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Just posted, thank you :)

What are you trying to achieve with the minor changes?

I would take the shutters off and leave them off. Maybe add a row of windows to the garage door or add hardware to give it some interest. Or maybe a wood door.

The garage doors are fine as is.
I agree adding windows will add more than paint.

For the shutters, if you like them and are keeping, I’d probably paint them a deep blue color. But I agree they aren’t necessary.

I’d also paint the front door to match whatever you do to the shutters.

And maybe add hardware to the garage door.

Lovely home!!

You only have shutters on two of the windows and those aren’t sized correctly for the windows- remove them. The garage doors are big blanks so replacing them with new garage doors with windows would be great but even the stick on ‘windows’ would help. Finally the brick placement is a bit random and heavy- whitewashing it would tie it into the siding more. You already have two kinds of cladding don’t add a third (board and batten)

Thank you all for the suggestions! we just want to modernize the outside a little. We are getting a new garage door. We like the look of the wood grain garage doors, but we don’t know if the house is going to look off with all the brown on one side and not much else to tie it to the rest (except painting the front door).