Thank you. I will have to look up Pink Muhly.
My home faces South and I only have a few things that are in the yard that I really love.
I am very challenged in landscaping ideas and placement. I do know that there are quite a few plants that I really do not want in this yard.

I like the very pale pinkish tone on the bottom right photo, with complementary accents of silvery blue and white. The Pink Muhly looks great against this color from Benjamin Moore.

Is strawberry yogurt the color on the paint picture with the blue green. I am loving the contrast color. I also love the Pink Muhly plant.

Thank you.

I don’t know the paint colors on the photo. These are close matches on the Benjamin Moore color app.

Thank you ffpalms

Since you live in Californiia ( I live So Cal beach ) I know & have enlisted the services of independent garden centers for help. Many offer free design with purchase of a relatively low amount of $ spent. You can always pick & choose among their suggestions. As for color, I don’t believe that you’re limited to coastal or ”beachy” colors . Drive around your area to see what colors on houses appeal to you.

K Laurence I am going over next week and I think I will do that. I’ve been looking on Zillow at homes in the area and getting some ideas. Lots of them are close to the suggestions I’ve gotten here.

Thank you.

My sister lives on the Petaluma River and chose a sage type color for her house. All the neighbors copied her!

You could do washed out grays and browns on the house like a weathered cottage. You didn't say which beachy vibe you're going for. Sand dunes and driftwood...I like that vibe. Sonoma coast.

You're almost there on the landscaping. It reminds me of the beautiful grounds around Costanoa Lodge up the coast from Santa Cruz. They use gorgeous natives that are placed to be admired as you walk through the many paths.

Do like that. Lead the eye. I think you just need more defined areas laid out. More low growing ground cover for sure, and try to group the plants that you keep.

You need winding beach paths of bark and crushed granite or stepping stones, river rock, big beach rocks. A weathered bench and big earthen pots, and you need a weathered fence, some driftwood and small tree shaped into a windblown Monterery Cypress. The tree you have is not working.

Here is Costanoa:

It could be done DIY quite frugally.

I'm fond of Pride of Madeira (gets big) and Sea Lavender Statice. Hardy plants.

Hi!

Beach houses look great in a sage green (like Saybrook Sage from Benjamin Moore) or a light salmon (like Salmon Berry from Benjamin Moore). Reach out on my Houzz page if you need more advice.

I am not sure what the color is called, but always been fond of a very warm, bleached shell hue, more a white than in the red family, I don't want PINK. It is a beachy color, but not sure what it is called. I want to repaint my house and garages in this color again, it is a highly reflective color, almost a white, but I don't want white, white, I find that boring. I am at the Jersey shore and face directly south with lots of sun most of the year, so these beachy colors are my thing. I think my current color is Bermuda shell by Behr and it is very bleached, almost white, not pinkish at all but with warm under tones. Hope that helps.

We are on opposite sides of our USA. I know nothing about CA, as you wouldn't about Cape Cod. Could changing the mulch to white stone and painting the house a dark color work for you?

We are on opposite sides of our USA. I know nothing about CA, as you wouldn't about Cape Cod. Could changing the mulch to white stone and painting the house a dark color work for you?

I would do the exact style as the image below for your house. Do a light blueish gray for the house and a darker gray for the front door. Add some shutters to give the house some charm. Rip out all the the existing landscaping and go clean and simple with new landscaping. Create a bluestone or brick paver pathway that goes from the front door to the street and also connects to the driveway. Line the pathway with pretty flowes and put some nice simple bushes along the windows of the house. Fill in the rest of the front yard with grass or for lower maintaince pebble rock

Jaxon Haney Thank you. I’m playing with colors now in a app that lets me pick colors. I removed a lot of the landscape and searching plants and ground covers

I'm from California. It's makes a difference if the house is located in Northern California or Southern California, Here's something for either...

NorCal recommend dark Charcoal Gray for the house, the trim and garage.

SoCal same thing but in White. A White house.

The pastels, pale blues and pinks proposed are a little too quaint for the architecture.

Color would be reserved for the front door only.

...all of this is a concept I could further refine if you wish.

As far as the landscape, the gravel and rock yard proposed by Elcieg and Jaxon is a nice xeriscape Coastal look with a few beach grasses and a couple of ground covers. No lawn or cactus tho. Sparse for a nice open look. Much better than bark.

TraceFloyd thank you for responding. My home is in Morro Bay. Central California in San Luis Obispo County. I think the house style is what’s causing me problems. I have drove around town and have not seen anything that I like with my style home. I was leaning towards white but worried it would look very plain.

Your home is very similar to this house I found here on Houzz. I’ve heard this style referred to as Cinderella or storybook ranch. White can look good, but I believe landscaping is what will make the biggest improvement.

Some landscaping inspiration. You could do something similar on left side in front of brick planter.

Thanks for the like...I love Morrow Bay...who doesn't?

Yes, the idea was for the house to be plain. And the landscape.

@MarleenM just nailed it IMO with the white Storybook house, that shade of blue door, and simple landscapes....perfect for the Central Coast.

I would consider changing the gingerbread brackets and window box to plain...they don't read beachy. Maybe you could clad them.

This is interesting. I asked AI to create a white beach house with a blue door and beach grasses to show the concept.

Thank you tracefloyd for the pictures. I will start playing with these colors. I’ve removed a lot of the bushes and trees out front so that I can start adding more beachy type plants and bushes.

MarleneM I love that little sitting area. I actually removed the brick planter and think that I could probably fit a couple cute small chairs there. I am thinking about putting window Flower boxes below the front windows.
Thank you for your input.

Here’s a more current picture. We have taken out a lot of the bushes and plants.

Here is a rough sketch I made of your house in white and blue. Just a mock-up for concept. I added your new wood window boxes porch brackets. New porch and garage lamps.

I think the white house with white rock stands out from the background nicely.

Did my mockup post? Here it is again.

Thank you!! I don’t know how to add on window boxes to get a visual. I figured on once I added them that it would help give the house personality. Thank you very much.

My pleasure. I use draw software. You can see everthing is just shapes and screenshots I pasted in.

I like the white house white on white like this...

How about fog gray and sunshine yellow? Very nice.

Wood add-ons including wood trellis. You've got the board and batten on the garage so it's perfect.

UPDATE. WORK IN PROGRESS. HERE ARE THE CURRENT PICTURES. 1x6 T&G above the garage and front door. Also under the eves. Next I need landscaping ideas.

Gorgeous. Absolutely Stunning! Well done and congrats..I'm so pleased for you. It looks good in the fog and in the sun...perfect.

Thank You. It’s been a struggle. We kept changing colors and ideas. The door started out a dark navy blue but when we put up the Cedar T&G and stained it there were too many colors going on. I really wanted blue but it ended up looking good painted the redwood color.

xeriascape that joker use rock and id go with a citrus tree and plumeria along with wucculents and other low h20 plants

Brad Edward’s
Joker??

Delineate curved areas of gravel around your foundation plantings and boulders. Bark mulch outside the lines. A flagstone path. Plant various Sedums as groundcover in pleasing arrangements throughout.

Thank you TraceFloyd for your suggestions 🌺