Pick one of the brownish colors from the brick,paint all the yellowish stucco that color;

paint the downspout the same color.Leave the window frames white.

Repaint /restain the balcony structure that same brownish color or a complementary shade.

Reposition the building numbers horizontally( you may want to use a more modern font)

Consider changing the color of those numbers to white.

Your could select a green to contrast the red/brown.

Thanks. I’m also interested in giving the face some different texture. I’m wondering if I could do away with the brick altogether and do some wood side panels, either vertically or along bottom half?

Wood rots.

You could consider HardiBoard with is concrete board designed to look like wood.

Here's another source of all manner of exterior materials.

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The building already looks nice, it just looks very cold and unwelcoming. Not due to the brick or the paint. It just looks unfriendly to me. Some nice landscaping and potted plants that flower set around on all that concrete, would improve it considerably.

Can you also post the side of the building where we can see the entrance doors to the apartments?

The brick give you texture. The yellow stucco doesn't look good with it. Wood panels along the bottom will look odd. I'd paint the balcony black to match the stairs. I'd paint the stucco blue. I'd paint the downspout to match the stucco and the brick. Even if you just paint the bottom of the downspout a red that only approximates the color of the brick, it will disappear.

Then, I'd plant up the little rectangle in front of the building with low-growing flowering shrubs and perennials. I can't advise without your zone and I'm better at New England than California or Texas.

Here's an idea...

Paint the stucco and white limewash the bricks...

I think replacing the brick with siding would look cheap. If you change the yellow to a color present in the brick it would look a lot better.

Here's a house that reminds me of yours if you're willing to repaint. That yellow is all wrong.

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With the palette above, you can keep the current wood steps and porches as well as the brick trim for texture and color. Pull out "taupiest " red/brown from the brick to paint the house. Gutters should be /copperbrown, not white. Add some large copper vertical house numbers.

I can't tell if the rectangle in front is grass or what? Create a planting bed with low shrubs, perennial plantings, and grasses with reddish tones. Fill in with brown/reddish mulch. Or hardscaping--anything to create a visual separation from the sidewalk. See @lisedv's photo below for the right kind of planting. Get a small garden center to help you choose the right kind of plants for your zone, water, and light conditions.

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Thanks for the feedback! It was so plain but with your comments I’m starting to see potential. Here is a Side view

The brick provides texture but it is the paint that needs to be updated.

@lisedv, does your rendering suggest whitewashing the brick?

Agree with @CAGE Design Build. It's the paint, not the brick that needs a facelift. And the landscaping.

@Sherry Tsai

Yes to your question, whitewashing the bricks (just added as a comment to the sketch).

If you can take a full front view of the side (not at an angle but strait on in front of that wall) where the door are I'd have a better idea of what that side could look like.

Because everything is a different color (brick, paint, stairs, windows, balcony, security doors, doors) it looks like it was tacked on after the fact without any plan in place. I’d reduce the number of colors to two, plus the black stairs since you don’t want to paint metal. And use that black for the numbers and exterior lights.

IMO any coating you put on brick makes the brick another thing needing mainteanace and in this casee the best part of the building. A nice sage green for the siding amke sure the downsput is the same color and some landscaping to make it look like a home not some cheap motel . Large vertical house numbers THis is one of my fave colors with brick I would do wider trim on the windows Some big planters filled with nice seasonal plants ( hire someone to water and deadh ead if you do not live there ) I think a redo the exterior will aslo make it more possible to increase the rent a bit . The deck, stairs and railing all one color too.

The brick is just on the front and doesn’t wrap around the building?

When that is the case, I don’t think the brick should stand out bc for me it emphasizes the ”stuck on look” and loudly communicates the building is not made of brick

I would choose a lighter body color (I wouldn't want high contrast with the white windows since there isn't much trim) and i’d paint or whitewash the bricks to add texture to the facade but blend in more

agree that landscaping will help a TON

One more vote for some landscaping. Does anyone use the current sidewalk right in front of the building? (Are those pipes permanent? I can really tell what they are.) I'd be tempted to remove it and plant some nice boxwood or whatever works in your climate near the foundation - but with enough room to grow. If the walkway is used and needed, you could put a new walkway (concrete, bluestone, flagstone steppers, whatever) in front of the shrubs.

You could skip trying to change the brick and focus on paint elsewhere.