Here's front door straight on.

looked at pergolas and there are several that would look great. None of them have the weird garage roof line to work with. Thanks for the idea.

Can you close the front of the garage up with brick and put in a window,maybe enter the garage from the backside...

Can you reload your photos, please? THey don't enlarge when hovered over. Bigger is better.

Just a flat roof pergola will look great: keep the lines simple, and make the height about 6" taller than the door.

I would love to enter the garage from another angle, unfortunately, it isn't possible without replacing the roof of the garage with one that is several feet higher.

Sara Richardson had a house like this and did something neat- tell me is the street straight off the entry and the garage to the side or at the back of the first photographer?

First, may I suggest you lose the shutters and emphasis the modern in whatever your solution is - agree we can do a neat pergola but want to get the details right.

Saw that your street is busy - here's the key if I have the details right to use the first photo for curb view . . let's get you more of the brick on the house and do a wall nearer the street / lose the cedar fence. At 42" high, a flat brick wall (same running bond as thehouse - match the brick as well as you can) will be very mid century, you can plant a columnar ficus or fern pine hedge behind it if you want even more privacy / then you can create grab a party place out front you can really use. If you have frontage, it would come right up to the left side of the drive, then off to the left for at least 10-15' (if possible) where it can die into more foliage, then on the other side of the drive, place an L orT brick wall post with a wall that continues towards the house for about 30" beyond the depth of the wall right at the drive with a mid century light on top/ front and then leave 54" wide for a "path" to the entry and then start the wall up again to the property line. At the termination of the wall, turn the corner the depth of the post that divides the garage from the wall .. Put house numbers (modern ones) on the front of the wall to the right of the "man gate"

Because of setbacks for utilities, your wall may need to be 10' off the curb. Plant something sculptural in front of the wall . . phormium in pebbles regularly spaced can be great.

Now, instead of a deck and worrying over all the rework or trellis at the front of the house, put a brick path 60" wide from man gate to the entry . . face it in brick pavers .. use some brick banding on the drive if you want to tie it together.

Splurge on a tall bronze planter, put the same kind of plant you can put in front of the wall and put it in the corner between door and garage - as the only fixture for it. .. so you see it as you come up the walk right in front of you. Put the wall fixture that echos the one on the post right up over that. Take every other thing away from the landing by the front door.

That will guide people to the door. Pull down the fence with the lattice, and behind the wall, use the whole front yard area with the umbrella table and some great bright orange adirondack chairs. . you could put down more pavers adjacent to the existing patio that is behind the fence and bring it out into the yard / / you can plant it for privacy to the walk with more hedge running from wall to house with another man gate (open place in the hedge) happening there depending on how private you want it. Definitely turn the hedge behind the wall and go as far back as the T or L on the brick post at the drive so you make a sort of narrow "passage" there that is green and feels processional .. . If you need a screen to glass that is now behind the fence, use a grid of 4x4 doubled making squares and grow something on them ..

Would love to get a warm gray like rockport gray on all your siding and garage .. http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/rockportgray#ce_s=rockport gray
Keep the orange door . . .love your house . .

Here are some alternative fences if brick breaks bank - brick just ties beautifully back to house . . here in california, we see entire sites fenced all the time, because lots get so small that it is the only way to get privacy .. . the height of the wall is key . . you will still see the house over it, but when you are behind it, it feels enclosed .. but then, everything about getting past the gate feels like discovery . .

Block with wood - all wood of differing widths run horizontal - all wood

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I love used brick. We have been buying them as often as we find them. There is also a resource for used brick in the area. I bet the wall of brick would cut down the traffic noise.

Spend a bit on a quality designer garage door that has some windows and rectangles, make it a design element to your approach. Right now it is bland bland and it sticks out and ruins the overall look. The house itself will be fine if you spiff up the vast boring garage wall! I just googled "modern garage doors" and this picture is from a place called garaga dot com.

Here's a mockup of a door option that can be purchased many places, including Costco, a brand called Amarr. I chose this one due to vertical rectangles. (You can specify privacy glass, so nobody can see into the windows.)

Here is the same door with mullions, to make the windows reflect vertical rectangles: (mouse over the image so you see it blown up as it shows cropped otherwise)

A more modern garage door look will be had instantly with paint ifyou take the siding and door charcoal .. . it could be on the phase 2 list tho!

That would be a great improvement. Timely, as my mother somehow got her fingers caught in the door this summer. It was horrible, so a new door is on the replace soon list!!