It's quite an attractive house. What do you anticipate will be your budget for exterior changes after you finish the interior and backyard renovations?

IMO the brick is not dating your house. The arch over the entry and the round topped windows do, but really, this is not an unattractive house. I don't see how there would be anything to be gained by removing the arches. It would be very expensive. You don't show the color of your siding. Maybe changing the siding is all you need for a refresh. I like the black front door too, so I think you only need to change it if you want a different style or the existing one isn't functioning well.

I don't see anything wrong with the house itself, although we can't see the siding and maybe that could use a refresh. What I see is some very stiff looking and not particularly attractive landscaping. I think a lusher and more relaxed looking landscape design would do wonders for this house.

This is on the BrickandBatten website and is very similar to your house style. The dark trim and windows, updated light fixtures and more modern landscaping with dark mulch work well with the brick. A big difference is how much more curb appeal you would gain by installing a path from the front door to the street. Also, it doesn't include trees like you have which opens it up. Consider either limbing up the trees so they aren't blocking the view of the house or removing one. Our neighbor lost two large diseased trees which was distressing at the time but after updating their landscape, the home gained much more visibility and presence without the trees and it's now a showstopper.

Your home is very lovely! Is it possible to replace the double doors with a single and sidelights? I would go with new, casual landscaping…nothing that is shaped!

Please do NOT paint your brick!

Those round top windows are what's dating your house, not the brick, which doesn't look orange to me, it looks like regular red brick. The windows scream 1990s-2000s. We had two of them in our vacation home when we built it in 1993, and we've since replaced them with normal rectangular windows. MUCH better look.

Swap the double-door with a modern pivot or oversized single door with a slim sidelight

Keep the red brick but power wash, then add black trim around doors and windows for contrast.

Replace the lantern-style sconces with sleek, linear wall lights in matte black or bronze.
Consider up-lighting the trees and adding a few path lights for nighttime curb appeal.

Keep the symmetry, but simplify — choose fewer shrub types with clean shapes.

Add modern planters by the front door with tall ornamental grass or boxwoods.

Thsi brick is STUNNING do nothing that is $$$$$$$

paint the trim a dark bronze color and it will modernize it.

but olease do not paint over that brick

It's the arched windows that looks dated. The brick is classic.

Like the other brick home go dk brown trim and it will look updated

Your brick is BEAUTIFUL and classic -- it would be criminal to paint it.

Have you painted the brick yet?

I see you are also planning ”massive” interior renovations. It would be interesting to see the interior - and to get a sense of what those massive renovations will be.

Also, what is a ”2020-esque home” ?

You do not understand what you have with this house. It’s a stately brick house. Arches and all. (btw, arches are ”back”... they’re all over the place. You can look it up.)

Personally, I absolutely love brick houses - and especially red brick (or anything close to it. )

Don’t get me wrong, if someone has the money to burn on unnecessary renovations, I think its great. Contractors and suppliers have more money to feed their families, and to buy nice cars.

But I just don’t like seeing another fairly classic house bite the dust.

So just in case you haven't demolished the facade yet - this is what I would do. (Maybe minus the shutters... AI threw those in, without my permission. :)

The house looks fine but the clunky brick trim around the trees is distracting and not helping the trees.