love the bricks..paint your trims..some plants would soften it

Oh my gosh don't paint those bricks! They're lovely. I'd actually just add some greenery, it's always super effective!

Don't paint! Update your roofing and those steps - make them complement each other!

If the roof could be changed to a dark charcoal and the stairs the same colour as the roof, then add greenery to the garden - the place would be perfect!

Thank you all, looks like the bricks are staying. I'll post an update when we paint the trim and stairs. Cassie

They don't looked dyed, they look like they are red bricks. I'm glad you have decided to keep them. It's a beautiful characterful house. Clean the garden wall. Plant something, perhaps a low hedge, dark green looks awesome against those bricks.

Paint the trim a colour without red in it, add some greenery (even hanging baskets with bright flowers or pure greenery will make a huge difference or solid pots on the verandah wall) and definitely look at your steps - either painting them or going with heritage tiles with a pattern that will break the red block appearance. Personally, the brick colour fits the period of the house and the vernacular of the era.

love the house. I used to have a red brick house and landscaped with flowering shrubs with blue, mauve and pink flowers. Looked really nice.

It looks like they were in the process of tuckpointing. They've done the wall near the nameplate, but didn't get to the front facade.

i love this home. stunning but if you want to detract from the red i would add something on the stairs like sandstone or paint in white as then the stairs are an amazing feature that the eye will zone in on rather than simply zoning in on the red.

Design is thinking outside the box. Ask yourself why you hate it and then think of some reasons to change and it may be that you feel it is just to bold and a solution would be to give another focal area