Can you post a picture taken closer to the house so we can see the brick? From a distance, this house doesn't look very MCM. The hip roof is working against that.

If you pull out all those poorly placed shrubs that have been cut into cubes, limewash the brick a solid color you could push it more to MCM.

The roof is tough to work with.

I'm thinking a dark gray solid limewash

Closer pic of the front.

I was thinking something like this

Your inspiration photo is not mid century. It’s 2024 flip. Don’t do that. Your yellow brick looks original- can you take more photos of the house than the one you have shared?

Now that you have shown the overall home and placement... take a few close up phots.

If your brick is dingy, a powerwash should do the trick, sandblasting isn't needed. I think the brick is a warm color and nice. Your landscaping could use a reboot.

Both your inspo pic and Beverly's before and after white brick are deceptive. In Beverly's pair, any house is going to look a lot better on a sunny day with grass and landscaping compared to a dreary day with oddly dyed much for a yard. Your inspo pic is enhanced with warm light in the windows and lighting that is not normal. These are enticing images, not actual pictures of houses. You won't achieve either look.

Power wash the brick. You may be shocked at what color is there. We power washed our house at 10 years old and it got so much brighter.

Semantics here but Mid-Century and Mid-Century Modern are different. Your house is already Mid-Century with some modern elements like the vertical windows.

I really like the brown trim. Use that color for the soffits and trim above the windows. Paint the garage door that color too.

Keep some of the shaped plantings and replace them with ornamental grasses for an updated look and something that gives some motion in the breeze.

I love your use of white gravel, again a Mid-Century touch. So use even more of that in other areas and keep it fresh looking by removing the leaves before they pile up.

I forgot to mention I really like the current brick and roof colors together.

Thanks for the like. I don't have software but I can draw lines. Hard to nail down your color with my color picker tool but you can visualize a darker trim if you squint lol.

If this seems too dark you can use a slighly lighter version of your gutters and they will coordinate.

I used AI to try and envision your house and landscape.

First get rid of all that shped greenery no way does that work for the look you want. I can barely see the house so the brick IMO is MCM and I think painting it devalues the house .The roof is modern but not really MCM the landscpaing can do amazing things to change the look of a home and I like the idea of darker window trim too. This is one of my faves for MCM landscpaing and no reason why you cannot have that idea along with just modern plans too . I do not think this was flip but a nicelt designed modern home . I dislike shaped greenery unless you have a full time gardener it beins to look bad quickly ,.

I hope the op comes back and posts recent close up photos…

Photos that enlarge without a lot of mostly white background would be very useful.

Additional pics

New modern front door without the arch light painted a great color (I love turquoise with that color brick), paint the gutters and downspouts white (they are trim not an accent), remove the current meatball landscaping and add landscaping with varied color, height, and texture.

I think darker trim, which @tracefloyd suggested is a good idea. Pick a rich brown that works with the brick after a power wash. Then a door color will be easier to choose. The garage doors can also be the rich brown. And turquoise for the front door feels very on point for MCM.

The shrubs are eating your house. Find a good landscape designer and put all that full sun to work. You could have some gorgeous gardens ( including vegetables ) instead of all of that law

Lawn

I'd call it 1980 Contemporary. Go with the flow, make the inside as Mid Century as you like with furnishings.

Please forget the "turquoise" . Get a single pane glass front door, wood trim. All glass, wood frame, let light into the interior..,,,,,,Save turquoise for the water in the Bahamas, where it belongs.

Mega landscaping to suit the you home you HAVE.: )

I'd paint the brick in a heartbeat.....but that's me.

Major update! All shrubs removed and rock put down. I’d like to put small shrubs and grasses down. Not sure how to design it though. I heard plant things in 3’s

Wow, that is a huge change. I had to look twice to see that it was the same view in both photos.

I'm not use to seeing mid-century modern rendered mostly in brick. Guess that is what is throwing me. The house does look better with the existing shrubs removed. Would suggest you replant though. Will actually suggest you hire a landscape architect or a landscaping company that has a designer on staff.

Hire a designer, and wrong order of operations with the gravel. That should have gone at the end after the plantings. Maybe you put weed cloth under so it can be scraped off?

The house would look good in Charcoal with the white trim.

I like the idea of plants randomly placed in the white rock with a few boulders. You can just dig a hole for each plant without disturbing the gravel.

Thanks for the like. Here are some tall Native grasses and some plants and small trees with colorful foliage to mix in with some greenery similar to my renderings. Your local nursery will carry varieties for your growing Zone.

Limeglow or All Gold Juniper

Purple or Red Barberry

Dwarf Purple Leaf Plum and with pink flowers in Spring.

Dwarf Japanes Maple, green or red.

Pink Muhly Grass

Indian Grass

Switchgrass

Big Bluestem Grass

Dwarf Blue Spruce

Euonymus

Creeping or Bush Rosemary, green with blue flowers

Creeping Thyme, green with purple or blue flowers.

Sunshine Dwarf Ligustrum.

Purple or Rose Fountain Grass.

Blue Fescue

Purple Flax

There are products for brick other than paint that breathe and will not peel over time or trap moisture like paint.

Go to a Garden Center and ask for help. Every planting zone has bushes that work well and live long lives, so get advice locally.

@tracedloyd - I think you’re speaking of Romabio. It’s a limewash that you can add color to and is better for a brick house than paint.

I actually power washed some of the brick and it’s looking nice. I’m not sold on painting or modifying the brick yet. I’d like to landscape and touch up the gutters and maybe a new front door.

Yellow brick and yellow stone are absolutely MCM era.

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Note the low landscaping here that enance the low slung MCM lines:

Start researching MCM landscaping:

Wow, just saw your update. Your house is great. Hopefully you have the budget to hire a landscape designer who will help you come up with a long-term landscaping plan you can install over time that suits your growing zone, light and water conditions. tracyfloyd's hardscaping mix of rocks and plants looks fantastic. You need a plan, though.

Head over to gardenweb.com, Houzz's garden centered website. Here's just one page on MCM landscaping:

https://www.houzz.com/magazine/nail-your-curb-appeal-midcentury-style-stsetivw-vs~68271358

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/query/mcm-landscaping

Here's a thread on Pinterest with lots of MCM landscaping ideas just to get your eye trained a bit:

https://www.pinterest.com/heather_haskett/mid-century-landscape/

Love, love your place.

MCM is more about foliage color than flowers.

I find it helpful to choose a color palette so everything feels serene and cohesive.

Any number of choices in color but limit to two colors plus green as the neutral.

Blue and Pink

Yellow and Purple

Orange and Blue

Blue and Yellow

Etc etc.

Blue/gray foliage: Lamb's Ear, Dusty Miller, Blue Agave, Dwarf Blue Spruce, Artemesia, Blue Fescue, Sages, Hosta, Succulents.

Orange foliage: Japanese Orange Sedge, Coral Bells, Orange Ninebark, Barberry Tangelo, Bush Honeysuckle Kodiak.

I covered yellows and purples and pinks in my previous list but do your research.

As stated, go to a local Nursery, not a big box store for plants that grow in your area. Keep mature size in mind for proper spacing when planting. Nurseries will send a pro out and offer free advice and planning if you buy your plants from them.

Independent nurseries often offer affordable design services, and will sometimes include discounts on plants if you purchase from them. I'd start there.

Looking closer at your house again, the dusty grays and pinks will get lost against the bright white rock and brick.

I think the vivid yellow and deep purple combo goes with the brick and roof as a nice color theme that holds its own. Add some pots with red pink and orange accent color.

Add the same planting bed at driveway entrance as a preview. Maybe an island in the lawn as well with the purple plum or red japanese maple for the lawn tree.

Here are just mostly green plants...also very nice look.

@tracefloyd thank you for these pics! These are great inspiration pics I can take to the nurseries in the area. I like the combination of purple plants with greenery.

Tracefloyd I appreciate these pics! These are great inspiration pics to take to the nurseries to get a plan going

Great house! hope you come back once in a while so we can live vicariously thru your progress - landscaping might feel expensive but it will give you a huge bang for your buck once installed

Many of us will be interested in the landscaping ideas you will get from your local pros. Ask about free design help. You would be a great Before & After showcase for any garden place.

Your house will look gorgeous with a garden that complements your architecture.

tracyfloyd's ideas are right on the money. One possible tweak to consider is to use red/brownish stones to mirror the roof.

What zone are you in? I'm curious about your choice to use white stone here. The surroundings look really lush but your stones look like they are xeriscaped for a southwestern climate. The pics tracyfloyd showed don't echo your surrounds. They look fine for a neighborhood with nothing but homes in the distant view. But, I think you need to tie your foundation planting into the look of your surroundings more. A lot of MCM home landscapes follow the lines of the home itself.

The house is in Michigan. It is my parents house that I grew up in. We’ve always had white rocks since at least 1974 and the house was built in 1966.

White gravel rock is very Mid-Century, and beautiful.