'm not sure why hubby originally decided to put the shed that far back, but it's a good thing he did. because of our plan to build a garage now.
We do plan on landscaping around the shed when we get a chance so that we don't have to mow up too close to it. We had no sign at all of critters/mice getting inside which I was very pleased about. They have invaded our garage the last two years no matter how many cotton balls of Peppermint oil we put in there. That works for our basement, but not the garage. I think it's that the last couple years we've stored a small trash can in there so we don't have to walk outside to take out the trash. So mad we didn't think about that earlier.
Thank you for the complement on our home. We have so much work left to finish it. Someday I hope to gave gingerbread in the gables, but for now it will do.
Too bad you can't save your old barn style shed. If the frame is still in good shape it might be worth it to have your studio. Well if you could get electricity to it.

Justgotabme, nice new shed there. It is interesting that the wall sill plates seem to be sitting directly on the concrete slab even where the slab is level with the ground. The LP Smartside panel siding is pretty much touching the ground. One side appears to not even be hanging over the edge of the concrete pad. Do you know if the installer used some special flashing or seal to keep water out from coming in under the wall plates? I am looking at building a shed on a similarly positioned concrete pad.

hillel_s, the concrete pad is all above grade, meaning we didn't dig out any dirt before having it laid. In fact we had it leveled, set frames on top after it had time to settle well and then had the concrete poured.
The shed was built this past fall. We had absolutely no water leaks at all this winter or rainy spring. The land in front of the shed has a bit of a valley in order to keep the water away from the shed in case of heavy rains or sudden snow melts.
I did look through the photos closer (zooming in on the full size versions I have on my computer) and did not see anything installed between the concrete and the panels so I called my hubby and he said the plate was treated wood.
I hope this helps.