We are a few weeks away from the start of our exterior remodel. All the siding is being replaced with hardie siding and all the front windows are being replaced with white colonial grid windows. The brick from the bay windows on the right side is being torn off and replaced with siding to try to pull the top and bottom of the house together. The Patio is going to be replaced with one similar to the bottom picture. The color of the siding will be a warm grey that compliments the brick and the trim will be white.

Now my question. I feel like the window downstairs on the left is just surrounded by too much brick. I was trying to come up with a way to break up all that expanse of brick and my only idea so far is to put shutters on that window. But I think (maybe incorrectly) that adding a shutter to one window would be weird. The only other windows that could have a shutter would be the two other separate downstairs windows and the lone small window in the middle upstairs. What do you think it would look like to do shutters to just these 4 windows? I've seen shutters on a few craftsman homes, but not many... Any other ideas for that brick wall? Any other ways I should go more craftsman? I could remove or change the decorative braces/brackets.

Thank you for your ideas and I promise to post an after picture when it is done!