This photo is tough to work with - because of the angle and the hedges it is tough to see the front of the house. Can you stand where the walk meets the drive and take a photo looking straight on, one that looks to the left side of the house, and one that looks right? Choose an overcast day or time it towards dawn or dusk so colors show more evenly. If you can remove the hedges or prune them below window level, that will help also.

How much of the orange on the ground will be replaced, ie the mulch or the brick(?) walkway? If that will stay, there isn’t much use in changing the house color.

Houzz won’t let me submit an edit, so one more comment:

I also would do research as to how painted brick holds up under your conditions of heat, humidity, and salt. Right now you have a low maintenance exterior, and in my area, paint weathers more quickly in coastal areas. Are there any houses at all in your area with painted brick?

With the lawn and palm trees your home is framed in green.

I would like this color for your house:

Key West Ivory and I would remove the shutters.

This is brick that will not be improved by painting. The problem with the overall scene is the not-so-handsome landscape. I feel confident in saying that none of the shrubs work for the goals of the house. Sadly, the two palms don't either. Other pictures will be helpful for appraising, but possibly hard to use for giving feedback on account of the amount of house face that is engulfed in shrubbery. We'll see.

I would not paint the brick.

I cannot see the pillars so no comment on that either.

Here are better pics of my home for your valuable ideas, thanks again for your interest!!

Here is another view

I wouldnt be painting a brick house in Florida. I would however, remove those hedges. They have been allowed to get way to big. The pillars on the house, actually look fine. Its a very nice looking house.

Need to add the flanking views in order to show surroundings. It's necessary to return to the exact spot where the center picture was taken & pivot camera to capture the slightly overlapping pictures.

Also, it would be good to back up and show the whole front yard from the curb & back ... which could also be taken in slightly overlapping views so we can see the front left and right corners. (Keep camera at single location for a given view, regardless of how many pictures it takes to make that view.)

Hopefully, you understand that those pics from altogether different viewpoints, while they may be useful to us for understanding more bits of your site, they are not useful as pictures for giving information back to you. For that, the camera needs to be in line with the front door and all pictures of a given scene MUST be from the single camera viewpoint.

You said you are "looking to do a makeover." But you did not list a single goal! What are your goals? What benefits do you expect to achieve from landscaping once it has been accomplished?

I wouldn’t paint the brick, regardless of how it weathers in your area. The light roof makes sense for its cooling the house, and a light color on the body of the house would be too much.. I would work with trim colors and remove the hedges, replacing them with something that can be easily maintained below window height. I think the red door is too much with the brick, and think I would coordinate the door color to the shutters. I would replace the mulch with a more natural colored mulch and see if you could use stain to darken the red walkway. As someone else mentioned, the porch posts are nicely proportioned. Color for the posts, window trim and roof trim can remain white or pull one of the lighter colors from your brick, but I would paint them all the same color.

I would remove the Greek type columns. I think simple wood posts suit the house better.

The hedges that hide the porch should also go away.

Do you like the other hedges on the right and lefts sides of the porch? They are covering windows and hiding the nice design of the house.

Do you have any favorites in your yard? I will let the Florida residents suggest plants for you.

BTW, I love your eagle.

Yes, there are painted brick homes in my neighborhood and they look much more 'up-to-date'. My home looks 'dated' with this type of brick, IMO. I definitely want to remove all the front hedges and go with a cleaner, lighter look. It's too 'colonial' for a Palm Beach look also. I like the look painting the brick SW westhighland white with lobelia shutters and door. (I used an app) Then, using flowering blue and white plants with yellow ground cover to eliminate much more grass--thoughts??? Can't take pictures currently due to hurricane/storm threat--still have shutters over my windows just in case :(

Any other input would be appreciated. I would love to have a more updated look to the exterior of my home. Landscaping and painting my brick.

Many thanks for your thoughts and insight. You have given me some great advice.

Wish we could see the after