Ok, I will try to post a picture again! Thank you for helping me!! Let me know what you all think once you have seen the house - our front door is updated and wooden now. The old color (the shutters are faided) was a dark green and I just didn't like it. The garage doors are a big part of what you see from the street, but the white-ish color they are right now is so wishy-washy. Anyone know how to photoshop to show options? Of course we still have to landscape too. Thanks again!!!

Is this the color? If so, white shutters, brick red front door. This house is darker than yours, but the effect of white on the siding is striking. Maybe you are aware of sizing shutters, but make sure they fit the windows properly.

Mark, stop giving people ideas. The flip house down the street just painted their shutters (on a pale yellow house with brown roof and accents) the brightest orange yellow imaginable. I guess they are trying to make sure the potential buyers notice them. Without seeing your house and how all of the elements relate, and how much there is of each, it's hard to give an informed response, I conceptually like the idea of doing the siding in one of the darker or lighter colors found in the brick to make the exterior more cohesive and not so chopped up into different materials. I would only do your gutters in a contrasting color if they are going to be especially ornamental with downspouts planed out with conductor boxes and such as if they were historic copper gutters. Otherwise I would match your gutters to your roof fascia and eaves and the downspouts to your siding.

I think a French blue/gray siding color would be lovely. Make the front door more of a cedar color. Or paint it French blue/gray too. Make the trim and facia a shad darker than the siding.