First thing is remove those shutters, they do not fit your windows, square off the top and corners of the garage door, I think I nice new coat of wow paint and some timber accents could make your house a home, make the front porch wide enough for furniture with room to walk around it, nothing worse than adding a porch and finding out that furniture won't fit and feel right, also you can faux your garage door with gel stain to give it a more updated look if you don't want the expense of replacing

Eels you affordable, paint he porch black and the shutters ,add oversized pots by porch that are clack with window box and flowers for color

Paint your front door red

I think I would focus on a driveway, sprinklers and basic landscaping with young trees for now. Put off any addition until next spring.

Blue front door. Help garage doors fade by painting white and add details. Paint side garage entrance door all white to disappear.

Those who mentioned finish out the cement driveway - I will add, we are on a dirt road so that is a factor it's not like there's a asphalt road and then a dirt driveway that would obviously be dumb. We probably would do the addition spring at the earliest. The wooden steps have major peeling paint and need to figure out temp fix til we can add the front porch. There's also a screen door in front of our front door and it's broken. I like the bright front door idea maybe red. But there's a screen door in the way and the front door is set in behind it. What to do?! (It's a HUD home, GREAT deal, just needs a little fixing up).

Hi Linnea, I wanted to follow up on this Post and see what you decided to do with the exterior of you home and if you would post recent pictures.