a few more photos, please.

Is it in good shape? just a veneer or solid? By remodel, what are your hopes? a total overhaul? or a cosmetic curb appeal? Do you have a lawn between the wall and house? is that the street in the foreground?

Are you looking to just update the house? I think the stone is lovely! I would use paint to update the house and remove all the object adornments around the home. I would not touch the stone.

Can you post a picture of the entire front of the house, straight on, like the one you already posted.

Do you like your stone (I do)?

Depending on your budget, I'd consider beefing up your porch posts and redoing the railing but I'd have to see a wide shot to be sure.

Not seeing the entire front of the house here are my suggestions. You can do a whitewash on the stones to lighten them and give them a better tone, not so rusty brown. You can paint the stucco a warm white with wood trim and posts and install new semi-flush lights. The main thing to work on is the landscaping.

There are different techniques you can use on the rock face. Some are more labor intensive than others.

The stone is not bad, I would landscape and do a nicer railing and maybe beef up the posts first.

A better ( full ) picture of your home is needed, but from what little I can see I think good landscaping is the answer. BTW , I think painted stone, no matter what product you use, looks awful.

You have a LOT of stone, so I wouldn’t attempt painting or whitewashing it. The samples above (in my opinion) cheapen the look.

Toss the funky rustic decor (milk cans, old wooden flower box) and work on the porch structure itself. Bigger posts of natural cedar, perhaps, with new matching railings. Ditch the milk chocolate colored trim and choose a tan that blends with the stone. The picture below shows a stone house with cedar trim; see how well they work together?

We can’t see your front door. I wonder what it looks like.

Littlebug has the right idea.
Reduce the Yaba daba doo factor by using : less colors on post/railings,less "decor"pieces.
Consider matching house rocks with those at curb with romabio.
Simplify the landscape,avoid fiddly small areas.

That stone is fabulous! It would be criminal to try to change it. You just need to lean into the funky cottage vibe with landscaping and some variable plant color, and draping plants.

Here’s a few more pictures

Thank you all for some of this feedback on my I’m loving the ideas. I was thinking of a modern farm house loom with whiite but this it may just not fit this house

I agree that you can't achieve a Modern Farmhouse look here, but IMO what you have is much more interesting. It looks like you really need a landscaping refresh. Engage a local firm to get a design. You can install it over time if the price is too daunting up front. I don't like the brown garage door, either. Look at the picture Barbara C zone posted of a house with similar stone where they used a lighter trim color. I don't know what you are interested in changing, but no matter what, consider the stone as given and use colors from it for the body color of the house and trim. If the colors are more harmonious the stone won't be as objectionable.

Looks like you are at least on a ridge if not in the mountains; embrace modern mountain instead of modern farmhouse.

Such a great house, I would simplify and freshen the home as suggested and go lush/crazy with landscaping - my first priority would be the dirt area right in front, a local nursery would be so helpful in giving you a plan as @kandrewspa recommended

What would be a modern mountain look?

Can you give us an idea of where you live? Colorado mountain style is little different from CA or NM mountain style. I'm not getting a CO Rockies vibe from your surroundings but of course I could be wrong.

Pretty rock, I wouldn't change it. Also keep in mind that is almost no maintenance right now, maybe needs a wash. If you do any painting, glazing, smearing, and so on to the rock you will need to maintain that new finish just like any other outdoor cladding. And once you do it, you can never get back to the original stone.

This is in California

farmhouse isn't the answer.

I would consider choosing a paint color from the stone, the beige, rust, or even gray that you like and paint everything a light version of that color, siding, trims and all.

For me, it's the contrasts that don't look pleasing, all the brown accents.

Brown is fine, if everything is brown, but the trims that are painted aren't 'special' enough to highlight. these SW colors would be my first options to sample. Unifying the color will make the stone the feature and your foliage soften it.

I am a fan of natural stone, and yours is very attractive. Is the stone at the very front different from the one on the house, or does it just look different because it is shaded?

My house has natural stone too, and like yours it has lots of colour variations. We have a light stucco too, and brown trim. But it is harder than it looks to find the right colours. We hired a decorator to choose our exact paint colours, and I'm glad we did.

I asked her about picking a colour from the stone, and she said that sometimes that works but it's not always the best choice and you need to know which one to choose, because you're taking a tiny portion of the stone's colour and multiplying it to a huge area. She's right, there's a house in our neighbourhood where they picked a warm beige from the stone and it looks really oddly pink as the colour of all their stucco.

Browns and beige/creams are difficult. I think the brown of your garage door clashes with your stone, it's too red and too bright. But the brown of your shed door is a very good colour with the stone, more gray/muted. I might choose a darker colour for your stucco so the large area of stucco on the right is less prominent, and so the stucco doesn't contrast as much with the stone. You'd be getting more into the grey-beiges.

I'd get a pro to come see your house in person and help choose the right colours for your home.

Nice house.

Modern mountain would be clean lines with a rustic mountain vibe, but not too rustic. You actually have the perfect house for it.

And maybe you would need a metal roof.🤗

Now that I see the entire house, here's a visual of my suggestions and I would leave the stone as is.

You can also add some detail on the gable.

It strikes me as a Spanish style stone house, which totally fits California. Embrace that style. Your roof eaves fit that style too. Embrace it, don't try to hide it. Was it built in the 1930s? Cute dog.

Here's one in Carmel. Notice the beefier posts on the porch. You could add some detail to the top with a cross piece like this one. I like your garage doors. I think the just need to be cleaned up. If in the budget, replace the windows and the metal railing with something that fits the overall look. The stucco seems very yellow, try a color that blends with the stone better.

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You house has some of the look of a Green and Green brothers house. They practiced architecture in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Will suggest that you research their homes and emulate that sort of look. Would specifically ask you to look at their Gamble house as there are similarities to your home.

The stone looks much like Palos Verdes stone which was popular in the Los Angeles area about the time your house was built. It was often used in dramatic modern houses and custom ranch houses. Here is a link to an extensive landscaping project (65 photos) with a retaining wall in rock colors similar to yours.

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Charcoal house in the San Francisco area:

Natural stone is beautiful - you are blessed to have it - leave it as it is.

Leave the stone alone. Paint the stucco and use landscaping as others suggested. Southwest styling would fit well. Maybe even bulk up the posts and remove the railing.

Your house is a mid century ranch. I'd keep the stone natural and go with a California mid century desert vibe. No grass. Use hardy plants that will survive in your microclimate. Definitely not farmhouse. Check out Pinterest and Instagram for ideas.

Change house color to pail buttery yellow, which will also work well with the stone, change out the porch railings to wood or at least something that looks wood from the road, maybe white or dark green, both would work with the house color and the stone work. For the front door a rich dark rust color. Maybe make the columns a little thicker too. Whatever you do, DO NOT PAINT OR WHITE WASH THE STONE!!! Painting or white washing the stone will end up being extra maintenance and expense if you hire someone who knowns what they are going and even more maintenance if you do it yourself and do not prep it perfectly, but in either case, it will need to be redone every few years. Stucco while in theory it neutralizes the stonework and lasts longer than paint, is also much more expensive than just landscaping.

You can easily soften the stone wall up front, plenty of things can trail over that front wall, just don't make the mistake of just getting one plant to trail over the wall, get a variety, different heights and colors so people are looking at the landscape not the wall otherwise you will draw more attention to it more than making the stone less of a focal point. Get small perennials that will be cheaper and may need the help of annuals the first year, but they will get bigger each year, and maybe some every green stuff to also trail over it. for in front of the house a mix of tall growing perennial flowers and shrubs to hide it, and after a few years you will not even see it. Stick with warmer tones for the flowers, reds, yellows, oranges, purples that are more red than blue. which work with the coloring of the stone. Biggest mistake people make with landscaping is not really matching it to the house, houses that have more cool tones don't look as good if the dominant colors in the landscape are warm tones, your stone work is. warm tone, so it would look better with a warm tone color on the wall and warmer colors in the land scape Not saying you can not have any cool tones if your house is more geared towards warm tones, but generally if your house is cool tone in colors, warm tones should be more specks of color here and there not the bulk of the color and vice versa.

Maybe explain the style you want for the whole not just the stone . IMO a great MCM ranch home with fab stone work to help bring the whole to life . NO pto painting the stone that would be a disaster and non reverseable . BTW NO FARMHOUSE