Before you do anything else, paint the garage doors a color close to that of the brick. Also paint the white trim on the garage door.

Here’s a rough mock-up of the garage painted to martch the bricks. It needs some charm for curb appeal. How about a window box (painted to match your white trim) or small pergola similar to these examples?

Thanks to everyone for your input so far! It seems the consensus is that the garage door needs to be a darker color. Is it best for it to match the brick? Or would black, to match the shutters (and maybe a black front door and dark roof) be good?

Is a brightly-colored front door, like the green suggested by Dig Doug's Design, preferable to black or wood?

In the picture it doesn't look like the color of the siding is complementary with the brick. Hopefully it looks better in person since it's relatively new. While I agree that the garage door should be darker - the white is too much contrast - black might create a black hole effect. But in view of the unfortunate pairing of the siding with the brick, black might be your best option. Maybe someone can come along and photoshop that. Then you need a fullview storm door and black front door.

@kandrewspa You are absolutely right that the brick and siding are not complementary. The previous owners did not have an eye for colors- the interior of the home is just as bad. I wish I could replace the siding with a better color, but with it being new that feels wasteful.

I guess my options are 1) new siding, 2) paint the siding (this isn't recommended and I don't want to do this), 3) stain/paint the brick to a more complementary color, or 4) replace the brick with a complementary stone facade.

This house is not modern, and will not bend that way as is, I think you need to do things that fit the mold of the house. dont paint the garage the brick color. paint it black, and the front door add an eyebrow pergola over the garage, and increase the size of the shutters.

LOL - would love to see the colors inside. Not in our current house, but in the one we owned before, the previous owners had painted the dining room pumpkin orange over the chair rail and burgandy below. The front door was also orange and the shutters were eggplant purple. We probably got a better deal because of it, though. It was on the market a while. Paint is one of the easiest things to change.

Maybe the garage could be charcoal gray instead of black. Try a couple variations of dark gray and black against the brick and siding. Maybe SW Iron Ore? I am usually against painting brick, but I don't know how else you would solve the problem if you can't paint the siding. Replacing the brick with stone would be expensive. If you do decide to paint the brick, just be sure to use the right product. Romabio is popular with people on this forum.

Black is really harsh, I would go a gray or something complimentary to the brick color as DigDoug suggests.

You can dress up your existing garage door with door hardware.

You do need some color, so I'd paint the front door and also if possible, make it more visible with either a full window storm or a different front door.

Change the garage door color, change the front door color, work on the landscaping this fall. Don't put the big bucks into painting/liming brick or changing siding until you've lived with it a while. No matter what you do, you need landscaping. Makes a huge difference.

I honestly don't think the siding color is that bad. It is much better than if the previous owners had mindlessly slapped grey on the house. Some houses of that era had small overhangs to protect whoever had to open the garage door. That would put enough of a break between the two that the colors wouldn't matter. The green shutters I like, and I would paint the garage door to match them. Then the front door could be a brighter green.

To my mind, the big problem with the house is that usually these split levels are placed on more sloping ground. Right now, both the living rooms windows and the front door look like they are hanging in midair. So the land/hardscaping has to work to ground those. Allowing the greenery to grow a bit more, and plant something smaller in front would help. I'd also like to find room to put a small shrub between the walk and the driveway.

I like mad_gallica’s suggestion of a small overhang over the garage door because it wouldn’t require a green thumb!

Personally I would match the garage door to the siding and paint the trim around the garage door that same color as well.

Yes for pergola above garage doors. It brings some balance for exterior.

@Celery. Visualization, Rendering images

That looks great such a difference hope OP comes back to see it