I would get a new front door and lantern lights 1/3 of its height (add matching lights flanking the garage door instead of the motion spot,) add a walk out to the front curb, close up the windows on the garage door, and improve the landscaping with curved beds flanking the asphalt and walk. You should consider painting the dormers to match the roof shingles and recede. They are the first thing I saw, then the garage, and last your front door. That's backwards.

What addition??!!! I love the house! The front door looks out of place - what about a new color?

What color door would look okay? i love all things bright, but don't want it to look crazy.

Your oval glass in the front door makes a Victorian statement that doesn't go with the house. Search "mansard roof" here to find door styles that work better. Here's an alternative if you want to go big budget.

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Your house is so very like the one we left years ago in New Hampshire. We had no shutters on the windows but shutters on each side of the front door...and yes you need to find a more appropriate front door. Two light fixtures flanked the shutters on the door. We had a stone wall built on the left side of the house so that the flower bed on that side did not slope down. We lived 17 happy years in our Dutch Colonial; I wish you and your family the same.

German smear in creamy white, natural wood shutters, new door and light, and new garage doors without all the black hinges. You would have a beautiful home.