Painting the brick is not the first thing I'd think of here. A change of landscaping would be. Unless you live in the SW, cacti are not really inviting or at home. I would get a local nursery to draw up a planting plan that you could implement over time. The big bush on the left side needs to go and you need to save up for the drive. One possibility is to break it out and install a pea gravel drive and patio to unify the front.

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I would paint the garage siding and fascia a grayish brown to match the roof, along with that awkward corner piece sticking up between the house and garage. Would tie in better with the roofline.

What function do the four black shutters provide? Are they outside house? Are there windows behind the shutters? Removing them would be a good idea, I think.

Can you paint the siding instead of the brick? They don't really go together. I think one of them needs to be changed. Not desperately--it's not THAT bad.

Landscaping would help quite a bit. I don't mind the baby cactus garden, but the white rock stuff on the other side should go. Alllll the white rocks should be removed. Don't pull out the big bush until you have a plan. Sometimes an established plant can nicely anchor a new landscaping scheme. Pruning may of course be in order.

There is a helpful landscape design forum here. Blunt, but helpful. :)

I don't see any shutters, threers, just narrow modern windows.

I agree that the brick is pretty neutral, but the siding and garage door aren't doing it any favors -- I'd take the siding a few shades darker in the tones of the brick, and the garage door lighter to make it disappear as much as possible. Maybe darker trim. Then a brighter front door color, better landscaping, and make your peace with what's left. It's modern, not a bungalow or whatever.

Mock-up in a minute.

What are those black oblong things, a pair on the garage and a pair near the cactus?

They look very imposing to me and not in a good way.

Here are some ideas. Photos were hard to handle smoothly.

You could throw $100,000 at renovations and the house would still look weird. So, don't fight the weird, capitalize on it. Paint the brick to match the shingles, stain the driveway dark, make it all blend together, so that from the street, your interest is drawn to the shapes and angles, not the odd differences in color and texture. Then buy trees and shrubs, big ones, as big as you can afford, and plant them out front.

What ACM did to the garage is a clever disguise for the gable treatment, which in the before pictures sticks out like a sore thumb. Talk about most bang for your buck!

New landscaping is what’s needed more than anything else.