Well, with the caveat that I've been studying Victorians, I think its nice to have contrast between the flat surfaces (front door, shutters and garage door) and the trim (door frame, garage door frame, and gable board above the e garage). Also, despite the current trend toward white windows, doing dark sashes is more traditional - the idea is that dark sashes make the windows look larger - plus, white doesn't seem to go with your brick. So I'd recommend bronze for sashes and gutters and any painted metal on the property (exterior lights, fencing - a wrought iron fence might look really nice with the brick, or you could paint the picket fence.) Then, you want 3-4 colors for the house itself - the body color, the main trim color (darker shade of the body color, in keeping with "coordinated and tasteful") for the door frames, window frames, garage door and gable edge, and the front door/shutters/garage door in one or two colors - shutters and garage door together with front door different, garage door alone with shutters and front door together, or all 3 together. It is very common to do the front door in an acccent color, and I do think a dark red that picks up the darkest red in the bricks would look great. The shutters the same red would be more lively, the shutters a dark brown would be more traditional/subdued. Doing the garage door, shutters and front door all the same would also work, but I think you want to downplay the garage door and play up the entrance, so I'd probably keep those two different. Note that using a lot of different colors will increase your painting cost - the simplest would be medium body color (taupe) with dark trim/garage door/shutters (dark chocolate), and red on the door to give the house some color. That would still look nice - there's no real need to have the trim vs garage door/shutters distinction. There's a good book you might be able to find at the library called "The Perfectly Painted House: a Foolproof Guide for Choosing Exterior Paint Colors" by Bonnie Rosser Krims. I found it very helpful. Let us know how it turns out! -- Amanda

Hi Max, I'm sure we'd all like to help, and pictures would definitely be a good idea. Some guy named Steve.

Houssaon, Teak is the color I really liked, and your example turned out beautifully. Thanks so much taking your time to do that and for the photo examples... for someone who doesn’t have the vision of what it would look like... your examples are great. fidlfreek... Thank you for the information.... We are definitely concerned about the heat retention, and have looked at adding extra insulation as a result.... hmmmm, so a black roof may make our efforts take a couple of steps back... ♀️

Thank you. I knew what you meant about the navy.Even though the color we chose is called green it’s actually gray with some minor green undertones. The rest of the color group is called gray. I know what you mean about the soffits matching the trim. Thinking of mixing that up a little. Right now our soffits are yellow but so pale it’s not noticeable. I figure if we chose blue it wouldn’t show that much but just e ought to make it fun