I do like the lime wash look. Or you could go other way with mid century with those windows

Whether you paint it or lime wash, I believe you should repair brick and re-point the joints.

This one is so much like your place

Very cute house! What jumps out to me first is the two retaining walls not matching! I think the solid colour examples Irene posted above would nicely modernize your house.

Thanks :) We actually just removed the an identical wall on the right. (just hidden behind bushes in the before picture below) The walls and windows were covered with overgrown bushes. We are in the process of tearing out the small one by the walkway too, it is broken and almost covering/leaning over half the walkway. We ran out of stones, but will match as soon as we get more, and go across soon. We will be getting rid of the entire wall on the left at some point, (not retaining anything but our view lol) or maybe lowering it to reveal part of the courtyard behind it. Also, getting rid of the overgrown holly tree bushes behind it too, just taking things one thing at a time. Here is a before photo from a few weeks ago. We also leveled the yard a the yard a little better since then, fixed some sprinklers, and replaced some sod.

Next up is to finish ripping out the small leaning retaining wall, replacing/continuing with the stones, windows (hoping for casement so there is no mid bar), low growing landscaping in front of the windows, and trying to scrub the mortar off the house where the old wall used to be fixed to it, OR painting/mortar washing the whole house. As mentioned in a reply to my original post, I could go modern, which I had actually already been thinking about, since this is an 80's contemporary home. I just can't figure out what color or treatment to do with the brick... Any more thoughts/suggestions/ideas on how to pull that off would be much appreciated!! Thank you guys :)

Some option

Wow, thanks Celery! Love that!