Please post a picture of the house

I added a photo to my OP.

There has been more work done since this was taken, like siding. Unfortunately, we have to go with T1-11 siding for now. Eventually, we want to stucco, but T1-11 is it until a later date.

We have not done the trim yet. Waiting until we pain the siding and then add the trim. We are doing all of the work ourselves.

At some point, we are going to add a room to the side facing us and a wrap-around porch to break the boxy feel.

Right now, the focus is paint.

I added a possible exterior paint overlay in the photo. The real color is darker than on the screen. Any thoughts on trim color with a color like this? Darker or lighter?

I think you still want to stain the plywood not paint it. Even if you use a solid body stain rather than transparent. Are you going to have a continuous seam around the house because of the plywood? If so you might want to consider a two tone color scheme.

Thank you for your comment.

We now have a ledger plate about one foot down from the top windows on the two faces that are shown in the photo. We did the ledger plate in order to add the porch when we get to it. that way we don't have to go back and do it later. That being said, I don't think we would be able to pull off the two-toned look with "rule of thirds". Meaning 2/3 one color and 1/3 another.

I think a darker color may work better. I like the suggestion for black ...
otherwise maybe a deeper green.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will give that a try. I have been looking quite a lot at colors online, but it is very hard to find any houses like this one to give me a real idea. At this point, I am feeling a little frustrated that we decided on white for our windows. But we got a deal on them.

And thanks for the validation about the trim and roof color. I'll be sure to pass that along to my husband. ;-)

One option for trim is a color signficantly darker than the siding. The paint you chose for your siding is a formula of colors, which the paint store can tell you. It probably includes some dark pigments, so you can increase those pigments and see if you like the color. Equally, it probably includes some yellow pigments. You can increase those and get a yellow/tan color.

Colors made of the same pigments go well together. If you want to choose an existing trim color, ask for the pigments and choose the yellow/tan/whatver that is made from one or more of the same pigments in your siding color.

HU-187528210, Thank you,

I updated my post with another color we have been looking at. It is darker. And in real life has more gray.

Sigrid,

Thank you for that tip. I will definitely start experimenting with colors with the same pigments on the computer program.

Cut the house visually in half makes things more interesting IMO

Would you do something like this?

The paint, when in the can should probably look almost black...
I think in your setting it would look LOVELY

HU-187528210,

I'm not sure that we would go that dark, although the ones you posted are lovely. I do like the contrast.

Thank you,

BeverlyFLADeziner,

I had been exploring doing two colors early on but was having a hard time visualizing where we would draw the line. The barge rafters are a little higher than where you marked the photo, but might still work. Once we add our concrete porch it would put the color split at about half and half.

Thank you for the suggestion and for giving me a visual representation of what you meant. It really helps.

in the gable portion, could you do a cedar shake or board/batten like this gable?

similar color metal roof. too bad you don't have bronze windows. the bronze/rust wood tones look nice

I wouldn't use a dark trim right next to the dark roof. it will disappear. use a light shade of the copper green color, or try this Butterfield.

Hi Beth,

I do like shakes on the gable end of some of the houses around here. Our pitch is very low, and I wonder if it would look funny with such a small section having shakes. At this point, we are sticking with the t1-11 until in a few years we can stucco. By that time, the house will have another room off the lower floor and also a porch, so it will look like a totally different house.

Thank you so much for the color palettes!

If you did the two tone like Beverly suggested, I think the shake gable would be proportionate. All one solid color seems like it's going to make the gable look small, regardless. You could also do some horizontal composite wood planks.

I agree that shakes on the gable end would look proportionate with a two-tone. Thanks, Beth!