Can you post a pic of the front of the house?

I assume that's the garage door? My opinion is that once you paint brick -- there's no going back. "Embrace" the brick. Play off of it. The white with brick is very strong and plays against the brick. Try a warmer color, even a warm beige or light caramel. Then throw a beautiful, fun, contrasting color that you can live with (!!) on that garage door. If you are going warm caramel instead of white (for example), try a goldenrod-sort of color. Maybe throw that same color on the front door and then circle back with a trim color or accent color of red, ie: red flowers in pots or garden; red decor items at the door and garage...splashes of brightness will really help. Good luck. Let us know how this goes for you.

Jl10dm thank you for your suggestions. Yes I will repost the changes we make.

Lindsay, I really like the charcoal idea however, how do I tone down the white windows? Don't think I want to paint whit vinyl window frames.

The biggest problem with your curb appeal I see is the driveway and no landscaping in front of the garage area. Is it possible to put a bed of evergreens in front of that long garage wall? Or pots with evergreens in them? The maybe in the Spring, add additional features on that wall to break up all the brick look, like a climbing jasmine or something like that. The trim color I would use is black and get new exterior black lighting along with new front door in glossy black. But, truthfully hard to give much advice with only that one picture. Just kind of shooting some ideas at you for now. I would actually also paint the garage door the same color as the brick so it disappears somewhat.

black with white windows.

You might be able to add some brick pillars with lights on top at the top of the driveway or in front of garage area to add some interest to the exterior as well. Notice how they very effectively did this on the front of this home.

Black with the white and slate on the porch. Some trim in slate or perhaps some driveway edging in a slate like paver might add some interest. The idea is to distract the eye from the things you don't like to new elements that are interesting and refine the home a bit.

Flo, thanks for your ideas I agree the previous owner had no landscaping. We will certainly add some greenery and improve that area. Currently I only have that one front picture from that angle. I will add more when I can. I also like the idea to paint garage doors. As we will be building a new garage, I will have to decide what colour the new building and garage doors will be I would like the new building to tie into the house colours.

I was thinking of adding maybe some stonework and also maybe a centre gable roof in between the two small current gable roofs. I would like to modernize the entranceway

What about doing something like this over the front entrance?

Grapefruit_ar here are the front photos as requested.