Hi Penny Margaret,

You have a beautiful house there. Those were some interesting years for development & you obviously got a keeper!

Anyway - it doesn't look like you need much. All you're really missing is the skirting under the (2) big windows in the uh... hip roof? (Don't tell anyone I can't remember the proper name.) Typically in this style the porch would be added under that roof because that's the 'statement area,' but trading a porch for a garage in your case probably not worth it.

Overall - add the missing skirting, double down on the dutch colonial features - bright white windows, shutters, fascia, a good navy exterior paint with a slate roof. If you want to get really crazy we'll do a cupola over the bay window & add a few falsetto chimney stacks. <--Everything after, 'slate roof,' was a joke, sorry.

Good luck & Have fun

-f

Are you keeping the roof for now? If so, new paint can be in the cream/taupe colors. A light Wedgwood blue was a popular color when your house was built. So was a grayish blue.

I would remove the shutters and paint the garage doors the medium beige/brown color from the brick so they aren't so obvious. No porch. Update the landscaping

I would go with white siding.

Honestly? I kinda like the current color combo! That said, I might go with a darker gray-green and make the trim more white, e.g. Simply White by Benjamin Moore. Then pick a dark burgundy for the front door and shutters.

My sister has a Dutch colonial. They painted the siding (all wood, no brick) Swiss Coffee (Ben Moore) and the trim is Tarrytown Green (Ben Moore). Looks great.

Here is with dark green trim and door

Colors combination

Dutch historic color palette

I might replace the shakes with the same vertical siding on the main part of the house and paint the garage to match.

I like the green. You could definitely go bolder.

Dark olive or dark green would be good with your roof and shutters.

since you said you liked blue, here are some blue and other combos that may work w/the brick. (have you thought about lime washing it or painting it?)

I actually like the lower right combo if keeping the brick and the wood shutters. the soft tan for the body and darker colors for siding and trim look nice. you could do a blue for the door

other greens and blues that would also work.

warm tones for the body that work w/the brick. and this deep purple actually looks very nice w/your brick colors

penny, yes, i've read it. did they use the Romabio?

yes they did. I just looked at it.

https://www.younghouselove.com/painting-our-brick-house-white/

this is perfect and is made for masonry

I like the clean look of no shutters and painting brick is IMO soemthing to really think about since there is no way to go back

Trim instead shutters

I like the house without shutters and a wider frame around the windows. If I were you, I'd paint the wood siding a blue or green. I like the shakes in their natural stain, but if you don't, paint that section, too. I would not paint the brick.

Thanks for the update. It looks good.

That looks GREAT!!! You must be so happy!

I probably would paint the garage doors, too, so they aren't such a "feature". Are you leaving the front door dark? It might be nice to brighten it so it draws people to the entrance.

That looks fantastic! There is a dark blue house in our neighborhood, and they painted the garage doors a dark wood tone look. They painted it to simulate wood. It looks terrific with the dark blue, and with your brown roof, it would really look nice.

Oh, and they have nice crisp white trim just like you.

After the house, landscaping. You must be happy, thanks for posting an update.

I love a Dutch Colonial as much as anyone, but the fact that the Dutch portion exists solely and exclusively within a minor add-on detail (the roof overhang) it is neither attractive or remotely convincing, and looks completely out of place fronting a ranch gable. I would get rid of this detail and make the house into what it architecturally really is.

That the grade drops down as one approaches the steps is another bothersome feature. Level the grade, or let it climb ever so slightly, between drive and steps. (It will be sloping away from the house entirely along this path.) Eliminate at least the bottom step.

Nice! Was thinking the same as Olychick for the garage doors.

It looks nice. Thank you for coming back.

I like Yardvaark's more simple landscaping.

You’re home looks amazing! What a transformation. I have a similarly designed trilevel home (minus the Dutch roofline). We went with a similar color scheme (slate blue/grey siding with white trim) and love it but have been debating what to do with the our ugly brick, it’s beige with light blue specks.. so the paint debate is: #1 paint the brick the same dark color as the siding like you did. Or #2 go lighter or even do a lime wash. Your post has given us an example of #1 so thanks for that!