Oh, heather, you have a darling cottage and custom board and batten shutters / great charm in your posts. .so many people come here with problems and you have a classic, integrated look. It isn't simple at all . . .

I would start with some landscape adjustments - trim the hedge low so when it greens back up it is below the picture window. The things I would consider in your shoes - a bright front door color is an easy place to start to add a little zing to a cottage . . your body color is a historic sea salt kind of color . . so you could paint your front door a sweet dark eggplant tone, a navy blue (sw needlepoint navy would be great here), and get a full light screen door so the charm of the color reads through. . . there are many cottage colors, and you ought to explore cottages here by building an exterior cottage ideabook, searching cottages and saving those you admire . Your color is very historic, a kind of green blue green with just the right amount of muting to give it charm without it looking like it came from a crayola box of 8 = when you search cottages, I think you will see what sets the good ones apart is a cottage landscape . . . so again, I suggest you start there. You have some great basic foundation plantings . . . if you layer in flowering shrubs and bulbs, you will have a wowsa result.