If you like a more modern feel take the shutters off , do more modern landscaping and do not paint the brick.Get some modern furniture for the porch, take the hedge away .

Widen the front walkway as Doug's sketch suggests and at the very least, remove the two shrubs that flank the front walk. The current narrow opening makes the entryway less visible and less welcoming. If it were mine, I would remove the entire front hedge and replant with something more interesting. The current landscaping looks somewhat stuck in the 1950s-70s. I can't see enough of the driveway to see what might make sense for that. A series of more photos that show the whole front yard out to the road as well as from one side to the other can make it easier to make more complete suggestions.

What to plant would depend on where you are and if you have snow to consider as well as what you find aesthetically pleasing. Can you find photos of landscapes on Houzz or other web sources to illustrate what you mean by modern and you find attractive?

Here is another photo of the house

Since the houses you've shown have little landscaping, and since that's my interest, I don't have a whole lot to offer other than to again suggest that the entire hedge needs removal across the front of your house. Note the wide walkways in both of your examples. I would do something similar from the parking pad to your porch leaving a wide entry pad in front of the porch, similar to how wide the steps are in both of your examples, such as from the wall with the door over to the center post. Consider whether continuing the walkway out the road makes sense; does anyone walk to your house or park down by the road? Add a pair of tall pots on a firm surface off the porch to frame the entry, one in front of the pillar and one in front of the wall just to the left of the door, but not where it will hide the door. Choose pots that fit your aesthetic and with colors that work with whatever you do with the house. If the brick on your house goes down to near the ground, put in a bed of evergreen groundcover from the right pot over to the end of the porch and from the left pot over to the shrub at the end of the house. Be sure the bed has a cleanly maintained edge to keep it looking tidy. If you want some shrubs, you can add them to the groundcover bed (being sure that the bed is deep enough to accommodate whatever you choose) or place shrubs or trees further out into the yard to give some feeling of shelter from the road, and consider using some of the same plants used in the garden to the left will provide continuity. If you live in an area with a lot of snow and ice, choose your plants across the front of the house to be able to tolerate snow getting dumped on them, especially if you decide to go with a metal roof. I have a similar area that has groundcovers, perennials that die back for winter, and some shrubs that if damaged by roof dumps can be cut to near the ground and will grow within a few weeks. In doing landscaping, do the home work first such as roofing, painting or repairs, then do hardscape such as walkways, and finally do bed prep and planting. Choose plants that won't overgrow the space they are planted in to reduce pruning work.

If you choose to paint your brick to get the feel of your examples, be aware that you will have taken a low maintenance surface and turned it into one that will need ongoing maintenance - cleaning and painting as needed which will add time and expense. I am not wild about your current black shutters and white trim. Perhaps start by choosing colors with a less stark contrast between the brick and the trim such as a sage or the color of the siding on the ell and painting all your trim that same color. Live with that for a while to see if it works better aesthetically for you.

Thank you! I meant to add these photos of landscape designs I like.

Doug's example is perfect!

We can't focus on the entry with the hedges and cars blocking it. Can you devise a parking place on the right of the house and develop an walkway to the entry that welcomes? Right now the hedge and cars say that the porch and entry are off limits.

We have parking on the right of the house.