A few comments. I know I'm diverging from your original question, so forgive me. We have a forward facing garage door, but we designed the front facade so the front porch is most prominent and the garage recedes. In your case, it's almost hard to find the front door. If there is any way to make the front door more prominent, I think it would be a good thing. Personally I'm not a fan of the brick/stone waterline on houses, esp on ranches as to me they only cut the facade even more making the home look squatter. So you might want to try an elevation without it, just for fun. Maybe stoning or bricking the whole gable instead of just a water line. If you do choose to go with it, then pick the brick/stone first and pull the rest of the colors for the house from there. I'm in NE and we selected NE fieldstone for our front facade as it looked appropriate to our area and blended with the stone we pulled out of our foundation which was used in our landscaping. I'm not sure what stone would be native to your area, but you might consider letting that be your guide. I don't think the inside and outside have to color coordinate, so I'd be less concerned about that. If you haven't gone to houzz.com, you might and search on stone or brick exteriors. I'm sure you'll find some non-beige inspirations there. I'm attaching a picture of our front facade so you can see how our wall colors blend with our stone, and our front facing garage. (The house has since been finished, but this pic seems to show the colors best.)

The house is white. We will be painting the house within several months. Deciding on the roof color will determine if we choose a new color for the house. I wish there were a 'greige' roof color.

I've got chips of the colors suggested and they do look very harmonious- My painter is picking up a sample of peace yellow for us to try and I can't wait to check it all out together. I'd like to choose a dark color for the foundation, and possibly an accent. Would a dark gray make sense? I'm drawn to deep plum, but not sure my husband would agree. Thanks again for your feedback :)

I’m planning on changing the front door color — considering coral or aqua (something bright). The thing that’s tripping me up is the shutter colors. I think I could do the blue-Gray or a dark blue with a coral door,but what do I do with the shutters? Just take them down?