I really appreciate your feedback. Thank you.

I like that design, but it is too late to add anymore wood to the house. (The brown). And I cannot change the windows, as it would be too costly.

I just don't know why someone thought that staggering the windows was a good idea. Select a gray paint for the bottom of the wall.

You've got way too many things going on here. brick/stone/funky windows are all competing for the eye.

I'd make all the siding the same brownish color.

Is this a split entry? Wondering why the windows are so high compared to the front door.

Yes, a bi-level. The brown is a wood look glaze on smart siding. It is not possible to paint additional onto the house.

I'd still try to paint the minty section as close to that wood look color as possible.

Regardless of what you choose, the corner boards should be the same as the primary body color, not that wood look.

The windows are my husband's and my favorite part. A play off the old school wood entry doors. It's too bad that they take away from the character of the house, in your opinions.

If it's your favorite part, that's all that matters. Did you design this yourselves?

Yes. Well, they put more wood on than I expected, and the halcyon green looks gray on the sample, so that was a surprise. It's actually more of a blue color, so I'm hoping the contrast in grass will pull that out.

It's definitely not how I pictured it would look, so I'm not sure what to think about it.

How fun to design your own home.

I think you definitely need to paint the green, though.

Ok. Thanks. That's what I'm leaning toward, but thought I would put it on here and see if anyone had any other ideas to help. I appreciate your input. Thank you.

Neat house. I think the thing you are picking up on is that the color of the body of the home does not relate to either the stone or the roof. Charcoal or black makes it work and look really cool.

Thank you. I am beyond terrified to pick out another exterior color because this was such a costly mistake.

Do you have a couple color choices in mind?

I don't know if this is the best approach to finding paint colors, but I've used it in the past... Take some photos of your brick and your stone and use the sherwin williams ColorSnap app to try to pull out a dark gray color that is common to both.

Also.... paint big swatches on all sides of the house. And look at it in all light conditions.

Our previous house was a nice dark green/gray color, but during sunset throughout the summer the west side of the house took on a poopy color as the orange sun reflected on my dark green/gray. I hated it, but when selecting a paint color it never occurred to me what summer sunsets would do to dark green!

I will. That's definitely not something I would think to do.

The blue/green makes your house looked striped, not in a good way, because the lightest and brightest color is in between 2 darker duller colors. It really throws off the balance of the house. That bright color also pulls the eye away from the front door, which should be main focus of the house.

When the middle portion is a dull color (e.g. in the dark gray example above), then the wood-look brown part becomes the brightest part and the house looks more balanced. No more striped look, and the eye is drawn to the front door area.

Your roof line is not at all MCM, so the other MCM touches don't really come together so well. Forget the MCM and just focus on just getting a good balance between the different parts of the house, starting with painting the blue/green portion a dark gray or dark gray/brown as Rawket Girl showed.

Here are several charcoal and black color suggestions to get you started. But the best bet is to pick up all the paint chips you can find in colors similar to the dark color in your stone. Then get samples of several that are close matches to test on your home. All are Benjamin Moore paints.

My personal favorite complex dark brownish gray.

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This last one is from Sherwin Williams. My Mom used it on her trim...it is lovely on her Pacific NW style Redwood sided home.

I agree with Rawket girl. Dark will work nice with the roof and windows. It will make it contemporary, not mid century. Nice house. You are lucky.

The paint and wood is totally not well introduced into the front elevation of your house.It’s a bit hectic to repair such thing!
If you are not on budget replace the wood and paint by stone.
While if you are on budget replace the blue color by brightest color of the stone you have.
Even though the wood appearance will remain annoying ! (Not well designed)

I have a similar style house and had the stucco tinted with Escarpment by Benjamin Moore

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That is exactly how I see it. Thank you for explaining to me why.

Thank you Rawkit! I'll look into those.

You all have been very helpful. Thank you.

That's beautiful Leslie. Thanks for sharing.