I like the above OK, but thought it looked better with the orig orange brick still intact - ie it becomes your accent color along with door (make it a darker redder orange) and raised bed. Don't know why everyone is so spooked by orange brick! In right context, its as beautiful as any other color.

One more photo of staircase and wall color.

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I came back to check on your progress. There's obviously more than one good solution to the house color issue. I rather like Groveraxle's first photo from June 17th at 11:36 a.m. That one had khaki colored siding with dark trim and the original orange bricks. Not sure about Boulder at the moment, but around here, there's getting to be a glut of dark gray houses. So you'll be ahead of the curve when that starts to look really boring and unimaginative.

this one nancy?

this one has a good pop to it for sure. i still like dark royal blue too i know everyone is telling me not to, but boulder is a funky place and i feel like it could work!

there's a neighborhood in boulder called the holiday neighborhood. i feel like this blue evokes that area's look for me. funky, eclectic, etc. https://www.google.com/search?biw=1440&bih=765&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=iIsKXf3hCsjwsQWonbrYDg&q=holiday+neighborhood+boulder+architecture&oq=holiday+neighborhood+boulder+architecture&gs_l=img.3...58391.59843..59908...0.0..0.74.620.9......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i30j0i24.Vy8VFU94d84

Welcome to Colorado! You'll love it here, if you don't already! It looks like you've got some great suggestions already, but one fun thing to do is go on Zillow and look at past and present houses for sale in your neighborhood. It's an easy way to peak and see what other people have done to remodel and update their homes.

I'm familiar with Boulder, but people don't want an eyesore in their neighborhood anywhere, which is what your house will be with that blue color. Any of the suggestions from people earlier using tans, taupes, browns, or greens, light or dark, could work with your brick. If you love that blue color, use it inside your home.

good idea. there was a home that was sold nearby, for reference.

This...

...takes a contemporary home and DEmodernizes it as much as possible, IMO.

Now this could work:

the blue im envisioning is a deeper blue. i agree that those two pictures are hideous and remind me of skeeter from the cartoon Doug.

this looks bad?

Yes, it does. The blue makes the brick look even more orange, and the blue does not fit with the style of the house. Stick with natural outdoor colors from the area.

Your house with neutral colors is so very Colorado. Blue, not so much. All this from a former CO girl who itches to return. (Louisville/Ft. Collins/Boulder)

What about a more grayed out / toned down - to - blend - with - nature blue/green gray.? Adding the previous picture for comparison to illustrate the difference - more subtle. BM “ Knoxville Gray “

Frankly Frank, blue and orange is a horrible combination in the context you're trying to use it. If it doesn't cause the neighbors to completely shun you, they will be slapping their heads and saying, "What were they thinking?"

yeah. i guess - i saw some houses near our short-term rental and they were doing the peach brick, blue siding thing and it didn't look terrible. looked funky. but those were smaller houses and this is a big one... and this neighborhood is much nicer.

Come to think of it, you are in Denver Bronco territory - you could just add a big Bronco decal to your house and embrace the blue and orange......... (kidding, of course)

lol. i see the broncos logo there on the roof.

what would the collective do for siding color if we kept the brick the current color?

are there ways for us to freshen the exterior without changing too much? i saw an off-white cream house with similar looking brick... didn't look terrible.

it might help to change the garage door to a nice wood....?

Your home is definitely an 80's contemporary and your interior staircase is classic to that period. A gray/green may be a nice complement to your orange based brick. This is BM Cushing Green next to an orange toned wood fireplace. I think it's a nice combination. https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/color-overview/find-your-color/color-a-room/1541/living-room-4?color=HC-125&source=%2Fen-us%2Fcolor-overview%2Ffind-your-color%2Fcolor-a-room%2F&combination=OC-24,2125-70,2125-70&room=1541

If you find you just can't work with the brick, look at Dyebrick. It's not the same as paint and won't harm the brick.

i do like that green. especially with a nice wood garage door... would fit decent with the orange brick. i think its quite fitting with the rest of the homes in the neighborhood.

i have a mockup of that

Frank, if your goal is for the house to not look terrible, that should be easy. It doesn't look terrible now. I don't know why you wouldn't want it to look as good as it possibly can within what will be a pretty constant paint budget. I have given you lots of iterations above with different colors of siding, trim, and bricks. I suggest you review all of them and narrow down your favorites.

I am usually one to say leave the bricks alone. In this case, I am all in favor not of painting, but of whitewashing or dying/staining them dark.

Now to be honest, your mockup skills kind of suck. Here is that Cushing green in two views:

It's not terrible, but I think there are much better versions among the renderings above. JMO

I did kind of a cream version for you earlier, BTW:

I don't think it looks as good as the color currently on the house.

Sometimes I wish we were offered a no,no,no buttton!

i think it might really help to change the garage door to a nice modern wood... it's a huge garage door that's very in your face.

i saw some interesting colors on a walk on university of colorado campus today. lots of peach brick there.

What color for front door? Black?

Love the garage door in groveraxles last post but a little darker on the house as in another post?https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/cd12aa3e0d0abcfb_9-4827/home-design.jpg

wow the photoshop ability here is amazing. looks real!

wood door + peach brick looks awesome, what would it look like if we kept the current color of the house? i feel the dark colors still arent working with the peach brick here. anyone else?

Here is the cedar garage door with the current colors of the house.

Frank, are you sure you're not color blind?

yeah doesnt work with the current colors. hm.

not color blind, just never really thought about colors.

do you think the dark grays work well groveraxle?

curious what this would look like, as cheryl said. its going to be either barf or great, one of the two :)

I think if you are wanting to bring in a more MCM look, the garage door is great plus match the entry door to it. I like the darker siding. it blends the roofline. when I think MCM its a low single level. groveraxle is a photoshop wiz

That color above is a blue-gray, very close to a blue I did earlier. There is NO blue that will work with that orange brick and brown roof.

This is a FACT, Frank. Blue and orange are complementary colors. That means when you put them together, they intensify each other. That is appropriate for a circus train, but not for your house.

Here are combinations I believe work, some better than others:

Hire yourself a color consultant, Frank. You've about exhausted me.

thanks groveraxle - appreciate all the photoshops. will update this thread once we make it happen.

I think the wood door is a great option with the brick. Your best bet is to get a few color samples and paint them on white poster board. Then you can see how they look up against the brick. Don't forget that our monitors may not be seeing the brick color accurately.

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I like the first picture in groveraxles last grouping of pictures

went to a color consultant today at our local preferred benjamin moore. basically came away saying beige. she liked the last one we arrived at as well with the new garage door and gray, said it works because it blends with the roof color well. she also mentioned that removing some of the front landscaping and the front tree might help the house from "disappearing" with all that gray.

partner isn't onboard with the gray though.

Of Grover's; #3, 4, 5

So the consultant said beige (hate to say I told you so waaaaayyyy back there...) but she liked gray? Did she choose the gray or did you suggest it?

Which gray?

i showed dark gray with the new garage door and she approved.

was playing around some more and found some really dark greens that work.

benjamin moore color called 'river rock'

I'm liking the dark greens. They blend in well with your surroundings. I think they would work well with a wood door. I believe Clopay has an option to try on doors.

Green is fine if it's a natural grayed olive green - not the brighter greens. River Rock looks good.

it does, but i have been advised that in colorado with the intense sun that dark colors don't work well, and can cause wood siding to warp.

currently, we are looking at a slightly darker shade of beige.... similar to what the current color is.

using the garage door is interesting - also walking around the neighborhood it appears that the new cool thing to do is to paint the soffits the same color as the trim.