Shea, keeping the brick is the best defense for hiding the tannin stains a bit. If you paint the brick are you looking for a color that would help with that camouflage or are you looking to go light and are willing to do the maintenance for keeping it nice looking?

Or, can you hook your sprinklers up to city water? Is that tannin from well water sprinklers?

We are on city water but there might have been a time when it was well water since it was built in 71. The house doesn't have gutters or landscaping, so we were hoping once it gets painted, we will put up gutters and landscaping which should help with this staining on the bottom. We were thinking of either a darker color that hides that kind of thing, or a lighter color and see how it goes if we need to maintain that. The neighborhood is all custom 70's homes and about half of them have painted their brick and the others left it but we don't have any association so free to do what we want.

Oh, so you have lots of options. I may be odd man out here but in this instance I would not feel inclined to pay homage to the nod towards Tudor and would eliminate the cross wood trim pieces.

I can see taking down the trim, but I wouldn't paint the brick and opt to work around it instead.

Yes, I would acid wash that brick to remove the tannin and see what it looked like clean before deciding.

Does anyone in your neighborhood have the bump outs?

I like the shake on the upper bumpouts (not sure what it's called) on the first picture I posted , and here.

Do you like the shake up there in the pictures above? I love it! Love the trim colors, shake color and that green shade near the windows on the last photo. You could keep your brick with that setup.

I love that! Thought about including cedar somewhere. I like the metal roof on bump out too that looks pretty

Just getting rid of the dark trim will make a huge difference. Here are a few different colors that are meant to be shake.

No paint brick - that would be putting an inferior finish over a quality item. Its a nice variegated brick, not the heavy orange type that some people complain about. An argument might be made for applying a masonry stain to tone down a color... not that it needs it... but to put an opaque high maintenance plastic coating (eg acyrlic) isnt a good idea for the long term.

I wholeheartedly agree w/above suggestions to remove the fake tudor and rethink those spaces under the eaves and around the windows- even just simple paint in a well-chosen brown that bridges the brick and roof colors would be a big improvement. Sometimes less is more, and I would argue that a handsome house in natural brick or stone and muted nature-colors is often the most beautiful house on the block. Then, you could put your $ and effort into some really lovely landscaping & perhaps pillars but I wouldnt get carried away with reinventing the architecutral elements - its very nice & balanced as is.

Is that the view from the side? Looks like the street is off to the left?

The house is on a big corner lot and is very noticeable with the elevation changes when driving down the street. Have not even been here a year and spent the first 6 months remodeling the inside. Want to get rid of the big slab porch in front and add steps or something. Was thinking of adding a gable over that porch area too but don't want to change up the architecture too much. Just modernize it and get rid of the orange hue

Adjusted front porch and showing different colors for upper. Not sure I have the porch height right...like it but something is not right. You need a professional.

Yes something like that! Amazing how it changes the look and brightens things up. What program are you using to do this?

I just use photobucket for effects and Microsoft Paint for the basics.