Is there part of the house we can't see? Where is your front door? Just the double frontage like that is plain, but that was the style and not much you can do about it. The homes you are looking at do have a lot of features with opportunities to bring in other colours but there is nowhere with yours to do that and if you try it usually cheapens it. If you take the triple fronted house you posted, I would do the lighter green on the weatherboard and the deeper green like they have used on the window frames, I would do for the baseboards and the front door. I would keep the window frames and eaves white and paint the guttering to match the roof. Are you country? Are here any water issues for the garden? Instead of trying to do something with the house, I think I would be inclined to give it all a cottagy look with a picket front fence, nice entrance, a lush lawn and lots of plants for colour and lushness. The dark green baseboard will be a nice background for some small shrubs in front of the house. Weatherboards really lend themselves to that look. Don't forget the addition of old tyre swans - lol I notice you have small awnings over the windows - maybe replace them with some striped canvas ones in greens and terracotta - if you can get the combination. [houzz=]

Curious what colour would you paint it. oh and YES you can paint your roof, but you need to clean and seal it first.. Check your roof for any broken or cracked tiles and replace them. To repair any damaged mortar around the ridge capping, remove the capping and apply new mortar and put the capping back in place. Make sure the mortar is dry before you start painting. and use a airless spray gun to paint. Good luck...there is a lot of info and tips about painting a roof on the Net, also YouTube, check out your hardware stores. As they say 'A change is as good as a Holiday' :)

@ minebathroom and @ Luke Buckle, our electrician has informed us that we don't have to put solar panels on our house roof if we don't want to for aesthetics or if for example the roof was old as you mentioned Luke. Panels can be placed on a shed or garage roof anywhere on your property if you are rural like us for example, as the power can be directed into the grid from anywhere the solar panels live and that doesn't have to be on the house roof. We would love to go solar but agree with all your other points @minebathroom, too expensive and expected lifespan and feed in tarrifs are very ordinary but then there's also the back up service too, will the company still be around in one year let alone 10 years. When our electrician got his solar, he got such a fantastic tarrif rate which was offered at the very start of the solar revolution, he was recieving a cheque or refund of something like $500 a quarter but the rates are so low now, there is certainly no chance of recouping some of the instalation costs, although I wouldn't be so fused about that if I thought I would get say 20+ years out of the system before it begun to possibly fail in some way. Things do have to get allot more reliable if nothing else!!

I agree with some of that -- the tiles I did you could tell they had been 'stained' if you looked at them , but it helped sell the place presumably , and I'm not being picky , but they actually didn't look 'painted' IMO -- it did look like the thinned out paint had soaked in , if that makes sense . Regrouting may have taken away some of that look too ( I didn't ) , but basically they looked 'clean' , whereas before they looked unloved . A slight difference was mine were charcoal before , a dark charcoal afterwards ( the black soaked in so it went part-way between the two ) . Also I doubt if mine were genuine slate , but they weren't those flat smooth tiles either -- there was a definite 3d type ripple across the surface , but they were all cut to 300 x 300 , and as they had been laid by a previous owner , I never lifted them to see exactly what they were . Anyway , take it for what its worth -- if the only other option is to lift and replace at a cost of a few thousand , then trying a bit with $25 of materials , or the whole thing with $200 worth , might still be worth a try ?