The burgundy section of walls, above the garage should be the colour of your fascias, which is the timber detail that lines your roof. Seeing you want a more traditional look, the back of the porch Nd any wLl area that is burgundy on the top floor should be matched to your exterior colour now. Doing the following, I'd leave the garage door the colour it is. Your timber door can stay, although I'd paint it myself. The burgundy door won't matter against a dark colour. As for the lining boards on the roof, don't stain them. Paint them in an off white, or full white, perhaps This may tie into your windows. Although you don't have eaves, they could be added easily. They are called truss outriggers. I'm sorry you wanted a traditional exterior, I don't get that at all from what it is, except from your gable roof. The main dilemma I see is the front elevation is entirely flat, a single dimension, so nothing is stepped out or framed from one another. You could play up the enclosed porch. You can add timber details to it, so as I mentioned a slatted screen, paint it the white. Add a thick railing, to the top of the balcony wall, and below that I would actually install shingles. You would need to use a timber bead to create the area to do it, meaning a timber strip running from the balcony opening down to the bottom of the wall, so the entire area below your balcony could be clad in shingles. They can be fixed as a sheet, and painted one shade lighter than your current wall colour. Add a timber batten to also frame your gable, by adding a horizontal batten, as thick as your fascia, and some vertical battens around every 450mm. Giving a slatted look. These battens I would paint the is colour, and the infill area of current wall, I would repainting the same as the shingle colour. Tis way you are adding both visual dimension with colour and real texture. I would also consider adding a timber awning above the top window, just for dimension and detail. Paint in both the fascia dark colour and the white/off white shade you use. It will be on it's way to looking more traditional.

Linda the image above uses a pediment type of scenario, and creates a recessed gable, however with one side of your home having a parapet and the other, a floating gable without a soffits, I think it wouldn't work. I think the strapping i showed yours easiest and most effective as it won't look like fixing an error. As for no shingles, they are my first pick, but very particular and you lean either way, I'm for them, but only real ones, not the fc product ones which have wrong proportions all round. I could only suggest using a batten arrangement in the same way as your gable, otherwise the lining boards look best. These can be sheets, so fixing would be easy. It would tie in with your porch roof being lining boards too. The main thing for me is that window awning, put architraves to the exterior of that window frame, paint it the dark blue colour, to conceal the white window, that's why I suggested white timber details, to make sense of this error.

As an architect, I have a list of words saved on my desktop that I am conscious can sound confusing to the client! One day I hope to write a little archi-dictionary to help clients work out what we mean when we use so many of the words that seem natural to us! 'Form', 'honest materials', 'warmth', 'documentation', 'draft', 'sketch plan', 'detail', 'mass', 'spine', 'circulation', 'water harvesting', 'floating', 'dynamic', 'heavy', 'celebrate'... etc.

Hello Fianou, Congratulations on your charming home. I think it has so much potential. I love the idea of teal, it is fresh and welcoming. I was thinking to give the home some street appeal and to also make it extremely functional. I would see if you could afford to put a wonderful wooden deck out the front, and then I would have window shutters painted teal placed on either side of the windows to give it street appeal, if you could afford to paint the brick I would paint it in a happier white tone with the blue accessory trim on the shutters on each window and also on the roof trim to tie it all in. On the deck I would have flower boxes painted in the same teal colour or whatever colour you choose to link in the whole story. I can see it can be so sweet and charming and a real place to call home. The timber fence at the side would also link in with the decking at the front. Good luck and congratulations on buying your own home ! Woo hoo !