Like @Sabrina Alfin Interiors suggestions and Remove the shutters & trim back the shrubs.

I like your color choice. Think about keeping the ironwork as a nod to the period. I would remove the shutters and update the landscaping.

Great house!

Can you paint your windows?

Nice house…love the brick! I agree with the above comments. Definitely no shutters, especially on double windows.

Taupe and bronze are my favorite combo with red brick to modernize ranch house.

Can anything be done about the downspout by the front entry?

I am not a fan of the pale green with your style of house. To me it is more of a cottage-country look and while it suits the house posted by @Sabrina Alfin Interiors, it does not suit yours.

I'm in Toronto and we have a lot of orange brick houses build in the same era as yours. The best looking refreshed exteriors replace the white trim with dark colours. Charcoal, bronze, dark brown, even navy. One house has an eggplant coloured door that looks great.

Can your windows be painted or are they vinyl?

Definitely no shutters.

Can you post a closer picture of the fancy grille at either end of your peak? From what I can see, I love it. It's an authentic MCM detail and I would not remove them if they are still in good shape. Pierced screens and breeze block walls are classic MCM features - embrace them instead of trying to make your house something it is not. You'll end up with a more attractive result.

Your evergreen shrubs have outlived their beauty and need to be replaced. The bare legs at the bottom are unattractive and can't be fixed. New landscaping would give you a big bang for the buck. Going forward, prune your evergreens in a cone shape, not a ball, and you'll avoid that problem. You could go for a MCM style and add some grasses too.

I'd paint the downspout the same dark colour as the siding.

Thank you for your feedback.

The important thing to keep in mind, is that you want the color to look good with the brick. That is more important than if it is 'updated' or 'modern' or any other adjective. I think a green would look good, but it should definitely lean green, and not the current darling gray-green, with the empasis on the gray.

BTW, most shrubs can be rejuvinated by hard pruning. Without knowing what, or even where, these shrubs are, it is impossible to say whether or not it will work for those.

Color theory says blue family and green family work great with orange family. You can change the overall effect by changing the intensity (orange/dark blue, orange/pale blue, same with green instead of blue.) look at the color directly opposite orange and move over 1 family to left or right, so orange/eggplant, orange/light purple can work. You can also combine orange with a different color family (orange/dark brown, orange/tan, orange/yellow). You have many options, and it comes down to your taste, your house, your interior color scheme, and the overall street and neighborhood feel.

Your colour choice will also depend on whether you like the orange colour and want it to pop, or if you want to tone it down somewhat. If you want it to pop, choose a colour across from it on the colour wheel. Those are the cool colours. If you don't want that, choose something like a warm dark brown.

@mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY) I agree it would be good to know what the shrubs are. My experience with hard pruning of evergreens is with yews. Hard pruning worked to reshape the upper parts, even when I cut into the old wood. But it did not work to fill in bare areas closer to the bottom.

I've never had evergreens that shot up from the root after hard pruning, like a lilac would do. But I'm in Canada so maybe there are some southern evergreens that would that.

I've known several people who cut yews back to about 9" and had them resprout. How much closer to the ground than that do you really need?

Without a location, or closer pictures, I'm not totally convinced those shrubs are evergreens. It's just a too absolute thing to say without an ID.

@mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY) Maybe the OP will come back and fill us in about what the shrubs are. Since the grass in the photo is brown and tree is bare of leaves but the shrubs still have leaves, I assumed they are evergreens. Where I live the yews are the most common ones to clip into shapes like that.

Having yews resprout from a short stub did not work for me, but I believe you that this was successful for several people you know. Just stating what did and did not work for me.