Its not the house itself, that makes it look off. Its the neglected look of the front yard. The landscaping is non existant. The driveway still shows in front of the garage thats been closed in. It looks weedy and like it hasnt been mowed, and furniture all sitting all over. A brighter color (one that is your favorite), on the front door would add a lot. Clean up and have a nice looking sidewalk to that front door, with a slab in front of the patio doors thats a bit larger and branch of sidewalk going to it too. Once its all cleaned up, and top soil and lawn seed on the old driveway, then its time, to do some landscaping and planting.

Your brick is fine and the roof looks good on my screen. One suggestion…get rid of the shutters. Not the right style house or windows for them. If possible, beef up the window trim. I’d also replace the metal columns with wood.

Could you post a picture of the entire house? How much vinyl is there?

Here is an example of using a darker blue/gray for the gutters and trim. You want a color that transitions from the roof to the brick. All the other brown needs to change too.

The vinyl part may be more difficult. If you could change to a siding paintable in any color, you will have more options.

No shutters a nice green like this for the siding and trim THen go to work on the landscaping. If you like the MCM vibe of the house then check out MCM landscaping

I think the roof and brick look fine together, but if you can replace the siding with paintible and paint it the brick color, the house will look more cohesive. Most will diss the shutters, but I think the house needs them. Paint them, as well as all other trim the same. The gray blue pictured above looks good with the brick color. I recognize that the driveway no longer leads to a garage, but is it still used to park a car on? If so, the edges would benefit from some borders and filled with an appropriate driveway material. If not, incorporate it into the lawn.

The lighter roof will be appreciated in the heat of summer!! Your issue is the black/tan/white going on below the roof. Since you have committed to tan go with that for the rest of the paintable surfaces. What is the vinyl color? Looks tan on my screen. Hopefully it's a gray and will save some pennies then. For sure jettison the shutters and forget ever painting the brick. That would be a FOREVER mistake. The shingle color is only 20-25 years of getting used to it.

It might be my monitor to an extent but... I don't think it's the brick or the roof, those look good. It's kind of all the different colors of everything else. The regular siding and that little patch of it above the porch look like different colors, and the patch above the porch looks different than the trim under the roof. The trim (gutters?) under the roof is a different color than the sofit and does not look like it matches the patch of the roof. Do you have downspouts, and if so what color are they? The white trim on the sliding door backed on the tan siding, with the white trim windows on black shutters, with a brown door trimmed in white on black? or at least it looks like white on black. It's all too much.

I would remove the shutters. Powerwash the brick. I would suggest against ever painting it. Keep your trim colors around windows and doors consistent, maybe paint the brown door white. Keep all siding parts consistent. Keep that trim/gutters under the roof to either the soffit color or the siding color.

Powerwash the porches. There are some different materials and bits going on there. I would try to replace the wood steps with either cement or a brick that can work with your existing brick. Either leave the cement slab as is, or maybe face it with thin bricks or perhaps ceramic tile to make it pop as a purposeful something different than the other porch.

And then consider your landscaping. If you are into plants, great. Then it's a matter of what amount of gardening you like, and what kinds of plants. If you are not, still great. I would suggest a good mulch bed up by the house- a lot of folks like wood or stone mulches. Put in a bench, or an art piece, or maybe a safety box if you get a lot of packages delivered.

The neglected gravel ”driveway” leading to the patio doors makes it obvious that the room there used to be a garage. I see this a lot in my small midwestern town.

Do you use this as a driveway or parking space? Minimize it, removing as much as you can starting at the house and moving out toward the street. Removing all furniture and clutter in the yard/porch will go a long way toward cohesiveness and beautification.

For the house, remove all traces of tan and brown and go with a subtle pale gray on everything except the brick. Leave the brick alone. It’s the best feature of your house.

The roof is fine. Your problem is that the beige siding doesn't go with the brick. I'd start with a color closer to the darkness of the brick. Maybe a slatey blue. I'd paint the shutters the same color. I'd be sure to paint the white vertical element between the brick and the siding. Then, I'd do some landscaping. A few shrubs between the door and the siding would probably do the trick.

I presume a lot of the mess is due to the roofing, but it's making your house look a little forlorn. Take another pic when the roofers are done.

Is this photo taken from the backyard?

First and foremost landscape landscape landscape!

Change out your trim to a warm white and replace your siding to paintable siding (vinyl should not be painted) and you have options. A gray blue for the siding

or a deep gray green

and if you really want to beef it up change out the metal creole/Italianate inspired posts , which really have no place on a ranch of this sort for wood posts.

Some option

One thing to avoid

Don’t:

Go too cool (like bluish gray siding)

Or too light (it’ll wash out next to the roof)

Accessible Gray sits in that safe, balanced middle.

following along

Here is a green/earth-tone scheme (surprisingly good with your brick)

Thank you all, the comments are really helpful overall, especially the ones with pictures to help me visualize an end goal. @beesneeds is correct, the roof was cooler than I anticipated but really the random colors are the main struggle. There's white soffit, the tan of the vinyl was the same color as the front gable but has faded drastically, and the roof that was replaced was red (downspouts and gutters, which are getting ready to be replaced, are also a dingy red).

I really am drawn to the green inspo color given by @Patricia Colwell Consulting and the more earth tones from @Celery. Visualization, Rendering images. Thank you so much for the inspiration, that gives me direction and hope in a pleasing outcome.

I know some were asking about the gravel. My house sits on 86 acres and my gravel driveway is a quarter of a mile long... it does go right up to the house and I typically park there. Love to do something about that but single mom budget is a killer when you want nice things. Landscaping is definitely in the future though, and I agree it will go a long way in helping it look more appealing.

One idea we did many years ago - we had similiar iron columns and we had a handyman box them in with wood and then trimmed and painted them, bulks them up and cleans up the facade for not a lot of money

So the gravel is your parking spot. Making that look better can be cheap if you want to put in a little work.

Use a garden rake to square it up and neaten the edges, then contain it with landscape timbers. Sometimes you can find used ones on social media really cheap.

I still maintain that raking it back from the house a bit will improve the house’s appearance.

For sure find another place for your outdoor furniture and grill. Front-and-center in your yard is not a good look. Is there a flat area off to the left of where you park?

Your roof looks good. what this house needs:

Put grill, propane, shovels, and furniture in back yard. You have 86 acres so plenty of other places. As time allows, remove the gravel driveway. in the mean time, park in the back. remove the fake shutters. mow lawn.