Tess, I hope I'm not too late with the following advice. Don't ever paint brick. Your house is a simple design, exterior wise. Paint wont fix it. What's missing is a designed garden. Even the simplest brick house can look like an inviting, lived in home when it has a structured garden surrounding it. For less than the price of paint, invest in a landscaper to design a garden that will soften and greatly enhance your homes street appeal ...and add many $ in value. Painted brick detracts from value and has to be repainted periodically, defeating the purpose of brick, which is, no maintenance. Besides, your house, painted white or cream as has been suggested here, would stand out in the street like a proverbial sore thumb. Trust me, landscape, starting at the street boundary and leave the bricks alone. Good luck.

I would like a warm mushroomy gray with darker brown/charcoal for the trim and window framing. Also, trim the bushes out front so we can see where the front door is...

i changed my setting to OZ as i was told there are not a lot of kiwis here on the forum to give advice:) hopefully some wonderful aussies can help me:)

So its a corner section ? It looks to have good bones , but it is dated , but personally I'd focus on areas you didn't mention . Those tall windows are a great feature , but it looks like there's a fence hiding it from the street , and I'm trying to work out if theres a film or something on them ? Anyway , I'd leave tghe bricks , probably change some of the windows ( such as those '6' ones to the left of the tall windows , and the 3 large windows , again split into '6' each , along the other side of the house facing the other street . I'd go charcoal or black frames , and either 1 large pane each window , or maybe 4 , with quite chunky crsosses if going for '4' . Thats because the rest of the windows ( I'm assuming wooden ) I'd also paint in charcoal or black , and those frames look chunky . Terraces , drivway , paths I'd chemical clean and waterblast , the entire base paint that charcoal -- at present it seems to be a mix of white and bare concrete . Similarly , the fences seem a mix of a browny charcoal with a side of slime haha , and natural , and white -- waterblast and paint it all charcoal . Do the gardens -- lots of plants , bushy brown leaves and spikey green leaves and different heights and use some imagination . Theres nothing too much wrong with that pathway in the stones , except its 50 years old or whatever . Waterblast , but I'd look at doing a solid pathway at some stage . As a basic design -- dark base , red brick and dark windows around the middle , white gutters , white fences in the property , charcoal fences around the edge , and the mainly greens of the gardens . $10-20k , depending on how many windows you need to/want to replace , etc .