i have a bunch of pics here, so use your imagination and try to vision what I think would look good on your place. Love you metal roof idea. I think you should update the home (the 60's were good, but it's time for a facelift) to more of a mid century modern vibe. there are a few ways. First, Paint. yes, paint the brick (With Romabio of course. it's meant for masonry and has almost zero upkeep. look it up. Not the lime wash one, the masonry paint. you can have it tinted to any color so, imagine if the siding was done in a dark charcoal, and the brick below painted a soft white or gray? Or you could reverse the colors another poster on here painted their brick and was looking for another color option for the siding. I'd do your window trim in a dark color. here's a before/after from another poster on here. looks good eh? painted brick, white siding, dark window trim, AND she added the wood slat on the porch area. Wood is necessary! so the other option, composite wood siding (Hardie) on the 2nd story, just like this. paint the brick oh, and more modern garage doors. that's a must I love this one. similar style home to yours. you could paint the brick white, do the composite wood siding, trim out the windows, new garage door, front door. (this is my fave) next comment i'll post more split level pics

The stone gives your home a casual country feel, so the rigid and formal hedges look very out of place. I would pull those out and install a more open and airy landscape using lots of native perennials that will thrive in your locale but not become invasive. The concrete planters are also of a different era than your country home, so remove them. Consider installing some landscape lights that highlight the stone. And since the stone is so massive, I would remove the little arch details on your porch posts and beef up the posts themselves so they have adequate visual heft to stand beside the massive stone wall and look like they can support your porch. Are you replacing the roof or cleaning it? I would take care of that before choosing a siding color, and I vote to remove the shutters. You should probably upgrade the porch lighting too.

Thanks for the feedback! And thanks for affirming my instinct to keep shutters and to do white windows bc it is such a traditional house. I’m leaning toward painting brick shade of white with maybe a tan shutter and dark wood door with glass panes. We were toying with dark windows bc we have seen house in our neighborhood doing it but couldn’t tell it that was really the right look for our house.

So i think if the diamonds on your windows is permanent, you should paint the house white and the shutters white, but paint the trim of the central large window black or charcoal. I would put brick-orange-red drapes in that central window, not bottom up white shades. If you really must have bottom up shades, get them in black or a dark color and don’t have any drapes at all. With brick red drapes in the windows I would paint the door a dark bronze green or charcoal. With black bottom-up shades, I’d probably go with a black door.