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Hello. I’m looking for ideas for the hardscape, landscape! Lighting and paint for our home. Tha knyou!

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    Perhaps a contrasting color for the siding will make the brick look better.

    Time to pressure wash the drive and sideway.


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    I would pick a color from the brick for the siding. You have a lot of brown in your brick, so if and when you ever need to change roofing, I would pick a brown roof for your house. It would improve the looks a lot.

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    Playing, trying to draw the eye to the entrance:

    This is one case where I might paint the brick.; then the siding color can tie in with the roof. To my eyes, the arched windows in the garage doors don't fit the house., so I made them rectangular. Extended the steps at an angle, cleaned up the concrete just a bit (pavers would be nice if/when budget permits). With cool gray siding like this, the door can be any number of colors; I just chose red because of the plant already in the photo.

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    Paint garage doors and trim same color as siding. Place a potted tall though bushy evergreen on the right corner of your garage. And a potted slender evergreen in the middle. Plant your front patch of garden with all shrubs and perennials.


    Pressure wash the driveway, sidewalk next to the street, and walkway to your door. Replace the gravel between the curb and sidewalk.


    Add a more substantial light and lower it so the top of the light is aligned with the top of the garage door.



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    I like the brick, but none of your colors go. The yellow's a bit off for the brick and the roof and the white trim isn't a good complement to the yellow.

    I think a slate blue with the brick or the charcoal @BeverlyFLADeziner showed would be good. Garage doors the same color as the siding.


    You have a lot of cement in front of your house. I might put a little garden on the right, between your lot line and a line extending from the edge of the garage to the street.


    I agree you should plant up your front "lawn" with shrubs or perennials.

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    Board and batten is very charming and looks good in white. Consider painting it to match the other white. I agree a coloful front door.

    I would plant native wildflowers for the pollinators and hummingbirds and native grasses add nice movement in the breeze.

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    @tracefloyd I like the idea of white and wildflowers with a colorful door. I like the original brick but many have told me to
    Paint over the brick ? Suggestions

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    Normally I don’t like painting brick but in this case I think I would. It’s too ”in your face”, for lack of a better description, idk I like the idea of white with a new larger entry light ( looks like it might be mounted a little too high?) & larger black address #s mounted vertically in that space. That along with some nice new landscaping & a brighter color for the front door.

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    If you like the brick by all means keep it, even though I probably would paint it, neither decision is wrong. Do what you like. Perhaps some of the darker elements in it could be toned down some?

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    I don't have software but here are two sketches based on the conversation so far:

    These are not paint colors, just visuals, my screen is not the best at colors. I added a solid downlight and vertical house numbers.






    Paint companies have online visualizers you can upload a photo of your house and "paint" it using their colors.

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    Thanks for the like. To me the white house with red brick and rectangle garage windows is a little too firehouse.

    The warm taupe painted brick is nice and the cool blue/teal door goes with the gray roof.

    Not your house but I promped AI with the description.




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    I would like to see a mock-up of the siding and brick in charcoal and the front door in a lighter colour or a bright colour. You could look at a brick stain, so you would see some variation of light and dark rather than a solid paint, easier to maintain also.
    Are the other three sides of your home siding only?

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    I forgot, the garage doors and the surrounding trim around the doors could be charcoal also.