Do not render. It will then look like a 1980/90 house that has been rendered. A dark colour on roof and gutter and fascia will look good and match your black window frames. Keep the brick as is. What you do need is a huge amount of landscaping and plants to soften the entire facade. That is where your money needs to be spent. Look at Dulux paint, Colorbond Night Sky for your roof and trims.

Monument and Night Sky are slightly different. Just depends what matches best with the brick and existing window frames.

Definitely dark on all your trims, updating the porch entrance would look great, add a beautiful door to compliment the door replacement of garage, landscaping the front with trees and lush foliage would give the house a lovely presence, the bricks are great and will highlight any planting.

You could always build a courtyard outside your granny flat, add value to the house and be a beautiful addition for whoever lives there.

Have you got a sketch of the new facade, without the garage

@Julie Herbert - what colour bricks are in you picture. We are trying to decide on our brick facade and Iike red - even if it looks 90s or dated. But the bricks you show have a good colour mix in it. I would appreciate it if you could tell me which colour that is (if you know it).

To clarify the redish black bricks at the entryway. Not the yellowish bricks on that feature wall.

Not sure of the bricks used but Google Boral bricks, they may have something similar or give you advice on how to achieve a similar look.

Something similar from Boral, Meridian collection.