Ah, so they are actually very similar! Yours will end up just as nice or better!! On my laptop the brick looks rather orange/salmon, so that affected my color suggestions. Hopefully you have the budget for, or ability to do some DIY, hardscape installation. I would work on a design for a paver re-do and possibly re-alignment of the front walk, including creating a front door patio/porch - and is there a driveway over to the left? That too, and you would want the walk to connect to it. Some of the embossed/colored concrete creations might be more affordable -- can even look just like the picture above if you want. Here are some door ideas: The gate over to the left also doesn't match the style of the house. If it were painted a darker, more neutral color -- either match whatever you choose for trim, or go with a neutral gray-wood color -- it would look better. If you do install a pergola over the front door, then eventually replace the gate with something that is more like the pergola design (straight lines, not curvy). If you have a college landscaping program nearby, that could be a budget option to get a planting and hardscape design from a student. I contacted one of the professors at ours, who sent a student my way & he had some great ideas.

Normally matching painting to siding is the way to go. But since you have dark brown brick there halfway up garage, in this case paint garage door to match brick/roof. Don't paint the brick. A bright front door as suggested would draw attention to that side of the house. Down the road, as budget allows expand garden beds on the right for the same reason. Here's a house with halfway up brick and darker garage doors. Note how landscaping in front pulls the eye away from garage: Also consider pergola across top of dark doors:

You can't paint the yellow, but you are willing to paint the brick? The brick is the best part of the house. The yellow is (kindly) horrible. Windows are white, paint all the yellow white. As for vertical siding, a no on that, do it the same horizontal as the rest of the vinyl clapboard. Find something to hang where the patio door was. I would mimic a window. Lots of salvage window to be found. Paint the garage door to color of the brick. It is not too late to paint, unless you are in Alaska. Sherwin-Williams offers their Duration line "which can be applied in temperatures as low as 35 degrees with perfect adhesion". Please don't paint the brick.

Is the brick painted? If so, you can use any color, but I wouldn’t color block like it is now. If the brick is not painted, match the rest of the body color to it.