This house is gorgeous! You do have an opportunity to do a four or five color scheme.

This is an over-the-top example, if you love color:

This is a good example of a gray combination with cranberry accents:

This is subtle: A scheme of and with a cottage red on the windows.

I also like a dark green and white: with light blue on the porch ceiling.

Love the sage-cream combination you posted!

Thanks for your help!

Here's a pretty facade where paint is used to pick out the details.

Hi meghamheater -- grand old girl you have there, congratulations! I ran a search for Queen Anne exteriors; click here and see what grabs you:
https://www.houzz.com/photos/queen-anne-exterior-phbr0lbl-bl~l_76597

I think the nice thing about a Victorian home is that it can really take any color that normally wouldn't work for other styles like red, green and my favorite, blue.

I just wanted to say congratulations on your beautiful home. I would have been stalking that home too. You are going to have so much fun decorating. I think you have so many options for color. Just pick a color you love so you smile every time you drive up to your house. Good Luck!

It's a great old house just in need of a lot of love, it has been abandoned for 3+ years. Beautiful, pristine unpainted woodwork throughout ( don't know how the rest of it is a mess).
Thanks for all of the great suggestions! I will post final pictures in the hopefully not too distant future!

Congratulations! You have a lovely classically influenced Queen Anne house. It is a common subset of Queen Anne and features columns rather than turned posts. They tend to be a bit more subdued than their cousins.

You can use nearly any color on a Queen Anne, but this type looks best with more subdued colors and less picking out than its cousins I think. I like the creamy yellow and you can play it up with maybe antique white pillars (white with a touch of brown to tone it down a bit--bright white came later) and darker ocher yellow casings. Queen Annes have a lot of detail, but I think keeping it to two or three basic colors and maybe a couple of related shades and tints look best.

Your color inspiration is an Eastlake style Queen Anne, which has more detail to pick out than you have, and are common in San Francisco, where all the painted ladies are. The more subdued examples like you posted are good inspiration though. You can also try Historic House Colors for lots of examples. He just changed his web design so you can see lots of examples in one glance. http://historichousecolors.com/portfolio/

He has a vintage rendering in yellow similar to yours: http://historichousecolors.com/kicking-new-web-site/ Old House Guy also does color consultations and is a good resource about the design of old houses.

$108,000 is a great price and it looks to be in pretty good shape. I would see if I could find some historical photos of it and research its history. You might even qualify for state tax credits for repairs. Around here, that could be 25% with only $5000 spent over two years to qualify. Quite a bit of paperwork, but maybe you are already in a historic district--then it is easier. Something to think about. Whatever you do, keep the old doors and windows and siding and such and do your research on old house maintenance. I recommend The Craftsman Blog for new old house owners, and John Leeke is the best source for old window repair.

Does look like you have some vinyl there, which might disqualify you from tax credits. Worth checking out though.

Here are some yellow and soft green examples you might like in a variety of Victorian styles.

Houssaon and I like the same home (which I have driven by a number of times, as it is outside Harvard Square in Cambridge). It is even lovelier in person.

meghamheater, what colors did you decide to use? Would love to see the update!