a relatively simple fix would be painting the shingles and vertical trim pieces over it the same beige as the horizontal siding below it. If you are willing to paint the brick do it in the same beige. Leave the stone as is. Leave the dark trim as is except on the shingle siding part. That would decrease the amount of different colors and do away with the "tudor" feeling. It would retain the craftsman feel. You might update the garage doors with stain, or paint them to match the beige siding.

I would paint everything except the stone. A dark color would be more modern, but I don’t know how it would work with the stone. Keep the body and trim all the same color.

IMO too uch of everything on that exterior so first I would keep the brick and remove all the rest of the stone and whatever that nmess is on the garge area. You need new garage doors , chunkier posts no stone remove the tudor type trim on the upper floor and new windows no grids Then paint everyhing except the brick.

Thanks for.your responses so I'm thinking:

1. Take out everything in 3 Gables and change to stucco ( a light colour to match the stone on pillars).

 2. Second floor change siding and wood around windows to stucco (same stucco colour we use on Gables) and put molding around all windows if the house. 

 3. Brick on second floor - also change to stucco or stain the brick with the same or very similar colour to the stucco colour. How do you think the stucco and the brick will look beside eachother being the same colour? 

4. Bottom level - brick on porch also change to all stucco or stain brick? Cut stone pillars in half on porch to height of railing and then add light colour pillar/column right to the top of porch roof? Do you think this would look better I feel existing stone pillars are too thick/wide?

5. All the brown alluminum on top of stone pillars will be changed to the same molding as pillars all the way across the roof to the garage and will do a matching full length pillar/ column to cover the existing dark brown by the garage also to match the molding of the stone pillars on the porch.

6. Leave existing garage doors and maybe change existing front dorr or what colour should I have it painted? Oak colour to match garage doors?

Again I'm open to all feedback/suggestions.

Or second option would be to make Gables and the second level all stucco (meaning over red brick with stucco too) and then stain red brick on bottom level to similar colour as stucco on similar floor so that the house is not all stucco?

I'd keep the knees up there, but those trim boards that are lined up with them was the "bridge too far" for me. I like the suggestions above.

It looks like a house that was originally, the right side, and someone added on to, without matching the existing part of the house. The part with the cream siding, should have been brick to match the right side, and the bottom instead of all that stone around the garage doors should have also been brick to match the right side, as it is, nothing on the left half, matches the right half, not even the trim around the windows. I would do my very best to try to match that left side to the right side of the house. If you could do that, the shakes in the gables would look fine as is, and so would the pillars.

How about this?

Which app do you use to do that @hoissaon ? That would be so helpful?

Here are other variations of colours on the exact same model as our house....thoughts? I still feel lightening up the colours or making everything one colour still doesn't make the house stand out, look grand or elegant. It makes it look so blah/dull