I am not a house :) I was just wondering if anyone's seen this done before. I don't want to do it if it's going to look bad. My mom mentioned seeing it on HGTV, but I couldn't find anything online about it. I thought folks here might have seen it done on TV or heard of someone doing it.

I dont know about "modern" and "new" - would visually cohesive and attractive be good enough? Change some or all of the white (esp bay windows) to earthier, richer color that blends in with the brick instead of contrasting so strongly. You might start with looking closely at the brick and get paint samples to match some of the various browns/grays/reds in the brick.... and then maybe darker/grayer shade of whatever color you choose for the garage door. Some paint stores have color consultants who come out to your house, in exchange for buying x amount of paint. The brick is fine - its a nice variegated pattern. Its too bad people end up with stark white with red brick, because its not the most complementary color for it. I think because so many pre-made things like storm windows and gutters are white, ev else ends up being white by default. Sill, I think just getting the garage door, bay and the brick to all relate better to ea. other colorwise will do wonders. What color is the roof?

I like the two tone look. As has been suggested, stain your siding to match your garage door. And...as you have already mentioned, replace your garage door with one that is more mid century modern. Also, your front door. I would also paint out your downspouts to minimize their presence on the front of your home. Or relocate them, if possible. Look into mid mod house numbers, lighting fixtures, and seating...if you intend a seating area in front. Modern planters, too, with ornamental grasses or spiky plants and trailing vines might be spaced across your porch, too. Love your house! Please post your after shots!

Would do either brick or stone over the foundation only and siding above that. Use only one kind of material in the gables -- perhaps horizontal siding the rather than vertical. Would not put any hip roof on any part of the house. Stay with gables and steep slopes with straight edges at the bottom of the slopes all around for your gutter. Would change the roof to have one and only one ridge line height -- the higher height -- and decrease the number of gables to be one facing the left end of your home, one facing right end of your home and one facing the end of the angle of the garage -- not over where the garage doors are now shown . Would not cut corners in the cost to cut corners and create angles in the garage. Would keep the walls leading from the home to the outer left edge of the garage straight all the way to the end and would seriously consider putting two garage doors the same size in that angled end of the garage even if that means adding and additional few feet to the garage length -- definitely would not pour the front yard in concrete for a driveway. Extend the width of the forward facing gable over the front entry to cover both the front entry and those two larger longer/taller windows to the right of it. Extend the depth of the forward facing gable to cover a porch at least 6' deep. Where you currently have windows in the upstairs in gables, the slopes of which will take away room from your upstairs rooms, add dormers there rather than full gables enabling you to have more/larger windows and more room / headroom in the upstairs rooms. There are different kinds of dormers with different shaped roofs. https://www.google.com/search?q=dormers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHsdacuJPlAhVJmuAKHZ9AB4sQ_AUIESgB&biw=1328&bih=617#spf=1570770556130