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Improve curb appeal of garage prominent house and hidden front door

4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago

I love the inside of the house, but the outside needs curb appeal improvement. I’m not a fan of how the front door is hidden, and the emphasis is on the garage doors. An idea I had is to make the smaller garage door into a front door, with a porch in front that swings to the right side. Any idea how much that would cost? That would mean I lose a garage space though.. Any other ideas that might be cheaper? The garage doors definitely need to be updated, I’m thinking farm door style with windows on top. Any landscaping ideas to help?






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  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    I like this concept ^^^. The ball shrubs do a good job to hide your front entry - remove them and make a nice wide attractive walkway towards the entry.

    And of course paint the garage doors to match the house. The contrasting color makes them stand out.

    Also, maybe you need something on the wall (left of that folding chair) for people to look at and walk towards. A destination - something that lets visitors know that yes, they’re headed the right way. I’m not sure what - a big wreath? And a nice colorful LARGE rug, both on the surface where the chair is and in front of the door.

  • 4 years ago

    Do you have an actual foyer inside? Looks like that space in front of the door would make a foyer and the front door would move to face the little chair. Then cover the cement walk with pavers, slate, flagstone or whatever suits you and take the walk straight out to the street. That will leave a flower bed space between the walk and drive to lead the eye to the entry. You could also add climbing roses to the stone columns to pull guests that direction.

  • 4 years ago

    This is what the front door entrance from inside looks. I like the way its facing the stairs now


  • 4 years ago

    Match the color of the garage doors and their trim to the color of the house. Pull out the bushes in front of the walk and extend the walk down the driveway. Redo the flower bed in front of the window.

  • 4 years ago

    If you like the way it is now, just consider the other things I suggested without utilizing that enclosed porch area. You do need to decorate it a bit though. Maybe a bench opposite the door upholstered in Sunbrella fabric that picks up the color of the door.

  • 4 years ago

    Remove the shrubs in the bed next to the drive. Grow lawn there.

    The bed next to the chair is not attractive. I'd make it deeper and grow medium height perennials there. Nothing to block the window.

  • PRO
    4 years ago

    Emmarene has nailed this. Look at the first picture and see how the bed and plants (next to drive) pinches off access to the entrance. Would be so much better gone and the path to the entrance opened up to look like it's ready to receive people.

    The bed next to the chair looks very out of touch with the window, and as if it is leftover from years-ago.

  • 4 years ago

    Those are good ideas. What about making the side window into a bay window? Will that make a big impact?

  • 4 years ago

    I wouldn't add a bay window. The house doesn't need changed,

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    The only construction change I would make is to box in the stone posts. To my eye they look very odd - just random shapes of stone glued onto the posts.

    Larger light between the garage doors.

    Good ideas above. I would just paint the garage doors and trim, not add fancy windows to them. You want to draw attention to the right side of the house, not draw attention to the garage doors.

  • 4 years ago

    Agree the garage doors need to match the siding. Based on partim's mockup, you'd still have solid "walls" of garage door. IDK...windows across the top could help break up the walls.

  • 4 years ago

    You do need windows in garage doors. My husband likes the ones you can see out of when you are in the garage. That is what we have. The neighbors have the high ones and they look really nice, if you don't need to see out.

    It looks good with the bushes removes to open up the sidewalk.