Simply removing the clutter and pruning the roses would make an instant difference.

I would get rid of the little patio area and the raised bed on the right.

From where the above picture was taken, move the camera to be in line with the center of the "courtyard" space. Now move about 10' farther forward. Take a series of slightly overlapping pictures that aim from far left to far right (where neighbors' houses show in background) and post those. Don't substitute a computer generated panorama. We need to see the full size pictures.

The Japanese maple directly in front of the entrance (as viewed from street) does not seem helpful for making the house look inviting and welcoming. I would consider changes to the bed line.

Was the patio put in by you and others? How is it used?

I would not build something to outline the patio. You have a garden to do that. Most gardens don't look at their best in early spring, when plants haven't leafed out yet. You could put something like artemesia to edge your planting beds. That would be an outline.

I'm not sure the yellow really goes. I'd be inclined to paint the bench and the table on the porch a blue that goes with your shutters and punch up some color with a pink that matches the tulips (or whatever color your roses? are they roses? will be). Like with pillows on the bench.

You have a lot of items in your entryway. My observation is that elegant entries have a few bold, coordinated items. You have 4 stools/tables, 2 of them with empty urns on them. The table is above the window sill. It looks random, not designed. The urns go well will your house color, the yellow table doesn't. It's hard to judge what you should keep, because maybe you use that table often.

And, of course, a lot of the great pics you see on Houzz are staged and professionally photographed. It you removed the yellow table and whatever table is in the corner by the door, bought big bouquets of flowers in colors that go with the house (a lot of tulip pink, a dab of blue) for the urns and placed them carefully, got the bow on your wreath to match, and took a pic from the right angle on a sunny day, you'd have a pretty impressive picture.

One makes sacrifices in order to acquire benefits they deem necessary. While I can agree to having a patio space if one found it useful, this particular patio space is laid out to be a real landscape killer. If you never use it, and don't intend on using it, how is its existence worth the fact that it puts severe limitations on basic landscaping? To me, it wouldn't be worth it. I also find the walk layout to go against good art. It does not suit the house or flatter it. Would you consider renovating the hardscape in order to having something that makes more sense and looks better?

In asking you to provide additional pictures, I was trying to get you to show us everything as a single connected scene ... like what we would see if we visited the site. But the left side is missing and the view toward the right does not pan far enough to include the background material of the scene. We should be seeing the front of the neighbors' houses in the background, which would also include the farthest extents of your own yard. We see some of the right side in other pictures, but that's useless for giving you pictorial feedback as part of the main scene.

It would also be good for you to back way up (sometimes you have to cross the street and be in the neighbor's yard) and take a separate picture that shows all of the front yard in that one picture.