shutters, and front door in SW darkroom - a black with purple.

shutters and door with SW inkwell - a black with blue.

Overall, the house is very sharp, and inviting, this is an extremely well kept exterior. I am not a fan of green with orange brick, green was very 'in' in the late 80's for exteriors, not so much any more.

Thanks detroit. I like those options. What program do you use to change the colors like that? Looks so real.

As always, I like black shutters on brick. Brown for the mulch.

I use colorjive.com to try out colors. It's sooooo easy. Watch the 3min. instructional video for great tips. Also, it offers Sherwin Williams colors and Ben Moore (only a smattering, though), plus two others. What I've figured out, though, is that light colors don't work very well, and no color is anything like the real thing, but you can get an idea.

It's fun.

Black shutters! Matches roof & door, and has more contrast than the other colors.

I like the 2nd option (Inkwell) very much. The brick is "hot" (not warm, ha, ha) so it sort of cools it off, vs. using another hot color . . .

Pretty house!

Use a natural color mulch, nothing dyed. Cypress, cedar or cocoa hulls would be a natural choice. I like the dark almost black shutters and door.
Sue

My favorite mulch is pine straw and it looks like you might have an abundant and free supply close by if those are pine trees behind you. Seriously, it is great natural mulch, doesn't wash out of your beds like those nuggets everyone loves. Shake it on thickly and you're done. I don't care for dyed mulch either; second choice would be cedar or pine bark mulch (again, not nuggets).

Very attractive house. I like the 2nd option also. But you might keep playing around with some other shades and find something you like even better.

Sounds like most like the dark colored shutters. Dark shutters and dark mulch?
Anybody think brown shutters would like nice with the red mulch?

Or keep the red shutters and go brown mulch?

I would also change the shutters and doors to black. If you are going to use mulch I would use a very deep earthy brown not red.

Red mulch is scary.