In dark grey is also nice:

I do like that as well! What program are you using where you can pick colors and add them to any house? It's amazing!

Thanks @lisedv !

I just do it in PowerPoint. The colours are difficult to suggest judging only by pictures because colours differ from one computer to the other. We can suggest colours but they all need to be tested on site to make sure they blend with your roof, bricks, etc. Also, when choosing your colour, keep in mind that the colour will usually look lighter once painted on the house because of the bright outdoors.

I loved RedRyder's almost navy picture with white trim above. Paint the whole house including brick. Lots of white trim. Roof will appear less blue by contrast and look gray,

Magnolia has a dark brown. I think it might capture your brick and make it pop, and then trim the edges and corners in something creamy.

• I‘ve never been a fan of blue houses , however, i think the landscaping is what bothers me the most. Since its a rental probalbly fairly low maintenance landscaping , assuming you will provide a gardening service.

I love the inspiration photo with a navy blue color, because it complements the roof, is on trend and really pops. Agree the current landscaping looks very tired and needs refreshing. With navy blue paint and new plantings, the exterior would be ready to go!

Sherwin Williams Waterloo or Needlepoint Navy would be perfect. Here is a mockup from Brick & Batten:

https://www.brickandbatten.com/review-hale-navy-benjamin-moore/

The Hale Navy is gorgeous.

How much more money will you get in rent by making these upgrades? Are you an experienced landlord or is this a new experience for you? After having rental properties for many years now, I often take the approach of if something is not broken, don't fix it. Once you start the upgrade process, something else always looks worse so scope creep leads to spending more money and time. 

In my experience, homeowners buy charm and updated materials. Renters rent location, size, and condition and quality of kitchen, bathrooms, and laundry. I have found interior improvements, not exterior appearance, to be  more valuable for rentals.

Hello @Lyndee Lee STR and LTR Rentals and consulting on STR is what I do for a living. For about 13 years now. I specialize in Luxury STRs. Being that this home is in a very nice area, on a golf course, "in" the forest yet with a stunning city view, I will more than likely make it a STR. My remodel budget is $35k for this home and I'll recoup that in the 1st year. Since it will probably be a STR, it needs to pop on the listing page, and this old fashion blue ain't it! lol It needs to be "dramatic" and "classy"

And thank you @esupple and again to @lisedv... you both understood the assignment.

I'm not feeling the dark blues, but loving the charcoals...

So now it's down to "Black", "White" and dark "Gray".

Adding some more pics from different angles:

The Brick is much darker "beige/brown" (?) than I previously thought.

So my question now is... do y'all think the roof has a lot of blue or is the blue house making the roof look blue?

Hmmmm.... ????

First guess is it's a neutral gray that belongs to the green-yellow hue family shingle that someone mistook for "blue undertones" because they didn't know what they didn't know.

Either way, it doesn't work with that 'soul patch' of brick hanging off the front the house.

@Lori Sawaya "soul patch of brick".... lol.... I'm dead!

Removing BLUE from the selection process... what color would you recommend?

I'd like it to look "updated/trendy"... I think using "modern" was the wrong word. It needs to "pop" in ads.

Thanks!

Benjamin Moore Chelsea Gray is a warm medium-dark gray that would complement the brick, but not look super dark as there is a fair amount of shade.

https://www.brickandbatten.com/best-gray-paint-colors-2021/

Thank you @esupple... As I mentioned on one of my earlier posts, (this thread is getting very convoluted, I know,) I'm going to PAINT the brick. But I can definitely see what you're going for and it's very nice. After seeing the property think I'm going to turn it into a STR, so I need a more POP for the websites.

I think now I'm down to very dark gray or white.... Love the idea of black, but after giving it some thought, I think some people might find it off putting. Thanks again!

Given any chance at all, white looks dirty go with gray

BM Hale Navy or SW Urban Bronze are still my favorites. I don’t like a brown house and I think any shade of brown-beige will make the roof look worse. Garage painted is the same as the house, and the brick (but find Romabio and tint it to match or you’ll have peeling paint in a couple of years.)

A black house is so modern, but as a rental, I’d be worried about possibly turning people off.

Did you see today’s article on blue houses? They list the colors! Great timing @Ja Doe.

The color of the house you posted is exactly the right one.Gorgeous.

Agree with you on both points @RedRyder... Urban Bronze would be stunning and it would be a turn off as a rental.

Now, for the Blues..... LET IT GO! Hate Blue, Blue is not happening, stop trying to make it happen! :-) LOL

Seriously, thanks for the tips!

@ladytulip I keep coming back to that color (if you're referring to the "creamy gray/white" in my original post...) now the problem is trying to figure out what color is it?

I like this ”creamy gray/white” color too. I painted a large swath on the upper left corner with a color matched from the SW Anew gray sample from the chart with circles, and it seems like a close match. However, compared the the larger sample, it is a very different hue. When in the sun, though, it might be just right.

I really like the above creamy gray combo but the house has black windows wich makes everything pop. I don't think you'd get that effect with the white existing windows on the blue house.

@ffpalms I THINK it's SW "Oyster Gray" .... Found the website it's from: https://graceinmyspace.com/best-exterior-white-paint-colors/

Can you "paint" my Blue house with that color? Thank you again!

@lisedv Agreed. Pretty sure I've decided on this color....

BUT NOW... I need to help sorting out the white trim dilemma. I'm thinking of adding "black/charcoal" "shutters" and painting the drain pipes as well.

Black/Charcoal garage.... Thoughts ????

Thanks!

Make sure to sample the paint you think you want on your own house on a sunny day. Then visit it on a cloudy day. The outside light changes every color.

I do like those light color choices too. 😊

How about Sherwin Oyster White with warm gray shutters ?

I love the idea of SW Oyster White with warm gray shutters. I found these photos using Oyster White and SW Fawn Brindle.

I would love to see how it looks with your pale gray roof, but unfortunately, I do not posess the skill.

Here's your house in all white including bricks:

And all white with light grey shutters and trim:

@lisedv- those mock ups are really nice!

Lisedv’ s mock ups seem to expose the fact that the house doesn’t have the room for properly sized shutters. Also, the roof appears blue. I love the house in white, though - it looks stately. I’m now wondering if some of the trim , maybe just around the windows, should be painted the same gray color as the roof, rather than a warm gray. Perhaps then the roof would appear to be gray instead of pale blue.

I tried. Had to give up. Though I do think the gray now looks gray.

@ffpalms You're brilliant ! That looks amazing! Thank you so, so much !

What does everyone think of making the accent and garage "black/very dark charcoal" ?

They did that to one of the houses down the street from me and they ended up putting it on the front cover of a magazine. They had also made some trim and planter boxes in a medium stain brown color. It looks really good

@esupple I really like the 3rd one down... think I want to go darker with trim and shutters.

Thanks so much!

I’d love to see a photo of the house down the street that made it onto a magazine cover. My concern is that it would make the house seem cut in two, since the garage is nearly as wide as the house.

Gosh... I wish there was just "roof paint"... how is it no one has invited this yet?

We're sending people to Mars soon... but no roof paint?

Frustrating!

< ok, rant over > lol

How about a gray garage door with updated lighting?

Oh, @esupple I really like the 2nd one... do you know what actual color that is?

Do y'all think it's too dark for the roof?

Good grief, it's not a blue OR gray roof. It's a blue-gray. That means you need a gray that has blue tones - as opposed to purple, brown, or green tones or any other of the nuances that a gray house paint will have. Dont worry, it wont have enough blue to look blue - it will look definitely, unmistakably GRAY in relation to the BLUE-GRAY roof. It just wont give you any of the weird clashing undertones you would get if you chose the wrong gray. HTH!

Any colour you decide on has to be tested on site because it's impossible to judge a colour simply from a photo on a computer. The roof does look blue in the photos but you had previously mentioned it didn't have a blue undertone.

Sherwin Williams matches this garage photo to Peppercorn SW 7674

https://www.brickandbatten.com/sherwin-williams-peppercorn/

This is a STR people just care about the photo Do you think they’re going to spend even one minute thinking ”the roof doesn’t look good with the house color?” Do you think the photo can’t be altered?? Don’t you think the inside matters way more than the outside?

Forget the paint because if you don’t fix the landscaping, folks are going to keep scrolling on by

Where is this house anyway?? because I know plenty of golf course communities where no one ever wants to vacation because there’s nothing to do there when it’s too cold for golf or the beach. The restaurants and shops are closed because Covid is still among us Things are expensive and my own house and community has lots to offer at a lesser price

@cda1028... I'm not sure what your issue is, but I've been doing LTR and STRs for a very long time. I have been extremely successful, people pay me to consult on getting their STR business started. I have rented to celebrities, top politicians and my rentals have been used to film movies, TV shows and commercials in. Bottom line...I know what I'm doing.

I never said I was not going to address the landscaping nor the inside. I came unto to Houzz as I know it attracts the top professionals in the Design arena. The thread I started was merely about getting the advice from others about EXTERIOR PAINT colors.. I know where my strengths and weaknesses lay. Picking paint colors has always been one of my weaknesses and as my Designer is on maternity leave for the next 6 months, I thought I'd pop on here see if I can get the opinions of some other professionals and even others who are good at this sort of thing. Knowing how to run a business does not make me a Designer. Everyone here has been EXTREMELY helpful.

The reason I'm not revealing the exact location is because I know there are many people online who are "unbalanced". Some people feel comfortable putting their locations online, some do not. I fall into the latter category. After reading your very "aggressive" message to me, once again I feel that I've made the correct decision.

Best of luck with your rental and no need to feel like I am competition to you... as I am 100% sure you are no competition to me.

the question is the same. where is this house? because different geographical areas require different approaches if you’ve been successful so long, why do you need advice at all?

Did I say I had a rental?

I like all the white options but you are asking about the garage. I would not do a dark gray on the garage doors. Medium-to-light gray in the “cool” family, as @Debbie Downer pointed out. I doubt a potential renter will notice the roof color if the vertical surfaces are newly painted and cohesive. If you want to paint the trim, again soft gray on the cooler end of the spectrum. A dark gray front door would work! That will fulfill your dark gray need!

@RedRyder A dark gray front door... Love that idea... Plus grays are so easy for my crew to take care of, it hides a lot of dust.

Are you thinking along the lines of SW "Web Gray"/ "Peppercorn" gray or lending towards "Dovetail"/"Dorian Gray".

Thanks again!

I like Red Ryder’s suggestion that a dark gray front door is all you need. I like the color of the very dark, nearly black shadows on the roof. To my eye, a dark garage door emphasizes its size in relation to the house. When everything is painted white it reads as all house.

More like “Lazy Gray” and “Morning Fog”. Front door can move down the strip or go to Steely Gray. They are “blue”er than Dorian Gray.

@esupple... Just noticed your "Peppercorn" comment and link.... I LOVE that color. I have an accent wall in one of my Billiard rooms painted that color. When my Designer picked it out, I thought she had lost the plot... but she was right, it looks amazing!

Again, it brings back the debate that some might find a "black" house off putting... but I love the drama it would bring to pictures on the websites.

Do you think it's a "light" enough "black" to not look too "sinister" ?

@Debbie Downer You're probably right... I might be overthinking the Blue in the roof. This is why I love looking at paint colors, but hate picking them... I'm just terrible at it. I always pick the wrong color and then have to pay my Designer to pick a new one and repaint. Thank you.

@lisedv Yes, you are correct, I would definitely pick up a bunch of paint samples and do large areas and look at them in different lights before spending $1000 on gallons and gallons of paint. Maybe I'll post the samples on here. Thanks again!

@RedRyder I do like the "Steely Gray". Thank you.

@ffpalms I didn't consider that a dark garage with make the house look out of proportion.

Thanks for the tip!