Or you might want to consider a blue:

I think what’s really throwing it off is the red brick steps and/or the lower brick porch painted green. Perhaps if you painted just that lower portion of the porch like suggested above, it’ll be better looking all around (though I don’t know how you’d do that!) ;)

Edited to say that, actually, once you’ve planted bushes in front of the porch, I think you’ll be okay.

Did you test it on the exterior first? Colors do tend to look lighter/brighter in exterior light.

I agree with Sammy that once you've added some nice plantings out front, I think your eye will be more pleased with the outcome. Seriously, it's very pretty right now. Time is your friend.

I like it

I agree plantings will help, and you'll adjust to the color. It's a great house. :-)

I think it looks great. get in some deep green landscaping, some Hydrangeas, white roses. I feel like a darker sage would be a nice addition. maybe up top, or on the posts instead of that bright white.

Thank you all for your feedback!

Sammy - THank you for the artichoke suggestion. I will try that paint sample and see! I love blue but unfortunately our roof is the desert tan color and blues don't seem to go well with that - sadly! That's a great suggestion about painting the area in front of the porch - I think that will help.

Chloebud - We did test in exterior but did not consider how many windows we have and the height of our house - this color looks much better on a 1 story!

Love the windows!

I think it looks great. Would love to see a rendering with plantings and the front steps painted the creamy color of the trim.

I don’t have the mock up tools or skills of many but this

Sorry having some issues with my phone trying to say this might give you an idea of how landscaping within aoften the look of the paint

Add me to the list that thinks it's beautiful.

I'd consider painting the door the same color as your window sashes. The SW Dark Clove relates to nothing else in the color scheme.

It's darling. Focus on landscaping, deep greens, whites. It will look great.

I agree, looks nice, a deep gold (against rust) might be a nice accent colour to tone down the green, hard to tell just from looking at a monitor. It’s light and fresh.

I read your description and expected much worse than what I found in your photo ;0) And trust me, I'm one who firmly prefers a house painted a color that makes one think it has always been there, blends into the site - not something plopped brightly onto a lot.

Its pretty, and looks quite nice. I do agree the color is a bit more ice creamy than I might have chosen for me. In fact, I suggested Pratt and Lambert 'artichoke' to a neighbor one year and at the last minute she changed her choice to more the color you have now. I may have liked your color drabbed down just a bit on a house for myself, but yours is not a catastrophe in any sense. Why don't you wait until winter season and winter light are over, see how you feel in the Spring.

This is a new construction home that was on zillow. It looks like others favored your color choices too ;)

It's a happy house! I would want to deepen, grey down the color a bit on the brick area of the porch and do the dormer window line in front the same. I'd live with the with the happy on the rest of the house because, unfortunately, I don't have a money tree in my landscape.

Have you compared the actual color with the paint chip you used when choosing the color? Do they match? Could this be an incorrect mix job by the store?

I like it! It looks fresh: no need at all to reproduce historical styles. It’s a contemporary take on colors from a hundred years ago. We aren’t living a hundred years ago. What’s wrong with that?

Yes on some great landscaping.

Personally I don't like the window trim color. On my screen it looks red. I would repaint the red white or the front door color.

I LOVE your paint colors!!!! It looks so bright and pretty. I'd keep it as is, maybe live with it a little while and let it sink in. It might be because you're in shock it looks so different from what you envisioned. Honestly I wish I could paint my house that color. I love it. It'll look great with the landscaping.

I actually like it (though I think Artichoke is a nice choice too.) It suits the period of your house nicely. What about painting the brick foundation and perhaps also the brick wall in a darker neutral to help ground the building, so to speak? I sometimes use a dark grey for that. BM Kendall Charcoal, is a good one and I think it would play nicely with your green. And I agree that once landscape is in and everything gets a little scuffed, you’ll feel better about it. Nice job!

I would bet if the stairs risers were a black it would tone it down overall for you. I think its the red brick giving it the christmas vibe. I think it is really cute and good for that type of house - I think you were likely looking for something more muddy/earthy so I can understand the shock, but it isn't "bad"

I do think it is too minty. I would want a much darker sage. I can't really see the red but it looks good from here. I love red and sage on brick houses. Here is a neighbors house that I love:

Also don't paint the steps!!!

I think it's lovely, but checking on the SW site it really doesn't look like Clary Sage.

Thank you so much for the feedback everyone. So valuable - all of it! TY!

Sarah B & Scottie Mom - I agree that giving the base and stairs a darker color and thank you for the BM paint suggestion

greenfish1234 - I think the darker sage was what I was going for. I think the pic you've shown is pretty too - the trim looks the same as the body color and I think that helps balance out all the red with the windows and the brick.

Clt3 - yes, it is clary sage. an important lesson in testing it on various parts of house in larger sections and studying it before committing!

@kristam777 - if budget is unlimited, repaint to get what you want - if it isn't, know that it doesn't look bad and is something for a year or so you can redo and not impact anything.

Funny look what I found in my pics when I was looking for the neighbor's house...very similar to your color. Here it is the red that I don't like I think. Needs to be deeper or maybe charcoal instead. But also it has no reference to a brick color as yours would if you left some exposed brick. What a difference with the mature landscaping. Note steps not painted!

greenfish1234- That house is so pretty. It has more trim than mine plus the trim is more yellow which I think helps balance out the colors more. yeah, maybe I should keep the steps. I do think I will be repainting the body at least to get a deeper green. I am hoping my painter will cut me a break!

If you live in a snow/ice area painted steps are very slippy.

One more thought, now that I've looked at it on a bigger screen: can you simplify the columns? I think that might be where you're getting the candy-cane christmas vibe ;-)

I'd try them all in the trim color--get rid of the brown base and red trim. It's a little too Victorian, IMO.

scottie mom - Thank you! yes, I had it all in trim color initially and but then my painter put brown and red all over the columns. and it definitely looked worse when he did that. unfortunately his ability to pick a paint scheme is worse than mine!

I may be the odd person out but I kind of like the rust with the pistachio colour, and I wonder if the door should be a similar tone? These two colours are a classic combo. Red/rust twigged shrubs/trees might be nice to bring colour into the landscape, like paperbark maple, oakleaf hydrangea, birch, dogwood, Japanese maple etc.

I am the opposite^. I don't think the rusty window trim works with the minty green at all but I do like the door color and think that would be very good on the windows. I understand trying to bring some of the brick shade onto the house but it just isn't working, to my eye.

Before my new siding, my house was painted in a soft sage green (Glidden High Tea) with Bleached Wheat trim and a dark red door -- and loved it. So yes, red and green can work together but they have to be the correct red and green paired. With the new siding I, like you, found that the color was not as expected, more of a yellow tint to what I thought was a gray-green -- but once I painted the red door, mailbox and accents black, it became much more as expected. It is amazing what a difference those small color details can make.

To avoid minty-ness, green needs to be muted a little with some brown/beige or gray/blue.

I think its quite attractive the way it is... but I think if the green was a darker, earthier mossy green that would take from "ok" to stunning. It really is a very handsome house ! Keep trim same - the rust color trim would look quite good and be better balanced with a darker, browner green.

Check out the dark greens on a 1900 craftsman about 1/2 way down the page - looks like maybe what you were aiming for? You really are so close! Theres some other greens + creams that look really great. The thing about old houses - they really do seem to come alive with original historically accurate color. Styles change, and 100 yrs later whats old looks fresh and new again!

https://www.oldhouseguy.com/exterior-paint-colors/

@Current Resident - Thank you! That is an awesome site. I was thinking something darker too - and it seems that rust / red window sashes looks less pronounced with a more yellow trim too.

@ kmg11 - That's funny. looks very similar to my house except they nailed the colors much better.

We have talked with our painters already and will be repainting our house (sigh). We have budget for it and I really want to turn it from "just ok" to "really awesome". Thank you everyone. This has been so tremendously helpful.

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I'm with those that think the house looks pretty. Perhaps a little mintier than you were aiming for, but pretty.

There have already been some excellent suggestions re: some different greens to try if budget allows, however, if it doesn't . . .

Definitely simplify the base of the pillars to the creamy trim colour, but leave the little hit of rusty red at the tops of the columns or they will look like they're missing something like your upper windows look now. That will keep the sash colour further away from the brick stairs which is good because it is a bit too "clean" relative to the brick and is making it look old.

That said, I like the natural brick and would not paint it unless absolutely necessary. If the stairs have to be painted for some reason, I would make the colour more like the side walk which is a decent match to the roof, both of which are more orange than the reddish brick. Your roof is very visible and the "tongue" effect created by the walk and stairs visually grounds the house as it is now with them being similar in colour.

And yes, foundation plantings will also help the house "settle".

i like you house : )

I really want to turn it from "just ok" to "really awesome".

Ken, The Old House Guy could definitely help you. The style of your house and the color palette you're after is totally in his specialty wheelhouse.