Grover, it makes me feel better that I'm not the only one who can't use the SW visualizer! Made a trip to SW store to get quarts of darker and medium green, but they don't sell quarts of stain, either for wood or concrete. To try different colors, you have to buy a gallon! I sure hope we like these colors. I'll post when we get some sample colors on the house.

Would do either brick or stone over the foundation only and siding above that. Use only one kind of material in the gables -- perhaps horizontal siding the rather than vertical. Would not put any hip roof on any part of the house. Stay with gables and steep slopes with straight edges at the bottom of the slopes all around for your gutter. Would change the roof to have one and only one ridge line height -- the higher height -- and decrease the number of gables to be one facing the left end of your home, one facing right end of your home and one facing the end of the angle of the garage -- not over where the garage doors are now shown . Would not cut corners in the cost to cut corners and create angles in the garage. Would keep the walls leading from the home to the outer left edge of the garage straight all the way to the end and would seriously consider putting two garage doors the same size in that angled end of the garage even if that means adding and additional few feet to the garage length -- definitely would not pour the front yard in concrete for a driveway. Extend the width of the forward facing gable over the front entry to cover both the front entry and those two larger longer/taller windows to the right of it. Extend the depth of the forward facing gable to cover a porch at least 6' deep. Where you currently have windows in the upstairs in gables, the slopes of which will take away room from your upstairs rooms, add dormers there rather than full gables enabling you to have more/larger windows and more room / headroom in the upstairs rooms. There are different kinds of dormers with different shaped roofs. https://www.google.com/search?q=dormers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHsdacuJPlAhVJmuAKHZ9AB4sQ_AUIESgB&biw=1328&bih=617#spf=1570770556130

tr,,it's a little too far back. you won't be able to see any detail. (so, get ready for a bunch more pics! you really have a lot of options w/this brick) I've got some diff garage door options, a front door, and I've thrown in 4-5 more color combos. However, in order to work w/a larger pic: Move over to the right just a little, and come forward a few more feet so that we don't see the fencing. see if that works. (and hopefully you take a picture at present so we get the landscaping) in the meantime, here's a dark door and a light door. (but you really can't see the front door very well because it's too far back! here's a warmer charcoal on the garage, and a soft pink door ( just pick one of the brick colors) I think if you did the siding and the fascia trim in the same charcoal, it would look nice. Kendall charcoal is a warm charcoal. that could work. or BM Gray, you could do a lighter warm gray on garage door (with the hardware) and a darker gray on the siding. Paint the trim a soft white. tried to show it here. Maybe like these ? you have the two grays, Or, just go w/the color palette on the left. If you can swing it, I'd get a panel of windows, along w/your current hardware, added to your door. looks so much better. The panel of windows, the iron hardware, the lights. I also found the perfect door for you. This one. (no side lite) And this color. See how the siding is painted a medium gray? The front door is a dark charcoal, SW Iron Ore. then do the pretty pink flowers in a dark gray container. Bright white trim (in one of those whites I showed you). maybe think about doing some black slate tile on your porch floor. and, think about doing something w/that wood fence (if you haven't already). throw a fence stain on it I'm kind of digging this aluminum style garage door on your house! With a new front door and the new colors, it will be totally updated. (don't forget the fence! ) The silver color door is nice w/a blush front door. Btw, found a few more colors for the brick. more of a terra cotta color for the door (or I guess you could do the siding) and the other two would be siding/ and trim. this one, Ashley gray would be siding, Trim would be middle one, and the front door would be the terra cotta. as for the garage door, you'd do the gray color like the siding.

What exactly are you trying to achieve - just a newer fresher look? How bout just a new livelier color for door (paint sidelights same color) and shutters. The greens above are good or maybe a dark inky navy blue. Greens and blues are opposite reds (ie your brick/roof) and yellows (cream trim) on color wheel - i.e. complementary colors. Also look up 60-30-10 rule - applies to exterior as well as interior. There is a science to the art of color selection! Right now your color scheme is working! Tthe proportions are good - main color red-brown (60%), yellow white trim (30%) and then your 10% accent color (currently black). The warm white looks great with your red-browns. I would also like to note that your brick is not the dreaded dull pumpkin color that some people dont like, it is a nice variegated pattern with rich colors. The whitewash thing - it has its place but slapped on anything and everything is just a passing fad and would be huge a mistake for this house. Conceivably you could do a more translucent masonry stain in some darker earthy color (just saw this dark sooty almost-black stain on brick that looked very striking) but then Im back to the question of what do you want to achieve, and why. I agree that getting some flowering shrubs/ ornamental trees/perennials to frame your house and porch is the place to start.