Can I fix ugly painted exterior brick?

[Jeremy Gengenbach]

I found a house that will make a perfect BRRRR. The problem that I have is the exterior brick which is painted white (with bright red trim). Every other house in the neighborhood is traditional brick and I am afraid that this cheap looking painted brick will lower the ARV. Is there an affordable way to bring the brick back to the original color?

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Okay forgive my complete inability to do anything like photoshop, but I tried to describe what I was thinking and it was too hard, so I figured out how to do this on my Mac.  But, you should get the picture, so to speak.

I think this is the best way to downplay the weird mix of Spanish style with the gable roof over the garage.  If you make that peak the same color as the roof, it kind of just blends into the roof.

And the red post made the garage look all off kilter.  If you paint the post to match the white brick on the other side of the garage, it then balances that out, too.  And painting the garage door white, gives you a nice clean left-to-right consistency across the house.

I was thinking it would look nice to paint the red cement porch area black, and the window trim black, too.

The black blob over the garage door is supposed to be a large black really cool light fixture.  If you find one with some round shape on it or the popular conical can type, it would blend the arch windows into the rest of the architecture a bit.  A square or rectangle one would just make the arch windows look weird again.  And it should be large.  A small one would look too wimpy against the arch windows, in my opinion, which would again make them stand out and look weird.  So, here's an example with a quick search online of a good shape, but you'd want a bigger light fixture than this one:

https://www.menards.com/main/lighting-ceiling-fans/outdoor-lighting/outdoor-wall-lights/patriot-lighting-reg-conor-black-outdoor-wall-light/iol463bk-m/p-1556778764765-c-7545.htm

It's hard to tell in the photo, but it looks like there is also red paint at the foundation line of the house.  If so, I'd also paint that black.  I thought painting it black really anchored the house nicely.

And who doesn't like a red door these days?

I think if you go with the more modern style light fixture over the garage, it might blend into the neighborhood better than if you went with a Spanish style light fixture, which is really tempting.  But, it might end up making the house look hokey, since the architecture isn't consistent.

Bars on windows can be a cultural thing.  It's very common in Mexico.  With the Spanish style arched windows plus the bars, I'm thinking the owner may have been from a Latin country.  You see this in California a lot.