Thank all of you for the thoughts. I am not a huge fan of the flat grays that are so popular right now, because I think it's a 'trendy' color that will look dead and flat in a few years (because it is), and people will start repainting away from that in a hurry. I like the idea of red with white trim, but since we live in Norway, literally every third house here is a beautiful red with white trim (and it's gorgeous but I am not sure I want to be yet another one of those red-and-white houses). We are Swedish ourselves, so I've considered a sunny yellow with white trim (the yellow is pretty popular in Sweden). However, I also love green (some interior spaces are going to be happy rich greens when we are done with it), and purple, so that bears thinking. The white-with-blue-trim idea may work with a different-colored front door (red?), but I am not sure how well blue works with green. Since the house has such a lovely architecture (in effect, it has 4 levels inside), I also don't want to overload it with colors though, since that may make it look too busy. And yes, definitely hiring professionals, since it sits built into a slope on a mountainside, and trying to paint that ourselves is a plain recipe for disaster.

We did not do the painting ourselves but did get references from the painter we did hire. Here's our before and after:We went around our neighborhood and compared paint choices on a lot of other houses to see how we felt about making changes. Originally I wanted a darker and slightly less intense teal, but the painter wanted to use a different brand of paint, and so I settled on a more intense color. It was exactly the hue that I wanted, and my brother preferred it, and now I am happy that we used this color instead. Our house is on the west side of Los Angeles, less than three miles from the beach, and so color schemes here are probably brighter than most parts of the country, except Florida. I'm very glad to be rid of the fake shutters, and I don't miss the planter shelf, even though it was original to the house from 1950. We never used it, and so it only collected dirt. The front yard is busy enough without it.

No shutters. For sure you have to paint those bricks w/that peacock color! the brick pink/mauve next to that bold teal looks horrible! (I like the peacock, just not the brick color with it!) see below regarding liming the brick) if you want to keep the brick, pick a diff siding color) what you could do for that peak area is run the upper portion of siding in a diff direction. or do board and batten like they've done here. Above the windows, do the board and batten (shown here on the lower portion) (actually, this darker navy might look better w/your brick color) see? better than that peacock color. (if you want to keep the brick, you'll have to choose a siding that works with it, not against it) or even this very dark charcoal siding color/garage door in black, looks good w/this brick tone. see how they did batten pieces here? or, you could even do these shake/shingles on the upper part. another idea I don't know about the white door/brick w/this color. trim is ok, but I think going darker on the garage and on the brick would look better. I also gave you some cedar posts (what you currently have isn't doing anything good) and a wood door. the wood and this color blue are natural compliments to each other. of course your landscaping will play a huge role in bringing it together. I just want to show you how nice these darker graphite colors look w/the turquoise blue shade. and the wood accents too. similar house done in darker colors, including the brick painting your brick. use a good masonry paint like Romabio. you could limewash, or go for the heavier coverage w/the masonry This was used (you can tint this any color) (this has virtually no upkeep and lets the brick breathe) on this brick (which used to be standard red brick) you can read this link to see others https://www.paintedbykaylapayne.com/painted-brick-exterior/

It's not very humid there but we usually wait atleast a day at the very least. Hard to say what you can do at this point. Talk to your contractor and see what he says