The redo idea has been a consideration, we were trying to give it our own twist, but might not work. Any thoughts on a darker color, other than red? I’m not a fan of Taupe with the green roof.

Lots of examples on line of gray houses with a green roof.

Google your heart away : ) At least post your "twist" ? Please NO to gay?

https://www.antiquehomestyle.com/outside/color/28-weatherbest-gray.htm

More pictures in this article. https://www.awcolor.com/blog/2016/10/19/what-to-do-with-a-green-roof

I like the color it is, and would just give it a nice repaint job in the same or very close to same color.

Hi 
The outside color in some areas effects the inside heat, cold etc 
Where are you located. 
Or weather hot 90 with high humidity , desert with high heat, Buffalo with 78" snow

Desert side of the rockies, Colorado. 6800’ elevation. Highs in the 90’s, lows down to -10 or so.

Any thoughts on the colors below, I know many of the helpful responses sugged cream, is there a particular cream color name, vanilla’ish?

Mood makes all the difference! Stand outside, stare, and think about how about how all the ideas above make you feel. A few extra impacts below!

Unique

Dramatic

Historic/Classic

I know the houses above look very nice, just wondering if it would work on mine? I’m worried about how it will look on the wood siding.

Google is my best friend when I'm trying to visualize concepts I'm unsure about. Try an image search using terms like "yellow wood siding house," "black wood siding house," etcetera. I'm starting to do this right now and might be up all night envisioning your house! :)

Wow! Thanks for that Andrea. Now I’m seriously considering the same red or cream.

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Reddish orange goes well with green roof. If you want dark colors maybe along with the wood color. I like the white and green best and paint the doors green.

Youve been given the best options, GIVEN the roof color. Change the roof? change the options...........but at some point, there's the best of the givens AS ONE CONSIDERS THE COLOR WHEEL, AND COMPLEMENTARY COLORS ON THAT WHEEL. Or tweak the shade, or go bolder..

FEELING FRISKY??

JUST DON'T DO THIS..................................

I just helped a client with the same style with metal roof..we actually did green with green it looks really rich and did a dark charcoal trim..let me get a photo and post…

Roofs are expensive. And Metal roofs are VERY expensive. In part, or mainly, because they LAST A LONG TIME. Given where you are and the elements your roof will be exposed to…were it me, I'd be grateful for it.

I live rural. and to my mind, the brown or red with a metal roof on that style structure, makes it look like a utility building. I would vote for white (or….cream) - and a front porch to give it significant 'charm' factor.

Yes!!! to Jan Moyer's comment.

Waiting to hear back from my client with photo but this is a similar look and color combo!

I guess it depends if one wants the dreary look........? Or the fresh look......lol

Personally, if I pulled up to somber every day? I'd nick a vein. We have 7/8/9 months of.....UGH. Unless mommy nature shall smile on us.

Jan I did not make any negative comments about your suggestions…🤷🏼‍♀️The look I posted is on trend and is a very cozy rich look…adding a door with color or pots of flowers in spring and summer it is a very sophisticated look..CHRISTMAS it would look fabulous with Garland wreaths and red ribbon..my goodness your suggestions are not always the only options.

Yes please, I would love to see the green with green combo!

: ) Didn't think you did! Just imagining ...........what is rich in rural trees........could sort of die on the dust brown of a field lol

Remember...this is MY OPINION ONLY...you call your home a "farmhouse"....it's actually a "ranch-style" home placed on farm LAND...in which case, the CURRENT color combo is actually PERFECT for it...a TRUE "farmhouse" would be either 2 or 3 stories, and traditionally painted white or cream or yellow * I live in Maine and LIVED in a "farmhouse" over 100 yrs. old on 20 acres...LOL...I now live in a home similar to yours, built into a hill, ..appears to be a "ranch style" from the street, but has garages and walk-out basement under it...............MY home is white with black roof and shutters sitting in an acre of grass....In Spring thru Fall, it POPS against the wide expanse of green grass...In Winter it gets "LOST" surrounded by WHITE SNOW !!...LOL....CURRENTLY, YOUR home is ( according to your pics ) surrounded by LOTS of brown dirt and fields of dead grass...could THAT be what makes you think the current color combo looks "drab"???....MY ADVICE is to LIVE WITH IT...through ALL THE SEASONS...concentrate on doing your landscaping FIRST...that will change your home's "total color palette"...THEN see if you still feel the brown needs to be changed...JUST MY OPINION since at 73 yrs. old ,I've "been there, done that" with 3 previous homes...LOL...Congratulations on your new home...and you'll LOVE the metal roof in the Winter !!!

White is way too stark for your setting, I’d go with something warmer and darker. More organic and natural. Also, light colors and reddish dirt don’t play well. I’d keep it similar to the color it is, fits perfect in this location. Landscaping will help, too.

For searches, try ’cabin green roof’ for examples more like your house style.

ETA: At some point, you might consider something different with the porch columns. Less number of them, but heftier.

Light - medium tan for the main color. White window trim. Maybe try a darker color (a bronze) on the posts on the porch. Do you need that number of posts to support the roof? Maybe fewer, more substantial posts would really add impact to the look.

I liked Home interiors with ease suggestions if you you want a dramatic change but I don’t think the lighter colors are suited to your style home with the large expanse of green roof. I live in Colorado and think the colors of your house are very appropriate for the Rocky Mountain region. If you don’t like the reddish tone of the siding you can make it a warmer wood color and use the trim and door to add highlight colors of your choice e.g. black, red, dark green. If you want to add anything I would ‘beef up’ the pillars in front to make them look more substantial. I think the people who are showing houses in the lighter colors do not live in our mountainous state and don’t understand the light here and how it effects the look of paint.

If it's the roof that is making you feel limited, I believe that there is roof paint...although, that would take maintenance and would not be something that I'd want to do. You could invest in lots of solar panels and skylights and that would cut the visible amount of green showing! (only half kidding!) When I started replacing my roofs with metal, I went with a dark brownish slate color, and I love it. It is inconspicuous, and every color works with it because it is not the focus. I often wondered if the green or blue or red roofs I've seen would be a problem that way. Being you are stuck with the green, I think a whitish cream would be the way to go. I think plain white would be too stark. You could paint the trim a few shades darker and/or pop the door with another color.

I was just thinking...they have "wrap" for autos which are metal and exposed to the elements; I wonder if there is a product like that that would work on roofs...

From the angle, I can't tell whether it's standing seam or the screw-in type that should only be used on outbuildings because of a propensity for leaking after a few years...I'm hoping it's the first.

Contact The Color People in Denver. They have done three houses for me and I’ve loved every one. They give you the exact brands and colors, plus a detailed schematic of what color to put where. Some of the best money I ever spent. Takes all the hassle and frustration out of the process.

Digetalconcepts…Have not heard back from my old client on photos..but pulled up these examples I had in his file when we where debating colors..thought they may help visualize…

I would keep the triangular section of natural wood above the porch as is. It's beautiful. The white primer indicates that a stark white is too harsh for the surrounding landscape. I would go for a cream, about half way between the color of your lightest test swatch in the upper photo and white for the horizontal board areas, and use either a lighter cream or a green that compliments the roof (I love the green roof, BTW) for trim around the windows, doors and perhaps the porch uprights. The setting tends towards brown so I think you'll want something lighter for the lower part of the house to add some natural color and contrast and make it part of the natural landscape without disappearing into it. Congratulations on your new home!

Like this but lighter?

That looks great. I like the idea of keeping the triangular section wood colored and creating thicker wood columns. Maybe, if budget allows you can clad the white portion in sand colored stone facing.

What is the setting? Is there to be more homes around it or is that all farmland/ranch land/wild? Will there be snow? I thnk that I would contact a color expert on housing exteriors as suggested above. I’m not sure white is appropriate. Maybe there is a shade of blue that play off the green with a different color trim? Or a darker shade of red or red/brown?

Second pic was as purchased and it needed painting. VA does a good job of securing their foreclosures. We thought about near white shades but this turned out more integrated with surrounding forests of NW New Jersey.

Digital-I would enhance by deepening the color of body with deeper rich brown, eliminate all white and do trim in deep green. Get into the place and start collecting large boulders from the area and create beautiful surroundings that have stone and a variety of natural plant materials. Great place. Oh beef up the porch posts too.

I've had two green metal roofs and one green shingle roof. You can paint the green metal, but the paint job will only last three to five years. Then, you need to do it again. I did that and painted the house SW Navajo White.

Green as a roofing color is very limiting. Green metal will start to fade after a few years in the sun to a slightly less vibrant green. Keeping it green is your first decision. Yes or No? If it were me, I wouldn't paint it and keep it just way it is.

The second decision is to figure out how to work with a green roof? The last house I owned with a green metal roof was painted with SW 6142 Macadamia on the body and SW 6144 Dapper Tan on the porch deck. While I would never picked those out as colors myself, they were selected by the architect along with SW Creamy for window trim. It worked beautifully. They were selected to go with brown/tan/gold hued bricks.

If you wanted to go with a warmer white application you could consider SW Creamy or SW Alabaster. Both work well will brown, gold and rust colored rocks. If you want to move to an even creamier white towards buttermilk, you might consider SW Navajo White or SW Dover White.

A third home had a green shingle roof and it was sided with a very dark tan siding. You might go it a dark grey, but the green on the roof will do funny things to grey, so be careful when selecting a deep grey.

Flo is correct, you need to beef up those front porch columns, they are are too small for such a large pediment. Simply boxing them will add size and dimension to them.

What about a dark orange?

It is pretty much alone out there, and its not always brown, sometimes it is green, and sometimes white with snow. And yes, it is definitely a ranch house, my mistake. We planned on beefing up the columns, but I really liked the suggestion of eliminating a few. I think I can get rid of at least three by rearanging them. Thank you for showing me the green trim idea. I was so focused on playing down the green roof, but maybe I should embrace it. Thanks for all the great feedback! This paint thing has been almost a year long struggle in my head, plenty of goggling.

I really like your green roof. It’s one of the new colors of the year so your right in style. Not to mention it will blend nicely with the trees I think you should plant. I like the suggestions of landscaping and bigger posts. You could wrap them to make them more substantial. I would paint the house the rich warm gold you see in the rocks and the lighter rock color for the trim. Whenever you can take colors from nature they are sure to be easy on the eyes. I’d like to see pictures when you get this done. I think it’s going to be beautiful.

I live in a city so I am blown away by your view. Beautiful!

The white on the bottom has to go.... house is beautiful but looks top heavy. Need a darker color on bottom to ground it...... my two bits :)

LOVE the house AND the green roof !!! I'm think living out in the country lends to an earthy pallet. Maybe having the main house a fawn color either darker or lighter than the surrounding soil so that it doesn't just blend in. Try carrying the roof color (or a shade lighter or darker) on the lower section of the house, and keeping the dark brown on the upper section with a new coat of paint or stain would pull everything together. Adding a green door with a little green and bright bright white trim around the windows and door will make it pop!! You have been blessed with some beautiful large boulders that would add a nice addition to your landscaping ! Adding another tree (same kind) to the other side of the house will add balance. Large "stepping stones" of colored concrete or flagstone leading down to the lower section would make an addition to the landscaping along with some low maintenance plants. Sorry, but the color pallet available is very limited, but I think it portrays my ideas, hope it helps !

Lots of good ideas here. I lived in Montana. The cabin and new buildings all had dark green metal roofs (no fading after 15+ years). I embraced the green by choosing a dark brown (looked great with the wide open blue sky).
In your case, I would simply and paint everything including the trim a rich dark brown (more cohesive), give the gable end siding a fresh dark stain, open up the porch by deleting a few posts, replacing them with a beefier size that fits your home. The curb appeal came with rich rust door color (you can also be a bit modern and choose an apple green-ish color). Then plant some wonderful flowering shrubs to enhance your entrances.

To clarify, the lower foundation should have a dark color that will blend with ground.

 Such a beautiful ranch! That brown stain on the current porch overhang would look gorgeous on the rest of the house, including the foundation. I love the idea of dark flat forest green trim on windows and doors. Also agree that fewer but bigger rustic posts, with those diagonal y pieces at the top, would balance the roof and give the porch a solid, welcoming feel. If there are some big conical evergreens native to your area, consider planting a couple in the yard. Their lines would echo the roofline, and reach for the sky, further connecting the house to the land. And that would also work well with the green trim. Reuse that pile of boulders strategically, integrating them with some plantings in front of the porch and a pathway from the parking area to the porch. Over the years, you could change up the front door color with a lighter green in the same family, or a lighter brown,  a sage green, or even a mustard color if you are feeling bold. Here's my very rough scribbles to show what I mean. Also put a bigger stoop on that side door if you plan to use it,  and a bit of gravel or stepping stones to unobtrusively connect it to the front porch as well.

Just looking at the second picture and it raises the question of where you want people to enter the house. If that side door is meant to be the entrance,, add a substantial stoop and railings and some lights on either side of the door. It looks like the area where the white truck is parked in the other picture is the main parking area and that the lower area is not set up as a garage. But if it is,  you may need to add steps and a path up the hillside to that side entry. Also,  as above just a couple of tall narrow cypress type evergreens on either side of the lower level of the house would ground it nicely and add a softness to connect the structure and the landscape. Pardon my messy sketch, I have limited colors and wanted to show the whole house one color and that tan is the closest thing to brown in my limited drawing toolkit. Hope you get the idea!

Thank you, we do plan on adding a porch along the whole side where that door is just hanging out, connecting to the existing porch. Love the idea of the conical evergreens to mimic the roof peaks! Thank you for all the ideas.

I could see a rich, earthy rust color and some stone, cedar pillars, and a green front door.

One with nature.

I might look at a blue. Maybe use a green trim to march the roof. You could also incorporate a darker glossier shade of blue in some trim areas. Or do a darker blue only on the trim. I cant get the program to do the trim or to paint well and it’s showing two different shades of blue for some reason…