Looking to paint our home and really looking for some guidance on color selection. Walls, trim, front door, garage doors, etc. We will be getting new rain gutters and garage doors as well once the paint is done. So color for those as well. Very interested to hear suggestions on what you would do if it were your home. We are open to all suggestions on anything you see. The house also has used/reclaimed brick across the front and around the sides/back. It has hard water stains which has turned it to a grayish color. Really need to get it back to the natural look. Any suggestions? We haven't painted a home before, so any suggestions on what to ask or look for in a painter as well. What I've been told: house is stucco, supposedly never been painted or messed with (home is 30 years old) coming from previous owner and neighbors who have been here. I've also been told that u don't paint stucco, then others say you can. I saw a new post here regarding that same topic, so I'll keep an eye on that. Any and all suggestions are helpful. Will be doing landscape as well and looking for suggestions on yard, trees, plants, planters (keep or remove), etc., once we get paint situated... basically doing an exterior make over. Looking forward to your suggestions!

Your house is a typical center entrance Colonial built probably in the 1950’s. This photo is your house, with 8/12 windows on the first floor. A portico would make a big difference as it is an expected look for the style. I don’t see a glass enclosed porch on the front. What's with the off-side window in the connector? Is that the kitchen? I would be inclined to turn the garage into the master suite and have a free standing garage. Adding on more roof line to the house might not look so great. Put the stone facade on the garage and make it look like an old restored barn.

Numbers like this: https://www.houzz.com/photos/modern-house-numbers-modern-exterior-phoenix-phvw-vp~2634786. If you prune back your bushes, you could replace the current plaque with these big bold numbers, or place them under a new mid century modern light fixture that could illuminate them. You could also place them on the blank wall facing the street near your garage, but I am unsure of how visible that would be. This is where landscape lighting would need to be factored into your renovation plans.

Yes, looking for a modified cedar shake look, like a greyed brown which is the color cedar gets when it's weathered. Once we get the roof style nailed down, we'll pick our other colors from there. I like the idea of switching out the garage light fixtures too, I've always disliked those, although enviro-frugal me might end up just spray painting them . . . Right now I'm thinking I might try to match the putty color between the brick for the garage doors and siding. I don't want dark brown blobs, since my house is actually very "garage forward." But dark bronze trim would make the lights and windows pop, but in the opposite way they pop now! There's a bay window hidden by shrubs that will eventually get exposed when I cut down the shrubs and it will look good with dark bronze trim. Here's the only other photo I have right now showing the front, including the big white blob garage doors. It's actually a photo showing off my pepper harvest, but that's all I've got. I just want something warmer that isn't as "contrasting" but doesn't clash. That's harder than it seems when it comes to mixing colors with brick. Grey as a high contrast is lots easier than matching brick tones without clashing. Wood-look garage doors with bigger windows would be nice, but given all the other expenses I'm shelling out for, totally replacing the doors with something expensive would have to wait. We are also redoing our back porch to enclose it and install a wood stove. Hoping for a redo with colors more like this . . .