What if you painted the new bricks to match the colors of existing bricks? A few black, a few light, a few reds.

Transform the door surround to a stone entry. Very dramatic and will have the neighbors green with envy. If the door was damaged upgrade to a current insulated unit.

you could pick out the lighter color in the brick and do a stone entryway around the door. This will also create dimension.

When we turned a window into a door at the back of our house, we ended up with spare bricks. Any plans for increasing the size of window openings?

Your front door is a few steps higher than ground level. You could add a porch, just as wide as the overhang. But before you do, remove the bricks that the porch would cover and use them for the repair. Replace the bricks behind the porch with any color since they won't show.

How scary! Hope no one was hurt. Demo out something on the back or side for larger doors or windows and use that brick to repair the front.

I like the idea of the larger door with side lights or the stone. Save all the brick you can to fill in if needed. I would not paint the brick. Your just making yourself extra work re-painting every few years.

Make contrast your friend, please. Nothing looks worse than a near miss.

Are there bricks in another, less visible, part of the house that you could scavenge (rear of the house)?

I think cat_ky's idea is perfect. Also, the suggestion using rock around the new door is brilliant. Also, adding a simple but well-portioned porch with a couple of steps would create a real upgrade to your house's elevation. But be sure and get a professional to design it and have it constructed.

"Painted brick is really in style right now."

Natural brick never goes out of style. Painted brick has before, and will again.

"Are there bricks in another, less visible, part of the house that you could scavenge (rear of the house)?"

Possible? Sure. Getting an insurance company to pay for that? No way.

I would never mix stone and brick on that house .I do not think that house can handle a double door I think I would remove all the brick from that side and have siding installed there with the porch that you were thinking of maybe. Or remove the brick from the bottom of the window up and repace with siding.

Bossyvossy's idea will work! Your multi-colored brick has a base color and then several special colors. Experiment first, and you will see that you can selectively sponge paint on bricks to make them a close match to the other special colors. Then just have your patching done with a brick that matches your base color and sponge them randomly to blend with the existing pattern. (You could also calm down the whole blend in the same way.) To me, this is by far the easiest and least disruptive approach.

Painting the brick is a terrible idea. The best paint job won't match in 6 months, let alone a year and will look awful the second it's done.

Who buys a brick home and paints it anyways?

Match it as well as you can and then do a German Smear on the entire house. This would be a good time to upgrade to larger square columns. Here's a before and after of German Smear.

Sorry,but I don't think that spotty brick is attractive at all, and would love the idea of new brick for the complete front. Give the house a facelift, as opposed to doing a patch job, which may not look that good in the end. If you need new windows, might be a good time to consider it.

Totally agree with not mixing brick with stone. I've yet to see it look right. The German Smear might be an option.

So sorry this happened! A friend of ours had this happen when an elderly man drove his motor home into her home. The damage was horrible but thankfully no one was hurt.

Yikes! Sorry this happened! How scary.

I like the idea of a front door with a single side lite, and adding a small porch.

I vote against introducing another material such as stone.

A new door with sidelite was my thought as well. Maybe this will help you visualize it.

Remove all brick between door and window. Pay a couple of labors $1 each to clean mortor off old brick. You can match one or more main colors to make up for broken brick.