What about a stacked stone wall along the curb?

Can you post some pictures that show your landscaping now?

I'll try to get a few now. I'll show the whole drive. My only concern about a wall is that it could look sort of short since the double drive is so wide. I'll be interested to hear you thoughts upon seeing a broader photo.

Here is a picture of the door without the screen. Also a lighter version of the façade and the front porch.

I would plant a great deal of bushes and plants towards the street, and maybe some privets and a lot less grass. And for paint I would suggest a grey neutral for the white siding to help the different elements blend together. Love the front door, but it needs to be painted one color, maybe black to relate to the black metal columns? Are the windows new? And can they be painted as well?

Basically your house is a layer cake. Top half/Bottom half Paint the white in a mid tone gray that blends well with the stone. You could use different colors but gray is easier. Look at various paint brands for the best gray for your stone. Not all brands are going to have a nice gray for your stone. You need just a gray that blends with all the gray tones. If you try to match one tone in the stone all the rest will come to the fore. Sample on a 3x3 board set in the middle of the stone.
Next a warm white for the trim and your choice for shutter colors. Paint the garage doors the siding color as well.
Porch columns- just replace the metal with 6x6 posts ringed top and bottom with simple 1x1 cove molding to approximate column details and a 1x for the base. You might also consider trim around the windows to give them some more character.

Here's a broad view. Thank you for the great suggestions!

Hi Jennifer,

I love the colour that you have on the shutters and front door now as it looks to be a good tone for the stonework. I suggest painting the top of your home something similar, like B. Moore "Nantucket Gray" HC-111 - it has a slight green tone to it that would go well with your stone, and give the whole house a more uniform look.
Then I would paint the top floor shutters black, or a dark grey like BM "Ebony Slate" 2118-30, and add shutters to the main floor windows as well.
I would paint the garage in the Nantucket Gray as well, and the garage doors in black or the Ebony Slate colour.
Alternatively, paint out the whole garage, doors and all in the Nantucket Grey, and add 6" white trim around the outside of the doors - this would tie in with the porch pillars. Then add black 'Carriage House' hardware on the garage doors. If there's any way you could add two black garage light fixtures on either side of the garage, it would add a nice touch.
I agree with the earlier suggestion for your porch pillars - they would like nice framed over and painted white.
The screen on the door needs to go, unless you can get a new wood one that you can paint out.
For the front door Black would be elegant as suggested earlier, or for a bit of colour , maybe try BM "Tate Olive" HC-112. This is in the same greenish tones as the Nantucket Grey, and would work well. You definitely need a new classic style door. Solid wood - a wreath would look good at holidays. Nice hardware on the door.
Then you need either two tall black planters on either side of your front door, and flowers to brighten it up at the entrance, OR it would be nice to see two tall cedars on either side of the porch. Then soften the landscaping around the rest of your house.

Building a low wall or fence along the road would improve curb appeal by 150%. If it seems too short you could curve it along the drive as far as that big tree. Then lots of shrub roses for color in the summer. I think the craftsman portico would add a substantial finished look. Door should go - its creepy. Looks cheap. Light post seems out of place - could it be moved to the corner where the drive meets the front walk with a nice plant circle at its base?

I would paint it Taupe, with white trim around windows and Black shutters and add Black shutters to window rigght & left of the door and Matching Wrough Iron Lights to front door way and both sides of the Garage. Red Door. IF I was buying a New gargage door I would Buy a Carriage house style. It's too bad the Roof over the front Door wasn't wider...It would look so much better to scale.

If you were going to add on and can afford it you could easily add a bottom roof...or /and extend the garage out 10 ft.. to give yourself a nice front porch area...check these. I like the wall in the one that would look good to black out some if you don't plan on adding anything.

Hi Jennifer,

Your home has many charming features. I love the hip roof, the partial stone facade, the wide circular drive, and last, but certainly not least, the beautiful old tree. Now for what I noticed immediately in viewing the pictures. One, the shutters on the left side of the house look odd in their placement. If attached to the window frame properly, with black wrought iron hardware, I think there might be room for a complete set on both windows. Bottom window, to the right of the front door could use a set as well, and if inclined, a window box could be placed on the bottom of this window for increased charm and appeal. Attach them properly, as when closed, real shutters would cover the entire expanse of the window. Second, I understand your husband likes the screen door, and it probably gives much needed ventilation in the warm months, but it truly takes away from the look of the home. I also think you are somewhat limited to the color on the paint, and would also do a beautiful grey, with black trim on the shutters and front door. If you want a less formal look, same base color with perhaps, a light blue, leaning toward powder blue, for a cottage like look. I see the home as having an English Country look, or perhaps an English Cottage look to it. I say this because of the hip roof, stone accents, smaller windows, and the carriage placement of the garage doors, as opposed to a single double garage door. If this were my home, at some point I would replace the windows, to a diamond laced wood window, to complete the look, but of course the choice is entirely up to you. I would replace the iron columns with four simple wood posts, and four simple English brackets, which form almost a V, or a slightly turned triangle. Two at the front, two at the back, attached to the stone facade, and these would be a half timbered post or column. The front door should be replaced at some point, and I would do a simple English windowed door, leaning along the lines of a Dutch door. The door that you currently have, has an almost French look to it with the current molding, and round hardware, and I assume that went with the wrought iron columns, and this was the look the original builder was after. If it is a truly heavy well-made door, I might keep it,again, paint it all black, and do an hour glass curtain or drapery treatment on the window for semi privacy from the street. The garage doors should lean to an English carriage or stable door. For the privacy issue on the street, I would do perhaps an arched stone wall, leading up to an arched entrance stone pillar with coach lamp attached to the pillar, facing the front of the pillar, as opposed to on the very top. The wall should be set back approximately five feet or so from the street. Wall and entrance pillars could also be out of more of an antique red brick, if so inclined. It would be perfectly fine to use the same brick on the small front porch slab, as the English often mixed brick with stone on period facades. Your lot has a beautiful natural wooded look to it, and the landscape in front of the proposed wall should carry out the grounded natural look of the English garden. I can't see the garage roofline completely, but at some point you might consider a small cupola atop the garage wing, nothing huge or overly traditional, smaller, and in balance with the hip roof. I know all of these suggestions can be overwhelming, not to mention expensive, but if you plan to stay in the home for awhile, I suggest you tackle one project a year. I think you have a beautiful foundation to start from, I sincerely hope when you are finished, your personal dream home emerges. The best!

Plant a round plant border around the lamp post. Lavender's, hosta's, delphiniums etc