Roof color is also important. If that's the roof you're keeping, it must be considered as part of the color scheme. The landscape hides your house. You may need to invest in some lower shrubs of low maintenance mixed with perennials. I wouldn't frame the house in white. Either one color for the body, soffit and facia trim, or at least a lighter tone for those trims. White window and door trim is acceptable. If your house were longer, the garage door in a toned down white would be fine. But, since the garage door is 1/4 the house front, I'd paint it the same color as the body or as the facia, soffit trim. I painted this house on Monday. The roof is Desert Tan and the house was originally dark blue with a white garage door. Shudder. It was a big blue box trimmed in white. Now it's Desert Tan roof with Cafe Cream body to match the new entry door. We surrounded the door with a forest green storm door and installed forest green shutters. We did paint the garage door the same as the body, but we separated it from the house with white trim. Michael

You might want to post in Home Decorating Forum. There are some people who have really good ideas re paint colors and sometimes even photoshop for you http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/decor

Here’s some inspiration from www.brickandbatten.com. Lots of virtual before’s and Afters’ s on their Instagram.

Hi Steve - The siding is currently Acadia White and the trim is Ashen Tan. I feel like I am going crazy though. The combination of the siding and trim colors just don’t work for me. To me, the trim/windows and columns are so pretty and they don’t stand out at all with the current color scheme. More contrast would make it look so much nicer.