Can you take a current photo? Landscape is difficult to evaluate under snow. It looks like the yard a quite shady when the leaves are on the trees.

which door is the one you want used? That one should have a wider path and a door color that draws attention while the secondary door should have a path that looks secondary, and the door color should match the siding.

I would choose a neutral warm color for the siding, that coordinates with the brick and roof. Paint the secondary door that same color so it blends with the siding. Paint the main door you want people to use in a deeper or brighter color. A larger landing area around the main door would be useful, also. I agree that we need a current photo.

I will get a current photo shortly for you. What do you think about painting the brick? If I decide to paint the brick, should i paint the brick and siding the same color or paint them different colors?

I would want to see a current photo to decide on brick. Generally, unless it is ugly, I prefer to leave brick unpainted.

Do a lot of research before you decide to paint the brick. It can become a maintenance nightmare, especially in cold climates such as yours. I would do everything you can to keep it.

Check out Romabio since you want to change the brick. I would begin with new doors that don't look so off-the-shelf/big box store-ish. Can the upper panel of the garage door take windows? Sometimes you can just switch the panels out. Your raised beds probably run too close to the house to have much effect. You don't really want soldierly lines of plants, but a more open and airy planting in deep beds. Its cheap to bust out the current ones so you can expand them to be deeper and curvy.

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See if you can find your house on Google maps. A picture with the roof color would be helpful. I think a tan in the same family as the roof would look good. I'd paint the secondary door the same color as the siding. I paint the front door a pop of color.

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Your house has great potential.

Do not paint the brick. Anything painted will, inevitably, need to be repainted.

Do paint the siding. Consider choosing a color that is not that different from the brick -- not a pale color that will emphasize that only part of the exterior is brick .. perhaps a medium brown or dark tan (without any pink or yellow hue). You could use either white or a darker shade of the same color as the siding for your window frames.

I agree that you should paint the "secondary" front door -- and its frame and the garage door -- the same color as the siding -- deflect any emphasis on it. Then do what you can to make the door that actually is your front entrance the focal point of the front of the house.

When your budget permits, you might consider adding a small entry hall or even a larger sun room or screened porch in front of "secondary" door and have the door from it opened toward the side facing the main entry door. If you add a 4'x4' entry hall, you could add an awning over the garage door by extending that same shed roof.

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What app do you use for the visualizer?

Love the gray!