Patricia Colwell Consulting, thank you for your help. We are planning to remove and paint the shutters and change up the landscape once the siding and roof are completed. Any suggestions for landscaping too?

Better photos, thanks. I would remove the shutters. They are overwhelming. Paint the body of the house, the board and batten, the taupe you love. Paint over the brick (or maybe a stain would be a better solution) black (and support columns black). Your house has a great look to it, but with all one color, it looks like a flat front. The wood stained wall by the garage...I like it. I would frame around the front door the same stain and a choose a black mid century style door. Found a photo that can give you an idea

Thank you all so much for these great ideas! The siding is only a few years old, but every contractor we’ve spoken to (6 now) has said it would be difficult to find the match, and even if we found it, it might not match exactly. Most suggested re-siding the top and continuing it down, or just putting up stone. The other concern about siding all the way down was the need to put furring strips into the concrete foundation. I’d feel so wasteful residing the entire gone and getting rid of perfectly good, new-ish siding!

I tried a few options; these are the ones I liked best. In each I've darkened the panels around the door, added planters, turned the entry lights on, and changed all trim that is adjacent to the brick to a bronze color that stands out less. The rest of the trim is unchanged. (I tried light/white trim and didn't like it as well, but others might.) Other than these changes, the first photo is as is, with the existing siding color. The others show the siding lightened but still beige, and then two versions of the current sage green trim color, just lightened a little more and a little less. (By the way, there are some contributors here who are absolutely brilliant with color advice, but I'm not one of them! Hopefully they will chime in too.)