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Whilst dark is trendy now , and to a certain degree is taking over from grey , it is hot in summer , but also i think you risk the house looking too 'negative' -- plus in 5 years when you are sick of it , its harder to paint over . The green and beige were 80's , and does look dated , but the green in particular does suit the site . One option would be quite a crisp white , and slightly greener green trim -- more modern and cleaner looking , but its been done lots too . Something a bit more radical would be a greeny grey ( sort of a greenish tinged muddy khaki ) with white trim -- that satisfies the darker look , the green , the grey , and the cleaner white for contrast -- hard to get it exaactly right , so probably a few test pots needed . The other 'lazy' option would be to keep the beige , but do all the trim in a bright sunshine yellow -- it wouldn't be too overpowering IMO with only the trim in yellow , the beige would compliment it but also tone thge yellow back , but it would modern everything too . Confused you more ?

I think your house looks 'old' because of 3 things -- the beige , the roof but also the green fences . Even though the windows are darker , I wouldn't change the beige to Monument -- it doesn't feel right to me . I'd go crisp white , but I definitely would do the fences in a charcoal -- it doesn't need to be Monument or even a brand in my experience -- a $40 cheapie stain ( or the $100 concentrate ones you thin out ) is fine , because every time you clean your fence , no matter how much you've paid , some comes off , so you redo your fence every 2 to 5 years . Do those 2 , and maybe a bright red entrance door ( the door seems a mid red in a couple of pics , white in one I assume is earlier , but black in others -- maybe a screen door ? ) , and then stand out on the street and look -- you may not need to do the roof then . You say you have done or are working on the garden -- I am again making an assumption that you have conifers or similar under the bags ? Thats fine , but it needs gardens and modern plants too -- green leaves , yellow leaves , red leaves , dark branches , even grasses and cactuses . It all adds to it , but also modernises the feel -- the large bushy shrubs in most pics could easily have been what someone planted 50 years ago !

Nothing like a coat of paint to freshen things up. I’d be wary of doing old gutters white. They may have imperfections that white would highlight. And you’d need to be careful to get a white that worked with the terracotta roof (with its lovely patina) anything too stark would look unflattering.