Depends on what else is going on with the house. Here are two houses with aged pewter siding.

Mark, I understand your point, and appreciate your concern. However, I do tend to wonder what you would consider the point of these forums are anyways. Either way, we have a really good idea of all the directions we want to go. Every once in a while we disagree with each other, and we come to houzz to get some input. Ultimately, we are always the ones in control.

Good idea for color blocking. The current cedar siding is too damaged to use. With all the cylinder shapes on the house, we are limited on what we can use. Hardiplank can't be used around the rounded shapes. I am not a stucco fan. We have talked to numerous siding people and are limited to cedar again, a commercial metal house look, or vinyl to cover the rounded curves. The humidity is really hard on the exterior wood and we are hesitant to use it again.

If you have a sample board of the colors you're considering, please post a picture of it so people don't have to look up the options in order to comment. Also, it would help if we could see a closer up picture of the brick as the siding needs to go with the roof and the brick. Are you open to painting the shutters or are they not going to change?