Can you post another picture of the house? The current one shows the house in shadow, so it is hard to see detail.

A quick glance, I would remove the shutters on the picture window. Paint the secondary door black or another dark color.

I like the board and batten and think you should keep that feature. Is the siding so bad it needs to be replaced. Is the current siding wood? If it is replacing wood with vinyl is not preferable.

I like your landscaping as much as I can see of it. I would add a native hardwood out in the yard.

Better photos:

I too, would remove the shutters.

Paint the garage door a darker color to compliment the brick base.

I'd just paint the Board & Batten Siding, it looks good, and spend the $ on landscaping, Tree planting. A new door with grills to compliment the existing windows, the railing you noted.

We’ve considered painting both the overhead door and man door on the garage the same dark color of the front door. The board and batten looks good from far but far from good in spots. It’s chipped a bit, but definitely solid and not spongy.

I think you need to address some of the small windows.

The siding you see below is metal siding designed to look like wood. Not sure of the cost but no maintenance.

If the siding needs replacing or repairing, please have the same thing installed. It is perfect on your house. Vinyl would just not look as good. I also agree on the shutters on the picture window. There are no other shutters, and because, these blend in so much with the siding, I didnt even notice them there at first, its best to remove them. You could definitely plant some nice trees there. It looks a bit bare. I also like the color the house is right now, so would repaint that color.

I really like this pale gray with bricks the color of your house.

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Our neighbors have a large house with similar siding amd when they moved in they painted the siding white and the trim a soft black, kind of like what housaon posted. It took a few days to get used to since it is a very large house but it looks great now, very fresh and current and certainly less expensive than replacing perfectly good siding. they also refreshed all the exterior light fixtures to modern black fixtures which added to the overall modern effect. i think a simialr treatment would work well on your house. And I agree the shutters should go.

Melissa, thank you for mocking those photos up. I can’t believe the transformation!

Also Melissa, if you’d have the time would you mock up some options with some grayish/tan/neutral? I love the green options!

SW Loggia and Inkwell

SW Popular Grey and Inkwell

SW Restoration Ivory and Inkwell

SW Gardenia and Inkwell

SW Gardenia and Urbane Bronze

The problem is your brick. Blonde brick doesn't work well with greys. The one example above you can see the brick is a bit darker than yours and also less yellow.

I like the three lighter colors Melissa posted.

lol @Houssam Bou Ajram and I prefer the darker colors by A LOT! I think the darker colors look richer where the lighter colors seem so washed out and over.

So do I.

I really appreciate all looks. They are all a great transformation. I agree the brick color is the problem

@Illini Fan I had the same color brick (and same colored roof) on one of my houses and I used the lightest yellow. It looked GREAT but it also had black shutters which helped ground it a bit. Here is a really light yellow on your house

SW Lily (close to Gardenia). Doesn't look bad at all but not the greatest

Here is the same pic with some badly drawn shutters

Looks better (to my eye) BUT, shutters are "out" on houses too so if you want to update I think you need to lose them.

I really think the key is to paint the garage door the same color as the house. That’s a firm decision. Now on to a color choice lol