I like knitting needles but might match the dormers to the roofing material so they aren't so prominent, since they're so big and boxy. I'd also remove the arched fascia boards and beef up the columns, possibly to square ones. They don't look capable of supporting the visual heft of the dormers. I find the side gate and extended roof line a bit awkward. Would you be willing to eliminate that and even up your roof? That is making the house look very lopsided.

I'd stain the brick first, then choose siding color.

Why just 3 options?

PPF took the words out of my mouth. Stain the brick first, then start choosing paint colors for the siding.

In terms of your mock ups, I don't particularly care for the ones where the gray is fairly close to the brick color (first two). It makes the house look too flat.

And I think you might want to consider changing you garage door color, too (maybe to a shade just lighter than the siding color you choose?) That's a pretty big block of white and it keeps drawing my eye back to it.

I like the idea of beefing up the columns and eliminating the side gate would be ideal, but probably won't happen in this round of updates.

I've already done a test patch of the brick on the back side. The grays are the 2nd row from the top in the picture.

Knitting Needles is best of what you show. Paint the garage door in same color you use for the house.

Since the gate is so prominent I'd try to make it attractive so the round top would make sense. Forgive my poor artistic skill but I have seen gates like this.

Its an Asian style "moon gate.'

So much grey... no chance of a little colour? The lightest colour looks best IMO but maybe a touch of blue or red somewhere would liven things up a bit.

If you are dyeing the brick DIY, would you mind sharing the product/manufacturer info?

Try a mockup with the fascia boards very dark to disappear into the roof and the siding lighter. Agree the garage door needs to be darkened for less attention, and your front door lightened to draw attention.

This is the brick dye I was planning to use, it's a company from the UK (http://www.limelike.co.uk/gallery). I ordered a sample in fossil grey and tested it on the back side of my chimney. Picture below is just one coat over my very orange brick. I think it worked great and I plan to order some of their brick-age as well to add some more variation to the bricks. The top siding sample is the SW Cityscape.

I like the lighter gray.

I'd choose primed siding and paint. Computer images are deceiving, but none of the grays shown look right to me.

Square off the garage door opening.

That big gable needs more than a small vent or window. I'm not suggesting anything specific in this image, just showing how a larger window or windows might look.

What color are you thinking for the trim?

I agree with you PPF. I don't think the computer generated paint colors are a good representation. And we are going to enlarge the window over the garage. I think it ends up being a rectangle about 20" wide and the height is proportional to the dormer windows. We had also planned to square off the garage opening.

As for trim, I had planned to keep the soffit/fascia white. I was considering keeping the rest of the trim the same color as the siding. The windows will be the ebony marvin contemporary, and I don't tend to like the look of black windows/gray siding/white trim. Also I feel like black trim tends to make the weight of the windows too heavy. So my thinking was that similar color trim would keep the contemporary look with out being too distracting or dark. Your thoughts?

I feel this is not the look you are after, and also believe you are fighting the architecture.

You could choose a more modern color scheme that will give the house a more up to date look, while working with the architecture.

What would a more modern color scheme be? I was originally thinking of something like this:

But my husband was not on board with the white, which is how we ended up with gray.

I agree on removing the dutch corners to the garage.

I think white would have been lovely. Would he consider an even paler gray? My concern is that your roof is prominent and very dark. A lighter paint color would demand more attention on the siding.

Architectrunnerguy is quite the carpenter.

I personally like the lightest gray option. but I think it would look nice with white grilles on the windows rather than black.

Wondering how the fossil grey worked out? We are looking at purchasing the same.

After the siding went up, I didn't like the color of the fossil grey next to the Cityscape. I do love the limelike product though. I put a sample of it on the back of our chimney over a year ago and it held up great, just need to find a better shade. I see they have a new color, "Dark Ash" that I might try. I'd love to see a picture of your project when you finish.

In the 2nd and 3rd picture, you can see the fossil grey limelike on the bricks next to the cityscape siding. It's really a very light grey.

#4 is my favorite choice!

Wow the fossil gray is a lot lighter than I thought too. Thanks for posting the additional pics. So, have you done anything to the brick yet? I haven't checked out the new color. But I know there is something to age the color maybe that would help darken the fossil gray?

Gauntlet Gray!