It's a nice house with good color bricks. Put on the new roof, fix the grass, and live with it for a year before making major changes.

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It's beautiful. I would take out the triple windows and make them all the same size, maybe large enough to eliminate the siding beneath them or add this: . https://www.homedepot.com/p/ADORN-23-5-in-x-6-in-Desert-Tan-Stone-Veneer-Siding-Flats-DTFLAT/206194813 The driveway is just there to make use of what was already poured. That garage door probably needs to be painted the same color as the creamy siding around it? or a neutral that blends in with the brick...... The shutters could be removed till you figure out if they need to be painted a more neutral deep color charcoal gray? or chocolate brown? after the roof is done. Probably not white, may not need them if the window replacements are white........ ..., but before you splurge on the roof, looks like some trees need to go. That will open up for a more curvy driveway and if you wanted to put some nice quality white windows, or cover the area in a complimentary stone(see link above) in where the triple windows are, maybe a soft landscape of some plants and a park bench where there is concrete now could make the whole hard lines of the house be much more pleasant? Get rid of the chunk rock bedding edges and replace it with stone as the link above shows or just with soft small leaf shrubs?.. If you can salvage any of the brick around the triple window setup, you can use it beside the garage door outer edge? I see no reason to fuss about the brick when you have the gargantuan angels of trees ruling the roost. I seem to think the brick would be very attractive to you if the fascia board, and perhaps? the garage door, and the sidelight of the front door, and the shutters were of a very rich color white shade, or a browner rust color or milk chocolate color? That would tone down the brick and bring the house back too neutral. As in the link above example for that stone...If you had the fascia board in white, the side light in white, and the new windows in white, I think you might consider a medium gray or charcoal gray roof for the house . Tan or Brown roofs just remind me of mud huts. The sky is blue or gray and the roof should blend in likewise. I can't zoom in enough to see if there is any gray at all in your brick, but if there would be, I would pick a roof shade to meet it. If window replacements are not in the bank pockets, than use the shade they are and put that color where the red is now that is irritating you? I guess it is a brown window frame, so that is a good color for the trim to be as far as shutters or door sidelights or fascia board go. Well, there is some food for thought to consider. Good luck. I love a nice ranch home! Even if it needs some TLC to make it over. Very nice home. I see no advantage to painting the brick or adding roof offsets. It sits high on the hill, so leave it blend in horizontally as it does now. Some landscaping, new trees to scale in front of the house, flowering soft shrubbery bushes ---Desert rose trees or Rose of Sharon or crepe myrtle if you are in those plant zones...and soft bunch grasses after you remove the shutters, may let you see it differently, before you go into it more, for minimal cost early on..

What room is in the former garage? Would you consider moving the front door there?

Remove the shutters they were never meant to be on that house. and IMO this is avery nice house with a really bad choices for colors . The brick is what makes the house if you want to devalue your house instantly paint the brick What you need is time to learn to love a ranch the driveway is IMO taking over the entire fron yard if at all possible a nice simple drive to the garage and all the rest of the concrete removed to allow for landscaping to suit the house. New windows would be a good idea. Google MCM ranches and also MCM landscaping this could be an awesome house Something like this to lead people to the front door

The garage was converted to a bedroom and full bath. It is huge. I thought about front door there but it doesn’t flow with the rest of the house if it were a living room.
I’m going to move garage door over and move driveway over with it. That oak tree would have to go. The front yard is huge, as the house sits on 2 acres.

Not so much ugly as odd. Not a fan of the red shutters.

Please don't paint the brick.

Do remove all the red shutters and paint anything else left (soffit and/or fascia and/or trim) that is now red a different color -- preferably white but even black would be better. Then pause and look at what you have again - not nearly as ugly.

If you're replacing your roof, consider both enlarging and extending your forward facing gable so that it also covers your entry and creates an "L" shaped front porch.

This house has a lot of potential. The shutters do need to go, the front windows need revision. and the garage/bedroom could use some help. Let me see what I can dd. Back in a bit.

Remove,if possible, the middle (undersized) window in the garage enclosure. Replace it with siding to match the peak. Remove all of the red shutters and trim and paint a neutral color. Remove the portion of the driveway in front of the old garage and expand the driveway, if possible, beyond the new garage to provide additional parking. Then extend the front sidewalk to the new driveway and landscape. Blow up the photo of your home and experiment with colored pencils, altering colors, blocking out windows, adding landscape, etc. Your home has potential. Good luck!

The brick is the only interesting surface on that house, and you want to slap a coat of paint on it. Twenty bucks worth of paint will accomplish nothing other that lowering the value of the house.

Deal with the real problems--the amateur clapboards and stupid windows on the front.

I just realized you said you need a new roof.

Wow, GA did a great job with that mock up. Totally a classy ranch home. How awesome, another nice American home. I THOUGHT about saying black on the fascia, but with the windows updated on the former garage, there you go. Black takes that brick to modern, and some grass and landscaping makes it timeless. A gem waiting to be polished, truly. You could certainly have the shingles removed, have a radiant barrier installed with a concealed fastener, "standing seam look alike" metal roof put on in charcoal gray color, it would have great curb appeal. https://www.muellerinc.com/roofing Their next tone, a burnished color, is pretty dark and could overwhelm the light to medium tone of your brick. You don't want a house that is dominated by the roof in your vision, just complimented by it..... The charcoal gray from this manufacturer is the perfect tone for your home imho. If you don't have Mueller in your area, do find another manufacturer and choose a color that is heat reflective and has a color warranty which is great. You could put the galvalum on, and save a bit, (that standard silvery color)but the color warranty is only 10 years, the last time I checked.

The door might use a little color. How about a rusty red?

https://www.muellerinc.com/products/metal-roofing/cfs-panel/ CFS Concealed fastener.... you could even extend your front gable out as the house in this shows? Tho you really don't need to aesthetically, just an additional trim out of the home.

That looks great Grover. Much better. I still think the garage door needs moved to the left and then brick in the garage and underneath the windows in the garage/bedroom. Great ideas.

Shawn, adding to the existing brick would be great IF you can match it.

Houzz keeps eating posts. Let's try again.

I don't think you gain much by moving the garage door. You might replace it with a more modern one instead,

Rather than move the garage door, perhaps a double garage door, would be most effective. To move it is to bring the car further away from the existing wall of the closed in garage visually. A double door garage is the nicest structurally and most effective in cold or stormy weather, and can put a buffer exterior wall for garage storage nearest the interior house wall perhaps? and if you use the modern front door and style the garage to match with dual insulated garage doors & openers so only one is open in entry or exit...that would be very awesome, for the house curb appeal. Very awesome. Soooo!!! Loving this home!

Can we see a close up of your brick colors taken in full sunlight?

Love the changes groveraxle suggested!

Please do not take down your mature trees. Give them good care and they will enhance the house. All other landscaping needs to be replaced. Also remove unneeded driveway cement.