Lots of great ideas, but in my experience, the colors we are suggesting have about a 100 per cent probability of not being the correct colors for your house. ie what appears yellow on my computer may appear more orange or green on yours.

This is how I always start when working with colors. Select a paint color that appears to best represent the over all color of your brick work and then choose a paint chip that best represents the overall color of your roof.(because these are elements of your homes color that you can't change...readily)

Then working in lighter and darker shades of these colors, take your paint chips and see what nice accent color looks great with them and use that on your front door.

Then I think I would go with a nice midcentury approach to your yard. Lose the lawn and do a nice medley of natural landscaping, xeriscaping, with plant material that is complimentary to the colors on your house, perhaps some naturally placed boulders intermixed.

For me, I think I would paint the multi-paned window to the right a step or two lighter form of the brick color, as well as the second story windows. These windows will than architecturally pop while maintaining a sophisticated subtlety.

Then I would paint the 2nd story siding a step or two darker than the brickwork. As well as the beam above garage door.

Then I might paint the garage door and facia color a tad (small amount)deeper than the roof.

I love the landscaping idea! Thank you. That mid-century is the style I love most next to arts and crafts. In fact you are right about the paint I have been trying different optioins, painted the garage door about 4 times now. I completely changed the front door already to an almost black brown and that WORKS. I painted the window and garage door trim cloud white but it is too stark I will take your suggestions because I think a tone on tone, darker and lighter will look better. The hardest part is finding a colour to match the brick. It has yellow and grey and brown in it. Tricky. Although as an accent colour navy blue and purple, especially dark eggplant and a rich opulant dark purple, seem to work well. I see this in flowers I have used etc. I will keep trying! Thanks for your suggestions!

abcmom: Purchase a paint fan deck, (easiest) or pick up the paint samples that are ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THE COLOR OF YOUR BRICKWORK . Then stand back at least at the street. Hold the paint chip up in front of the brickwork and then blur or squint your eyes, until the overall color of the brickwork blends together visually and then choose the paint chip that most closely matches. And then go lighter and darker, as needed, shades of the that paint chip.

Don't decide on any accent colors until you do that. You can have your paint dealer do a "draw down" of the color and also "draw downs" of the lighter and darker versions .Then you can take these draw downs ( a draw down is where they paint/apply a large sample of the color onto a large board, perhaps 8" x 10" or larger or smaller) Put the boards against the surface of the front of your house and then see how they look.

After the house has been painted , decide which color you would like on your front door. You could even have fun of painting it a color, and then in a couple of years painting the door another.

By the way, if I did not mention it, paint the fascia the color of the roof, but a little deeper.

Hope this helps. BTW, the blur thing really works. It is a "Look don't think" process. Don't question what you see. It will really elevate your architecture.

P.S. Don't paint your brick! You might want to power wash it, but that natural feature you don't want to lose.

Just my 2 cents (I'm an architect and interior designer that specializes in MCM design). Although I love brick, I don't love the color of your brick and tend to lean towards cooler shades vs. beige. If this were my home I would paint the brick and siding a light shade of gray and then a darker grey for the fascia and trim and use that same dark color for a flush panel garage door (very inexpensive). Use a fun color like an orange, lime or turquoise door and then save your pennies to replace your roof with a gray asphalt shingle roof (architectural profile if you can afford the slight upgrade) - or if you have a bigger roofing budget look into a standing seam metal roof.

I would totally stay away from red doors and warmer beige/tan colors to make this a very sophisticated and modern palate.

Also, if you want to save money select all your paint colors ahead of time because you will certainly pay for the painter to make additional trips to your house for your door and other trim that you were wavering on.

Post is four years old. What did you decide to do?