Don't know if you ever considered going with something with a gray/ blue tones.

Nice house. Paint the garage door and trim a medium tone charcoal gray. Problem solved

I wouldn't pick a color that's too cool since it could fight with your roof and brick. Is it possible to post a closeup of the brick?

We clad accent walls and features in cedar planks attached to furring strips we screwed into the brick. Gave a flat, boring 60's ranch house a fresh modern look (along with painting the brick, of course!).

Would you consider painting the brick? You could then use the same color for the brick and the siding which would make the house more cohesive and not chopped up by different finishes. Don't paint the garage door! Too pretty and would look amazing next to warmer tone on the house.

Looks like your roof is lighter brown/ beige so I would probably use warm colors in that family. They I'll look good with your wood garage door. Consider an orange or pumpkin for your front door too. The other thing I would highly recommend is getting rid of all of the bushes (end of driveway, walkway and beside the two front windows) and doing other foundation plantings mixed with warm colored flowers. If you can swing it, change out the old brass lights for something larger in size and in a darker metal. Wishing you all the best and please post "after" pics!

Thanks Nancy for doing the mock up, it helps as I hadn't thought of blues, my first instinct was to lean toward the warmer analogous colors.

Thanks shari13 - Totally agree with you about the large bushes, we'll be tackling those later on and getting rid of them or replacing with smaller shrubs.

Chloebud I lean toward the warmer colors as well. Here is a closer photo of the bricks.

Warm gray, black trim and punchy orange door. Perfect match with the garage door.

New Leaf Renovation and Arthur Rutenburg homes - Thanks very much for your ideas, unfortunately my husband won't hear of painting the brick or covering it and that is the problem I am having as I think having just one color on the main body of the house would make it look bigger and not draw attention to all the boxy pieces that are there now.

Thanks MK, I like the grays but just not sure how it would look with the tan roof. The eaves are fairly big and was hoping to go a lighter color with them to provide some reflected light inside as well.

Look at Benjamin Moore's historical colors. You need something muted, and many of those offer just the right hue. I'd consider a light green and possibly a coral color as well. It looks like you have white trim on the windows, which you should take into consideration. Unless you're in love with the wood on the garage, I'd paint it in the same trim colors for some extra pop.

Thanks very much groveraxle, maybe I have been trying to reinvent the wheel when I should be leaving the colors alone and just refresh everything and go with a slightly less dark brown eaves, gutter & fascia than we have now. The dark sidelights look way better too and are a big update.

Your use of a paint color averaging the brick really does lessen the choppiness of the front and make the whole thing more cohesive, just not sure if I could live with it on the rest of the house.

I really like what cloveraxle posted. I also totally agree with your husband about painting brick. Ugh. I also really like your clear, vertical grain wood garage door. That kind of wood is becoming harder and harder to find and should be treasured.

Thanks reupser, we do like the look of our garage door but it isn't insulated, just has the thin wood panels and our winters can get to -35C so frosts up big time on the inside. We tried changing out the weatherstripping, new rubber on the bottom, re-staining the inside and outside but still have to keep a fan running to keep some of the frost off so were thinking a an insulated steel door might help.

Hello, redland65! We've found a color, you might like! And it's frost resistant 100%!

Don't want to dredge up an old post but I can't help myself... would love to see what you ended up doing if you see this comment!