Posting pictures of your home will get more responses…plus with north facing front ….it is helpful to get pics at different times of day…as you are North facing it may be better to go lighter than you think …from just looking at swatches …lastly the surrounding landscaping,etc. have an effect on color choice

I added a picture from spring. updated plan is to do shutters, porch rails, and beams (there are dark beams near the door area if you zoom in) dark, trim in light color and do fascia in light color. Vertical lighter trim at sides of doors area will match siding and not be light. Door stays as-is. All the dirt areas are green in summer with perennials/groundcover.

Just another suggestion instead of browns a grayish green would look good on your home

Have you given this feedback to the color consultant you hired? A second try is likely to be more to your liking, once they know what you think about the first set of proposed colors.

Only one of the windows that you show on the front of your lovely home is appropriate for shutters. Post a full front photo of your house and a close up of your stone. Colors might be matched from your stone for the elements that you intend to paint…

Your siding color is a bit too dark and I don't like the contrasting corner covers.

Select the lighter color taupe from the stone for the siding.

No specific colors to advise, but I would return to the consultant to refine what's been selected. Your porch looks pretty low to the ground. Perhaps it does not meet the local height requirement for the railing. I think things look quite busy, so anything you can remove would be helpful in getting a simpler facade that makes the most of the focal point front door. Agree the verticals flanking the door should be painted to match and fade away into the siding as should the corners and downspouts (again another distraction that pulls the eye away from the entry.) Your porch lights are too small and don't reflect a lodge-like feeling. They should be 1/3 of the front door's height. Here's one style but it may not be large enough for your application. Look for some with a matching pendant that can hang much lower than your current one. I'm not a fan of short shutters on wide double windows, and think those look a bit too countrified for a lodge home. Take them off and see if the siding is a different color underneath. If not, then consider leaving all shutters off for a better, and less busy, look. Perhaps just continuing the trim to the sides would be sufficient for you.

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It's difficult to select colors online, but I like the current color of the siding better than the newer choices so far.

If I was picking a neutral, I would go lighter and not contrast the corner boards and those sorts of trim details so much.

But go back to the consultant. This was just round one: she gave you browns and tans because that's what you thought you wanted, but trying them out maybe they're not working. Nothing wrong with that, just look at others, there are plenty to choose from.

I agree we would like to simplify. I didn't think about removing shutters...that may be an option on some areas? They are coming next week to paint and I am suddenly freaking out. New lights are also a great idea. The current style definitely doesn't go with the house at all.

@decoenthusiaste, woould you remove shutters from the windows on the porch only? On the walls to either side of front walk are windows with shutters, and also two on the front at left (one covered by tree). The window at right is boxed out with no shutters (covered partially by purple tree in bottom pic below).

1. Also we ruled out green--we think it's just TOO MUCH green and aren't into it enough to make a statement.

2. We may eventually change out the stone, which is fake stone and we don't love it, so while I do like taking the lighter buff tone and using that, please know we aren't married to the stone or especially trying to highlight it. We also need to re-do the front walk in the near future (next spring??).

Another question...if I remove shutters from porch windows, what do I do about the trim sections above and below those windows?? Paint to match siding??

I think the house would probably look fine without shutters, but if the only double windows are those on the porch, they could be selectively removed: the shutters are appropriate to the house, appropriate to the single windows and appropriately sized. And since the double windows are only under the porch roof, I think those could be removed and the others remain. If you don't want to remove all of them.

I think you could actually have additional trim pieces cut to butt against the top and bottom ones and then paint them all the same trim color TBD. See my earlier comment.

Removing all the shutters would streamline and modernize the look of your home…bringing the eye to the entrance which has the geometric trim..and posts…….

I think trying to match the house color to the roof is a mistake here…the roof is a huge portion of your curb view… and would benefit from a contrasting color on the house

In your picture…gray house …gray driveway …gray roof….looks(sorry) drab…i would go bold on house color

Navy?…dark green?