Just a warning on white. It does not hold up on the brick well and I have found it looks bad after a while. Grey, that looks nice and holds up well. there is a home decorating forum on here under "that home site" and they do a lot of photo-shopping of ideas including house exteriors. I posted my house on there and they did it in about 15 versions which included the landscaping. You might want to try them and if they help post a link on here so we can go see. I have included the link to my house. the thread is old so you will notice that a lot of photos are missing. Scroll down and you see many ideas they contributed although the best ones are missing.. Here is a link that might be useful: they helped me with my house

Hmm... I'm noticing that even though that article begins with a nice drawing of a bee visiting a bachelor's buttons plant, BB's are actually not included in the list of hardy annuals suitable for winter sowing. That's surprising as it reseeded quite well for me. I've always been intrigued by what determines whether the seed of any particular annual, dropped by the plant's mature seed pod in late summer or fall, starts to germinate a few weeks later in the warmth of late summer or fall, or doesn't and instead over-winters to germinate and grow the following spring. I remember seeing many BB (ok: Centaurea cyanis) seedlings around their parent plants around October of last year and thinking, "Oh, my dear brother -- you shouldn't be growing here now. It's not going to work out well for you in the long term. Have you heard of something called winter?" I'm guessing they eventually all learned their lesson. But other seeds from the same parent plant get smart and decide to remain on or slightly beneath the ground during our cold winters, don't mind getting snowed upon, and then in April celebrate their great fortune and good wisdom by growing into nice healthy plants in May. And then in June they celebrate their beauty by bursting forth a glorious blue, or purple, or white flower. I know that many plants know enough science to insert into their seed some sort of chemical that allows the seed to go dormant when it needs to. Do all annuals that grow on the east coast have a fall-dormancy chemical in the seed? Some? Most? Even if many do, I would guess that sometimes it just doesn't work. Maybe the dormancy chemical is only effective for some percent of the seeds, and that some other seeds do germinate, or try to germinate, in the fall when it's a fairly good bet that germination will not lead to a full plant. We all know that's why nature insists that flower plants produce so many seeds: to guard against the unexpected or unwise. But every spring when I see these brave seedlings, already nicely-sized for early May -- way, WAY bigger than any plant growing from seed I'd been able to plant even in earliest spring -- I think: yes, this is one of the real advantages of winter sowing (or really, fall sowing), here done by nature, not by any human. She really knows what she's doing, or at the very least, how to make up for any inability on her part to foretell the future.

A neutral brown, medium tone, will be the most timeless and will go with everything. Avoid grey floors and too dark.

Vinyl siding is low maintenance, so we have resisted painting ours. I recently scheduled a virtual consultation with Sherwin-Williams (https://homeowner.sherwin-williams.com/colorconsult/) to help me work with the color of the vinyl siding and pick out accent colors for our front door and railing and garage door pergola and to get advice about painting or not painting the trim around the windows. The designer was awesome and spot on for making recommendations, sending color choice options, explaining her choices, etc.. I would give them a try first and see what they say about working with the present color of the vinyl siding. Hope it helps and saves you future maintenance.