If I were in your shoes, I would add a walkway from the front door to the sidewalk and change out the front door for a glass door or a more modern/contemporary or MCM type door. Bring the focus to the front door by painting it a bright color or a beautiful door like the insp pics below.

New landscaping is important to improving the exterior appeal. I'm not sure what color would work with your gable end...perhaps a urbane bronze or leave the current color of your gable. Just focus on the front door, landscaping and walkway and no one will notice the gable end.

^This style for your front entry would amp up the exterior IMO.

^Another great style door for your home

^Or a glass door like this one.

^A wide walkway to the front door is important for a 'welcome home' feeling. This pic above is a totally different style, but you can see that the bright colored, amazing front door and warm walkway are key to this home's appeal, along with the clean, modern landscaping (which would work well for your home).

Beverly's brown might be the only way to go if you honestly don't want to touch the brick. But I'd be inclined to a brick stain, so you can neutralize the pink for real, even if you only shift the shade a bit darker or a bit grayer...

I love the color of your brick. You can stain it, but I wouldn't. I'd just look for a better color for the siding, maybe a deep charcoal.

Agree with Denita about the door and the landscaping.

I agree, not painting the brick, new door and landscaping, and a pretty window treatment at the large window. I assume that is not a sheet at the window?

One pink brick house coming up!

Light trim is SW Agreeable Gray, darker trim is SW Worldly Gray and door is Fabulous Grape. The before was dreary 70s brown and covered with overgrown shrubs and trees.

The whole story is here in my blog: Bringing the House into the Light

I like your brick. And painting it would only create more maintenance for you from what I hear. A new door or door color would help as well as changing the color of the siding.

I would probably do a low mass planting along the wall under the picture window, specimen plants on the other side.

Windows! I would replace, if it is in your budget, if not paint them black, as well as the trim and front door.

Thanks for the ideas! And love the alterations/options in the pictures. We have a pro landscaper helping us and no sheet, just cream curtains :-)

Different wavelength... Put the siding as close to the color of the brick as possible, so that it visually doesn't cut the house height. Add trim of some kind around the door, which gives it more presence, maybe also around the windows as well. A darkish band separating the brick from the siding brings your eye up. Hope that makes sense. Several photoshops, each with progressively more options.

Dark band only

Trim around door, + dark band raised higher. House looks taller, and front door has more presence. Could of course change door color, also!

Same as above but added more trim around the windows as well.

Hope that helps!