Thank you!!

Love the orange brick Colorography @marylee h

Before deciding on an actual color, first consider if you prefer light or dark. Also important is to factor in roof‘s shade and the overall combination, including front door (highly suggest painting). I’d be purchasing a few quarts of narrowed down colors and test. It’s a huge commitment financially and living with. If it were me, I‘d be postponing painters. Hope these articles helps as well.

https://www.elegantpainting.com/gray-colors-that-go-with-red-brick/

https://thecolorconcierge.com/best-exterior-paint-colors-red-brick-homes/

This is my fave with red brick I do not like real gray . Are those the new windows in the pic? I think a new front door with some galss would be nice

Is that pic with the new windows installed?

My personal preference is a lighter color. The dark colors make it look top heavy. And a bright color for the front door,.

I actually like the existing color because of what ShadyWillowFarm said - the darker colors just look top heavy. If you want to change it, I like Gray Clouds the best because it is the lightest color out of the ones photoshopped. I tested Sea Wind once in an interior room and it was too green for my purpose, but that is not a bad thing for your purpose. However, I also tested Guilford Green once and that was much greener than I was expecting, and not in a good way, so I would pass by that one. Silver Sage looks like it might have potential.

I think you need a new front door or to at least paint it a different color. The white really stands out (especially against darker colors), and not in a good way. Once you choose the exterior color and paint, repost for comments on your door.

I agree with those that say the existing color looks really good on there. I would repaint it the same color, or a color very close to that one. I dont mind the doors, but, they could be painted a brighter color.

I like the charcoal sketch suggested above and simply added some details to it:

A walkway with large pavers & stones, simple landscaping along the front of the house (easy maintenance perennials), new larger sconce above front door, and although I'm not always in favor of shutters, I think that with the dark charcoal you needed some detailing, larger pots for your cedar shrubs to plant flowers around them and bring them up to the front door level

This is a photo before windows were installed because they are now masked off but we did white vinyl windows. We do plan to paint the front door. We previously had a door/large window combo in place of the double doors but after a therapy ball was "accidentally" thrown at the large window by a visiting cousin we decided to go with less glass. Lots of kiddos around here and despite best practices, things happen.😕

Love the light shades from Marylee.

When I posted the picture the windows didn't have the exterior trim up. Surprisingly I like the darker colors but see what lisedv said about incorporating more colors up. What if I pulled the grout color (greige with greenish undertones) up to the window trim and fascia?

If you were to install a large trim around the window then painted white you wouldn't need shutters. Hard to say since we don't see the windows with their trim.

lisedv, Thank you for the "mockup" that is exactly what I need for my brain to decide. Is that an app that you used?

I love your landscape ideas as well. That will be next. We bought this house in 2019 and it had been a very neglected rental. Slowly getting things knocked out.

Also on that trim would a white or a more creamy beigh color be better?

This is what we started with and I know we have such a long way to go!!

We 100% plan to paint the front door once we do the exterior.

It's a cute house and I'm sure you'll enjoy renovating to your taste. Just noticed that the colour I used in my sketch from one of the proposed ones above was SW Inkwell which is a dark greyish blue. If you want the blue colour, it would be nice with SW Alabaster White. However I was thinking more of a grey so look at the proposed colours below (but I didn't change the colour in the sketch since the effect is very similar).

Ordinarily I rebel against white on everything and anything, but in your case think your white works pretty well as the layer in between your BLUE (ok blue-gray) ROOF and red brick. So many of the samples above (as well as your yellow original color) just dont work well, because there are too many colors in equal amounts and all are sort of at odds with each other.

Listedv - your last sample above nailed it. Looks good! I think if its a gray, it very much needs to be a blue gray because of that darn BLUE ROOF. The red then becomes in effect the accent color.

You can't trust computers for exact colours either from samples we look at or photos so anything suggested has to be verified on site.