I get direct afternoon sun (in Florida) and have had my garages faux wood painted for 8-ish years and they still look perfect. If they know what they’re doing and use the right kind of paint and sealer it should last.

I actually love your home as is!

I think you need to eliminate...not add ......to make the most of the potential this house has.....the house to the right side of the front door...including the garage..are in sync...the house on the left of the front door looks like it belongs to another house..the black square (with a cross?).....the odd big window with the framed ?surround....the black pyramid over it....are battling the charm factor this house deserves...

Thanks ritasj for your comment. Just want to clarify that the black square is actually window with a copper roof. There is also more patina-ed roofing over 4 small sections on front. It looks black bc of lighting but in person is a brown shade. This picture may show color better. Any thoughts on whether to add stone to the bay window & maybe the last window section on right? thanks

For me the beauty of your home comes from its restrained elegance. It is not boring by any means. I wouldn't recommend tarting it up with stone or wood.

I would add to the landscaping a little though. Add some more open form bushes with red or purple bark to give fall/winter interest. (I can see that the plants you have are relatively young) Plant some deep maroon or yellow mums in your planters by the garage. Bring in colour with plants!

Ok thanks. Years ago I did have 2 black tall urn planters at garage but since I dont have much of a green thumb the plants died. I guess I should revisit the ideas with mums b/c less watering for fall foliage than summer ones. ha

I like the present garage doors. They look great. The things that look strange to me are: the closed shutter on left, why is it closed? The extra trim work on picture window, wide white trim going across and down thru small grids???
Landscaping could use some work. Do away with the big bush covering your window on right.

Cpsk the latest picture much better! You have the continuity in color needed to blend in those features on the left !

sandybean ....Now that I look closely at the landscaping you are right bout the shrubs on right side. They have grown way too tall so I am planning to have them trimmed. Thanks for the tips.

I love the change . Both the change in texture to front and color on garage doors makes the front visual really pop. Would add a red Japanese maples to the front yard too.

Also change the shutters to same wood as garage doors- try. It out on computer to be sure you like it. I would love it- especially the textural change on front.

theresa m. hall thanks for ur comments. We have one japanese maple to the left of front door. best seen in pic showing construction of garage. Where else would u add one?

therese m. hall Are u suggesting shutters like these board and batten style or stick with the style we currently own but just stain? Also had toyed with the idea of a garage corbels or trellis.

Hey there--

I actually really like your current garage door look: I think you were smart to coordinate it with the light-tone brick and trims that you've got going on across your facade, and the arched lites in the door create a carriage house feel that really compliments the overall style of your home. I wouldn't consider adding additional stone or wood at this time. Thanks also for the detail shot of your shutters - the moss green color is perfect, and didn't really read in the initial images. It's a great color that harmonizes really well with your softscaping.

What I would consider would be beefing up your lamppost - perhaps with a matching brick pier that coordinates with the house brick, or another statement (like edging your driveway in complementary brick) that helps connect the house to the very large, deep front yard. Since you have some existing birch trees clustered at the left of the property, I'd consider a small, grouped cluster closer to the driveway side, too - not to balance symmetrically, but to add further screening interest from the front elevation. With the same underplantings that you have closer to the house, that brings more interest closer to the roadway.

I'd also consider adding a plant border on the left side of your entry path, too, so that you have interest happening on both sides as you approach the front door as a guest. That should help soften its visual effect from the front, too. Cheers!

fairway style living...thanks so much for all the creative ideas. When u mentioned a brick lampost did u mean something short or tall? i am planning to trim the 2 shrubs to right side...close to garage and then remove the house numbers. What if we used the post shown in attachment with house letters instead of brick?
Another idea I just had was to add corbels and more copper roofing over 2 garage bays...see rough sketches. Thought??

fairway style living....here are more pics showing garage roof and corbels ideas.

I really like the thickness and heft of the stone lamppost image you shared, but I'd keep the height of what you have now (5' or so), so it maintains the same light throw where the path begins next to the driveway, as there's sometimes a slight separation there. Doing it in your current light brick makes it stately and connects it to the home's existing style.

I'd also put your house numbers on whatever's closest to the street - whether that's a mailbox, or if you were adding a pair of low lampposts flanking the driveway, that would be the ideal spot. Wherever they land, uplighting the numbers themselves with an angle-spot landscape light also helps people find them in the dark.

Not sure about adding anything to the garage area beyond a small planter between the doors themselves. It's not the focus of your home, and shouldn't architecturally compete with the main entry. The eye always travels to the most richly detailed area - you don't want that to be the garage section of your elevation since that creates unnecessary confusion.

fairway style living.. Thanks for comments.
I have attchd 3 pics. 1st shows lightpost, planter, thin band of metal roofing; 2nd and 3rd pic same but I removed the eyebrow roof window. What are ur thoughts on that window? Also the reason behind the metal roofing overhand on garage bays was to mimic the already smaller areas of it on original house. I feel like the addition is still missing something to connect the two. Yes I have the same brick but the garage area looks plain. Thanks

old pic of when we had a planter at garage

Thanks for sharing the other images - I do like the eyebrow feature; helps the eye find the main entry. Would not remove. Cheers - and good luck on your project!

I’m no professional, but my first thought would be to pull in a similar, not necessarily the same, color of your shutters to your garage-either the garage doors or the garage trim. Or, you could make the shutters more of a wood color and then pull that to your garage doors. If you are looking for pretty faux wood doors, I would recommend trying out CHI Doors. They have a driftwood color that is more grey that might go well, if you have greys, but it looks a little sage green? Not sure, either way, CHI dealers usually have a program where they can take your house and place their doors on it to see how it will look. Sherwin Williams also has a pretty decent color app that may help. Best wishes to you. Beautiful home

I came back to say that I believe painting the trim of your garage the color of your shutters would make allll the difference. I would try that first before I spend money doing anything else; that would tie it all together. Be sure to let us know what you decide.

My comment from the other thread on this home still applies.