Instead of painting the brick, I would remove the faux Tudor trim, re-stucco the area and paint the stucco and any siding. Try a darker tone from the darkest roof shingle or the darkest brick. I barely can see a lantern light on your porch. That needs to be about 1/3 of the front door's height. Then tackle the awkward shaped shrubbery with a new landscaping plan. Its possible that you could salvage some of the shrubs that don't reach the window sills, but the tall, funky looking ones need to go, IMO.

Research Romabio instead of painting. It is a better application and can be customized for color. Paint is not good for the brick.

your brick isn't that bad. I think if you did a few other things first, you may like the update.

Let me show you a bunch of pics with and without paint, and some other ideas.

The first thing I'd recommend is updating the flowerbeds. those mushroom shrubs placed without any thought actually detract from the home. I'd get rid of those and do some nicer landscaping/beds.

Here's a quick photoshop w/the landscape, a few bright pots, new vertical address, light and a diff door in black. (but any other matching colors would also be nice)

blue arrow pointing- why is that covered? is that supposed to be a window?

The current pink/beige color and that trim needs to go.

Here are some other possible combos that work w/the brick. See the following pictures for ideas w/the stucco/trim, brick and other elements.

check out these flower beds. the house itself went from white trim to a darker charcoal trim, but the addition of plants in the flowerbeds, a little color, really make a diff

I agree about removing that faux Tudor trim panels. either redo the stucco and leave it, or, cover the stucco w/this board and batten look. Again, look at the diff in the flower beds on the before and after shot, as well as some hardscape

See this before shot and the similar shrubs like yours? now look at the after. So much better.

If you choose to paint the brick, you can do a full coverage like this w/Romabio Masonry. This is no upkeep as it's a lime that naturally patinas w/time. It won't hurt the brick. you can tint it any color

if you like something like this (replace your stucco w/similar siding if you like. These flower beds are gorgeous and look great w/this simple limewashing

or this one. do a lighter, warmer gray for the trim

also limewash.

Again, Romabio Classico

I like this one too. they redid the flower beds, the trim color/garage doors, and notice the area around the bay windows how they changed up the color and trim. You already have the darker window color.

Diff colors and diff levels of limewash you could choose to do

Somewhat similar to yours w/o the stucco. You have the dark windows, so you could do a darker trim around them along w/the white brick. nice flowerbed plants, dark downspouts, diff front door, and a tiled porch w/flagstone.

If you do decide to limewash the brick in this fashion, here are some elements and colors that should work with it (if your bricks have these reddish/copper/bronze tones to them. hard to tell from your picture what their exact coloring is).

I love the warmer wood tones, copper colors, the grayish green (croc tears) and the sage color door. if you can bring in any natural wood w/posts, or maybe doing a shake/shingle over the stucco

to bring more wood, maybe you could add a wood truss up in the gable, or some cedar posts at the front. wood address placque. All 3 of those colors look nice w/the brick.

Hopefully these give you some ideas that you hadn't considered, but could possibly use!

Wow thank you all so much!!! We just bought this house and I’m so overwhelmed I don’t even know where to begin… you guys are helping much more than anyone else has been able to.

Also about the weird pink thing I don’t know if that was supposed to be a window or what.. behind that is part of the master bathroom… where the toilet is actually. The house was built in 1988 so we have a lot of work to do 😭 was kept in great condition though!

If that’s your bathroom, you’re already ahead of the game. It doesn’t scream “Fix me!”

You need to start a bunch of Houzz portfolios for every project. You will be better able to figure out your own style by just saving photos of rooms you like. I did that with my kitchen redo and then I was shocked at how many features I took from my Kitchen folder in Houzz.

A new house is overwhelming. What is your first priority? Doing a Romabio wash on the house isn’t cheap but it’s permanent. You can do it and your outside is done . Are there inside rooms that are worse than your exterior (which is not terrible at all)?

There are a ton of generous pros and knowledgeable house owners on this site. You will definitely get good help here, but it can also be conflicting.

Thanks so much for the tip!! I’m definitely going to do that… first priority WAS painting inside but that made me move to exterior and then so on so on! Nothing worse than the exterior. We could live in it as is forever and it’s totally fine it’s just outdated. I’m going to look into a Romabio wash as well. I love the idea of doing and it and then DONE.

Lime Wash

This is beautiful

Romabio won't change the amount of maintenance (none) that you do on your brick. And it doesn't help with the amount of maintenance (some) that you have to do on your trim. So, if you want a different colour brick, go for it. But if you're doing it for maintenance reasons, there's no gain.

Depending on how the stucco areas are finished (using a masonry stain or painted with exterior latex) you might be able to re-stain. But if you have paint on there, you're kind of stuck with paint unless you decide to strip off or cover over perfectly good stucco.

Regarding the bathroom (non) window, I'd use it as the backdrop to a focal point of my landscaping. An espaliered pear tree, classical statue or a fountain could work there and make the (non)window look intentional. Frame it with more plantings and it could be spectacular.

THANKS!!

@Jennifer K, my “done” referred to checking off a huge item on her to do list. If she makes the decision to do Romabio, she has changed the outside and can leave it until it’s time to touch up the trim paint. It sounds like she’s at the “I just moved and I’m overwhelmed” state of mind.

This is my exact state of mind and that’s how I took your comment… a BIG check off my list. We have 4 kids so any completed task is a win in my book 🤪