Your brick is actually a classic mid century modern style so it's really the thing on your house that is modern. Please don't paint it or remove it, work with it.

Don't know your budget but here's a few relatively budget friendly ideas:

Remove the skirt on your bow window roof. Change the roof to something that blends into the stone or compliments it.

Change the garage door to something more modern or at the very least, change the window grids to something square or remove them completely. They likely will snap out.

Get rid of the sidewalk to nowhere or do plantings in front of it to hide it. That actually might be the best solution so things don't encroach on the house.

Paint the blue a color that harmonizes with the stone and brick.

Roof? I think darker but I'm not a color expert so I'll leave that to others.

Your door isn't really noticeable so I'd put my funds other places first.

Expanding on great advice tozmo1 gave you:

--Current roof color is fine and harmonizes with the stone. If you want more contrast, then a warm brown would work.

--Different landscaping can do wonders for your very nice house.

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--Leave brick, which works well with your stone.

--White garage door overwhelms house. Paint garage door, all trim, and downspouts a taupe that harmonizes with your stone.

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--Add modern copper house numbers to the front.

--Eventually replace bow window with flat window. Both the garage door and that bow window are the wrong style for your house.

Inspiration photos with taupe trim color palettes that would work with your house, too:

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Some other inspiration palettes, in a gray direction, that could work with your house. Do factor in the color of your driveway when you choose roof and garage door and trim color. Colors need to work with stone and your driveway. Below is a light stone house, dark gray roof, gray driveway:

Your house may have been built in the 20th c but I don't think you have a mid-century modern house. You have a cottage, with brick porch supports and otherwise stone veneer pasted onto it. A bay window pasted on later.

Were it my house I would rip out the concrete on the ground in front of the house and on the right side of the house create a trellis-folly to support growing vines up the stone and all around the bay window, 5/6ths of the way to the roofline. I might even go so far as to use trellises that had a large circle or square or open arch in the center that framed the window -- like this except right at the house, perhaps creating an oval opening closed at the bottom, not a door-like arch.

If the brick has never been painted I would leave it alone. If it is already painted, I think I would repaint it in a color like raisin or ink or maybe pink and put a flowers-and-stones-and-brick garden in front of it. I would make the porch interior a useful and enjoyable place to sit, including screening it against bugs if necessary, and well-lit. If I screened the porch, I'd consider a design for the screen supports that inverted the peak of the roofline to a V.

Then I'd think about what color to paint the door.

Don't know if that's '''modern'' but it would be what I wanted to look at.

The brick is great. The fake stone is pretty apparent.

It's a charming cottage that could be fixed but maybe modernized in the wrong direction.

The house should be brought back to what it originally might have been.

I believe you can take out the plastic inserts in your garage door windows.

What year was this house built? I’m guessing late ’40s to mid ‘50s?

The stone and bay window might be original to the house, although the original windows could’ve had grids of some sort.

The other material is not brick, it’s a type of stone, and I definitely wouldn’t paint it.

Lots of great color ideas by others, as well as landscaping ideas. That’s what this charming house needs — it would make a huge difference.

It would be nice if the window trim could be toned down from stark white, but I’m guessing they can’t be painted or replaced. Ditto that style of garage door.

We don’t know your budget, etc.

ETA: Can you show a close up of the front door?

One reason I wonder if the bay is original (not the glass itself, but the footprint) is that the cute scalloped metal piece over it is clearly from the mid-century … ’40s to early ’60s. And the stone follows the shape on the bottom, instead of just a bay window being added onto the existing house.

I don’t think that style top would’ve been used later on.

I’ve seen houses similar to this in historic neighborhoods in my area (D/FW), all built in the ’40s and ’50s. I’ve also seen similar on Long Island, where my DH is from, but those usually had siding in the mix. Bay/bow windows are very common up there on post-war houses.

Thank you all great suggestions! the house is located in a historic neighborhood built in 1935, apparently ”updated in 1943”

I painted the brick on the inside as you can see in the picture , now I regret it! i do love white paint.

Im leaning towards updating the garage door! it will make a huge difference. Also removing window skirt is a great idea , add landscaping too. Screen door has to go… replacing the stone might get pricey , just looking to bring more life to the house. Thank you for making me love the brick!

Keep the same roof color. Paint everything that is paintable the same color as the stone but a few shades darker. It will have a nice contrast yet remain seamless. If removing the sidewalk to nowhere is not in the budget, I'd get very large planters and pull then nearly up to the edge of the grass and fill them with greenery.

I agree that landscaping and garage door color are two changes that would make a big impact. Personally I’m not fond of the stone, and probably would paint it or do a Romabio treatment. I think I would select a gray/charcoal color to paint the stone and roof in the same color. Keep the garage door the same color as the brick. I would also paint the window frames the color of the brick as well as the downspouts and peak.

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I really like the landscaping & garage door that tozmo mocked up!

Adding to that...

* I think a dark roof, about the color of the darkest parts of the stones, would be nice.

* Moving your house #'s to the vertical brick piller.

* Painting the downspout to blend with the brick & stone

* Since the salmon color tree goes so well, I repeated it on the door.

I wanted to see what painting the bay & other window frames would look like also in a charcoal color, I like it too!

Like the idea of the house numbers on the brick thanks! Darker tone definitely adds contrast .
There’s not another downspout , the angle looks weird that’s just the wall (blue)

It looks like some of the house has stucco. I am guessing you live in California. I would stucco the brick and leave the stone.

You should be able to remove the top design in the garage door. If it is like mine, then your remove it from the inside. I few screws and it will come right out and look so much better. I used goo gone to get rid of the residue from the inserts.

Is it possible to remove the center part of the bricks and beef up the posts on each side? You could wrap the post in stucco or wood. That would open up your porch. That would be a structural question.

I would paint the house a similar color to the stone. Then I would paint the trim, windows, and garage door a dark brown. The front door could be almost any color.

If you want a softer look to your house, then go with what Beverly above suggested. Do a beige house and white trim. Are the window wood or vinyl?