Existing house:

Front elevation:

Side elevation: (the side where the existing brick will be most visible)

And the colours we were considering:

Against the stone at the front of the house

Against the yellow brick on the side

Thanks! The roof colour hasn't been chosen yet, and it will be chosen after our siding colour. Wondering where you see brown and gray? There are two blues and a white... guess that's what you meant about colour being unreliable in online photos... :D

I am saying this with complete gentleness and sympathy, lol....

With so many different materials and colors already present, would you consider maybe trying to blend the siding with the stone and brick? I know y'all like the blue (I love the blues you picked!), but I don't think adding more color to an already highly-textured house is going to work well. :-(

I know - I think Hardie's Autumn Tan works well with the yellow brick, but it's really not what we want... sigh.

Too much going on material and color wise. Going to look like who did it and ran, just my .02........

Millworkman - any suggestions on how to fix that?

Painting the brick might help (although I generally dislike painted brick and appreciate that you might be attached to you Chicago yellow brick as so many are!); you could eliminate either the shingles or the Board and batten in the gables (choose one, not two). You might get away w/the darker of the two blues (that which I earlier thought was brown -- timberbark in the Hardie line, I think?)

just some thoughts, and they might not work for you at all. At any rate, none of us have any idea what the rest of the neighborhood looks like and how yours will fit into that scheme. I hope you will share what your final decision. Good luck!

I'm not especially attached to the yellow brick, but we're trying not to incur extra costs by re-cladding a perfectly good first storey. The mortar and bricks are in good shape, according to an inspection we had, so why pay more $$ for stucco or more Hardie? That's our thought process, anyhow.

Was not suggesting you clad the brick at all -- just paint it, which is relatively cheap. My other suggestion was to eliminate one of the siding choices on the front (Thereby saving some $). In so much as I can see the right colors better on my monitor and it appears that you like blue, my opinion was that w/the absence of the yellow brick you the darker of the blues would work w/the stone. My comment about the timber ark was related to the question you asked of me earlier when on my iPad it looked as though you had posted brown (timberbark), white, and gray -- thus illustrating the point I attempted to make earlier about the distortion of color in this medium. Again, good luck.

Got it! Thanks for taking the time to clarify. Yeah, that wasn't timber bark. It's evening blue. I'm also looking at Deep Ocean. I may look at the possibility of painting or staining the brick - that might be the best option.