Forgot the garage photo. Also added a picture of what the house used to look like.

While only your opinion matters, all in all, it is not horrible. I would not rush into repainting it. Look around more for inspiration. Learn paint undertones and what colors look best on your house‘s exposure.

Certain colors have a tendency to change drastically while others not as much.

Give yourself a break and tend to the other projects and come back with a fresh start.

I know lighting can really change things. Your second photo makes the charcoal appear to blend with what looks like charcoal in the bricks. Regarding green, a gray/green might work like this one.

These are all from Ben Moore. You have to test large patches of the paint on the house different times of day to see what you think. Trust me, I know!

I‘d say no to a black garage door, unless you want it pulling the main focus. Glad you removed the shutters.

BM Nantucket Gray (don't go by the gray in the name, it looks green-ish when used outside). It goes well with orange/red.

I actually quite like it. I think you could add black in plant pots etc to add another colour but I wouldn’t repaint anything.

I agree with eld6161, live with it awhile, take your time. It really isn’t as bad as you might think. I kind of like it. . My 2 cents worth, my two favorite BM greens are ”Dry Sage” & ”Sage Mountain” but everyone sees colors differently in my experience.

What colour is the paint? We landed in BM storm for our house after trying several panels in different lights. Many greys lean purple or green we found. Our house is south west facing.

@WestCoast Hopeful We are moving into winter so my porch looks bare haha! I usually do have black pots by the door and hanging baskets. I will have winter ones out soon. It looks so bare and cold right now!

@chloebud So keep the garage door whatever colour I paint the siding? Shutters — Thanks! I learned a lot about shutters and this was not the appropriate scenario for them. It changed the house so much when we took them off. I much prefer the house without.

@WestCoast Hopeful it’s Woodcliff Lake. A brown that leans charcoal. Any colour looks different on every side of my house unfortunately. I like it in the back but again, dislike in the front. And I think I care more about the front than anything else.

I would leave it till spring at least we this point. See if it grows on you and then adjust. If you like the charcoal look then choose a colour like that. I think it’s well suited for your house but I also don’t mind what you have. Green is tougher to get right i think. We did paint big cardboard panels and taped them up on the house when deciding. Different times of day and different sides of house. You do want to love it in the end

The color selected could have leaned a bit more gray, but I like what you have. It's so very more distictive than what was there before.

The top and bottom pics where it looks greenish are great. The middle pic looks greyish and I don't like that as much. The color really does change. I'd leave as is and see if it grows on you. The only thing that I don't love is the posts. They look odd to me now against the black window and door. I don't think that painting them black is quite right, but something feels odd about them.

They could be bulked up a bit. They look small

“So keep the garage door whatever colour I paint the siding?”

I would. It can look nice if you pull focus to your front door/entry area vs the garage.

Yes, to garage door the color of the siding. I dont think the color is bad, although, I wont say, I really like it either. It does blend nicely with the brick though, at least in certain lighting. However, since it is now the end of October, and Holidays will be here soon, I would just leave it, and wait until spring, when its a better time to paint, and decide then, what you want to do. I do like some sage greens, but, I dont like grayed down versions, to me, they look dirty. It wont be that long, and it will be spring, and by then, you can think about it some more.

@cat_ky Oh yes there’s nothing I can do about it now. Unfortunately I already had to stop painting due to the cold weather (I live up North in Canada) Definitely have to leave it until spring at this point. But I want to be able to start on it asap in the spring whether I finish with this colour or start over.

@WestCoast Hopeful Yes, I will likely go with a 6x6. They’re poorly placed. There also used to be a steel railing on the porch so that’s likely why they look so odd now without. It was one of the first things I ripped off haha it was so outdated and ugly. And with the bay window it made it hard to move around. In the warm weather we have black chairs, a small table and little Adirondack chairs for my kids up there. Plus pots and hanging baskets etc.

Where in Canada are you? We are in Vancouver.

@Kendrah There used to be a railing across it so with that in place, they blended and went well. But we took that thing off as soon as we moved in. At this point it needs bulkier posts (6x6) for them to look right and stand out as they should. They’re just straight ugly posts with no decorative accents to them.

West coast Hopeful I’m in Northeast BC.

You can all scream at me, but I'm going to say it........

This is friendlier/ cheerier??

We can't even begin to count how many "dated" colonials exist

Unless you are willing to address the "lidded" look? They are what they are, and the new attempt to slap up black trim everywhere these days, drives me nothing short of insane. The omnipresent dim entries on all of them.......Guaranteed first words: Oh My! Don't even think of painting the BRICK, there's no going back! So what?!

Why a craftsman style entry door on this house? For me, it's the first thing to go, and next are the windowless garage doors as soon as resources allow.

Would I paint the brick? Sue me, yes. Beef up the posts? That too.

Forgive AI below and most all transformations these days ARE that, and not for what this house should be. ............but.

I'm not leaning into the muddy green/gray and black.

Sorry, you can all beat me up.: )

IMO it is the wrong shade of green too yellow to work well with brick This is a much better choice

I Like it. I think once you get plantings in the front garden and maybe some accent chairs on the porch it will look and feel a lot different. You are in the fall where lighting in Canada can be a bit more golden and warm toned so you are only seeing it at this time of year. I bet it will look a lot nicer in the rest of the seasons.

I’m with you, @Ashley R. I don’t like it either.

You say you don’t mind it on the other sides of your house but you dislike it on the front the most? So, assumably your house has brick only on the front. That’s the issue I have - it looks bad with the brick.

It’s just too deep and dark. I like the green sample that Patricia posted just above with brick. A pale sage green.

I too am with Ashley, I don't like it even on the garage door, too drab.

It’s funny we all see it as a green when Ashley has described it as a brown that reads charcoal in some lights.

The second picture from the top shows the garage doors and above the brick, in a darker gray color. I actually like that color. It seems to blend in with the brick and looks very nice. I would paint the house that charcoal gray color, rather than green. I think, it is a much better look for the house.

The color looks great with your brick. However, the dark trim doesn't. I'd paint the window trim a warm cream.

cat_ky It’s all the same colour! That’s my struggle. It looks that charcoal grey on the garage and at the back of the house, but up top it looks completely different!

@WestCoast Hopeful I definitely do see the green up top myself. It’s such a chameleon colour. It’s very frustrating. And I suspect I’m going to have this issue with any colour I choose.

In agreement with Sigrid above, I don’t mind the siding color but in combo with the black windows it feels closed off and severe.

@Patricia Colwell Consulting Its not even green haha! It’s Woodcliff Lake by BM. It’s the sun that makes it look that way. I can see it too, and I’m not a fan. The rest of the house it leans charcoal grey and it’s nice! I do like that lighter green you shared. I’ve seen it often and am learning towards something like that.

This is the BM page about the colour. It’s pretty accurate.

https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/980/woodcliff-lake

@Sigrid With the exception of the bay window, the windows up top are brand new. There’s no trim, that’s the window itself. Definitely not painting them. This is why I also think a lighter siding colour would go better. I do not like this colour with the black. It does pop it just looks bad.

*doesn’t

I can’t find the whole picture but first pic was my original inspiration picture. I thought the colour was a green initially but it was Ancient Grey. Second pic is an option of a lighter green with the orange-y brick. This brick is such a pain in my butt.

@JAN MOYER Oh I know the new colour definitely isn’t cheerier. While the old colour was bad, it was much better in my opinion. Hopefully that wasn’t confused. The door was replaced by the previous owner. I get it doesn’t go style wise but it’s not money I’m willing to spend when there’s otherwise nothing wrong with it. I absolutely agree on windows in a new garage door, there will be! I don’t want to go white. It’s so sharp and I do love it but it’s dusty where I live and I have 4 kids, so I worry about keeping the back of the house clean. I just replaced the upper windows so I’m stuck with the black at this point. I don’t want to paint them. (Bay window is painted, however. It’s old and the next window to get replaced)

There used to be an ugly railing between the posts and that’s why they look exceptionally horrible haha! We are replacing them with 6x6 wood posts. For some reason that whole underneath ceiling section was built weird. It isn’t flush across, likely due to a beam that should be up in the roof. But it can be and we are going to reconfigure it. Hopefully it will help open it up a bit under there! Do you have any other recommendations for design, colour etc?

What I am seeing in your inspiration picture is a mix where the color was dark enough to recede, leaving the brick as the major focus, but you went lighter than the inspiration.

The problem with going really dark is that it can look like a black hole if there isn't enough architectural detail to make it really interesting. Going just a bit lighter it almost blends with the brick and leaves things uninteresting.

I believe you said you liked the color on the rest of the house and you liked the color on the garage.

I might have gone lighter on the siding and kept the darker on the beams and garage door, or just lighter on the 2nd story rather than have everything mid toned.

All colors look lighter when painted on an exterior with all the natural sunlight, so right now your home looks more like the mid tones below instead of the displayed Woodcliff Lake.

I know you have moved from the gray to green, but it may just be that it wasn't the right gray.