You could paint the garage and bumped out widow area one color and the rest another color while ignoring the tudor accents if you don't like those. Definitely keep the white tips, soffit, fascia, window trim, and railing white.

Leave the fascia, corner boards, window and door trim white, and paint the balance of the "Connect Four" boards the siding color. Paint the garage door and the "transom" area a color to blend in with the bricks, not the current blue.

If you painted the tudor trim several shades lighter than the siding, it would still be a feature, but much more subtle. The vast majority of paint is pigment stirred (or shaken) into white paint. You just reduce the amount of pigment, such as 50% less pigment. It's better to have the paint store do this than to mix it yourself.

I'd leave the non-Tudor-style trim a white or cream.

Connect four boards! Perfect description! 😀 Definitely painting the garage door and considering the bricks too which are’t super attractive.

Yes Trim look busy. So I would go for it with the same color as body just 1-2 tones lighter.

What millworkman said - most of the extraneous trim the same color as the siding which you change to something that looks nice with your brick. That blue is not working for you.

I think you’re chasing your tail now trying to figure out what color you should paint the trim. The body of the house should never have been painted blue in the first place so that left a tough call for the trim. i would re-paint the body of the house cream and the trim a dark tan coordinating with the brick and roof.

I would have to remove the boards between the garage and house where they don't align with the rest of the lines. The misalignment would drive me bonkers.

OMG - Jennifer Hogan - you took the words out of my mouth! The first thought I had when I saw the house and all the white boards = "Why would the boards not match up exactly with the ones directly above??"

Jennifer (OP) - do the boards really not line up OR is it because of the angle of the photo + the recess of the garage? Even if they do line up IRL, it looks way too busy.

Has the house just been painted recently?

Is there brick anywhere else on the house other than along the left and right side of the garage doors? I know that many people are anti brick painting - however, I wouldn't let that small amount of brick dictate which paint colors work/don't work for the rest of the body of the house.

House was freshly painted when we moved in several years ago. Not by us, but since we had other things to tackle inside, we decided to leave it alone, but we have always hated it. The white trim boards above the garage are not aligned which I agree is bizarre. I am not sure whether we can take them off without entering into a whole other siding project, but it’s worth asking! If I can’t go that direction, my hope is that with the monochrome paint it will be less noticeable. That is the only brick and I plan to leave that for last. When the blue is gone, maybe it will look better. I appreciate all the suggestions!!

I would paint the misaligned trim the same color as the house, and they wont be as noticable. I am not sure why someone put all that trim like that, so I assume, there is a good reason for it, so unless you are prepared to do new siding on the front exterior, I would just paint it all out, and when you are less busy with other things, and dont have inside stuff to do, then maybe remove the trim boards and see, why they are there. Hopefully, when you do that, you will find out, that they were just someones idea of dressing the house up a bit. LOL

I would remove all the extraneous trim on the garage, on the window to the right of the front door, and on the porch. Whatever color you paint--get a matching downspout to eliminate that white stripe too. Painting that trim won't help the misaligned mess. I have to believe it will all come right off.

Have you considered a lighter, complimentary color for the trim?

I think something like this would make the house look more Victorian.

Since you're doing the roof and repainting, there's a lot you can do to improve the proportions of the house, without too much fuss.

Overall the proportion of the house is very heavy on the left side, both because of the two stories, which is made even taller by the gable front. And it's the part that sticks forward. And it has lots of trim.

Houses generally look more welcoming when the emphasis is on the front door, and the right side with the front door is shorter/single story and set back.

To improve the proportions, de-emphasize the left side by having less ornamentation and darker colours, and emphasize the right side by using lighter colours and adding landscaping that comes forward. Here's where you want any ornamentation. Don't worry about the left side of the house looking plain. You want the eye to be drawn away from this side, over to the right side.

Not a fan of the blue but a different colour would look good at that level of darkness. Something that looks good with your new roof colour. Paint out or remove the wood trim. There is nothing Tudor about your house roofline or shape, and the addition of so much trim looks out of place. I'd also de-emphasize the too-small gable trim at the top. It's a Victorian or Craftsman detail that IMO looks out of place. Just paint it the same as the siding as it's probably complicated to remove.

Paint the garage and the siding up to the top of the brick, a few shades darker than the siding.

On the right side, add a contrasting front door colour and a contrasting railing colour.

The overall look of your house will be much improved by some substantial evergreen shrubs, to bring the right side of your house forward visually.