Depends on what your goal is. If you want your house to look "updated", paint the brown beams taupe and the white stucco off white.

If you can remove the brown tudor-like crosshatching on the gables, then do that. Otherwise, paint them the same color as the gables so they disappear. It's a strange embellishment on a one story house. The brown trim on the gables that follows the roof line could stand to be a lighter color instead of brown. And Elaine is right, the white would look better if it were a creamy white because of the color of the brick - like the garage door.

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try a diff paint scheme. redo the posts (wrap w/cedar or a diff style)

bring in some hardscape for the pathway (like celery posted) and do something w/the landscape. The landscping will have a huge impact on the overall curb appea. paint will only go so far.

I like Celerys picture, except I would paint the gable portion exactly like this. You need the contrast w/dark and light.

That current reddish brown trim color isn't working. switch it out

try one of the light colors for the trim, and the sage colors for the stucco. or vice versa.

Caramel and the white would also work. I'd do a diff front door, but that's me.

these are all great accent colors to work with

think about painting the front porch w/a good cement paint. do a stencil over it. (look up 'stenciled front porch' to get ideas)

I like the darker trim on this home. try urbane bronze w/dover white. paint the garge doo a darker shade. add some hardware to it. do the front door in one of the copper colors

I really like the colors Celery. Visualization, Rendering images cam up with. Here is another option. I would not mess with taking the slats off. Just paint them so there is not such a high contrast.

I think you can retain the look of the center pieces but beef them up, removing all the skinny verticals and redoing the stucco. I would also remove the trim piece at the top of the posts and beef the posts up considerably.

See the idea of thicker pieces in the gable here.

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