Welcome to Gardenweb,stefaniematt. I love your porch!

The gray brick looks nice in the photo. I wonder whether you could work a theme based on that, using a darker gray above. For other color schemes, go to your local Ben Moore and Sherwin Williams paint stores and pick up their exterior color ideas pamphlets. They are also on-line.

Wider shutters, fitted to the exact height of the windows, is a subtle change that would look good.

If you don't get a lot of responses here, you might want to post this on the Home Decorating forum.

Here is a link that might be useful: Ben Moore exterior paint combos

What a nice looking home!

A few suggestions...that bush on the right of the picture is too large and too close to the house so you'd probably have to remove it to paint anyway. Keep plantings away from the house for water drainage reasons as well as aesthetics as the plants get bigger.

The shutters on the house are too small....either remove or replace. To look right, shutters have to look like they actually work....when shut, just cover the window.

I like the brick and would try to work with it. However, if you choose to paint the brick then consider eliminating the wall sconces and replacing with a pendant in your lovely arched porch. It will highlight the porch and the front door so much more. (I think the brick would be too hard to patch well unless painted.)

It's hard to see what's going on with the front door...does that have sidelights? If not, I'd consider replacing it with a door that does....more glass and jewelry will really make that entry way a total wow!

My preference is not for blue. Blue is a hard color to get right on the exterior. (Neighbors really flubbed it with their house which is now port-a-pot blue!) But it can be done if it has enough gray in it.

You might go to the Certainteed website where they have a colorview area where you can select a home similar to yours and paint it different colors to see what you might like. Sherwin Williams has a color visualizer on their website that allows you to upload your own photo and try on paint colors.

Benjamin Moore has their color gallery where you can select the color of your brick and then it will recommend color combos. For example if I select BM silver crest it recommends slate blue or red river clay along with the dark gray like your roof color.

Here is a link that might be useful: Silvercrest

I would never ever paint brick. If you do , it will be forever a maintenance problem you do not need. Work with the color

Ditto to what cristophern said, you'll be creating a big ongoing maintenance job to your house if you do that. It looks nice to me and I agree with those above about making some other changes to make your house work better without painting.