That's an awkward puzzle. My guess is that coats will end up draped over the railing eventually.

Or.

Do you have a front porch/stoop that you could enclose as an entry/foyer room with either closet or hall tree or other coat rack ?

Coats always get hung there and as you can see in the photo, my husband leaves his boots there as well.

There is a front stoop. I hadn’t thought about extending the room. Here’s the outside.

Create a new room by creating a wall at the front of what is now porch and move your front door into that wall and create a cased opening where the front door is now located.

Then, create a new front porch about 6' deep -- this time in front of and all across the right front wing of the house -- entry level part of the house.

You could use one wide forward facing gable over that wing of the house with its roof ridge level with and at a right angle to the current center (left/right) ridge of the roof.

or

You could use a shed roof with a smaller gable on the roof only over the front entry ... the width of the current porch. The porch floor and steps could be made of the rounded edged treated deck lumber if you don't want to rebuild it with concrete.

When you rebuild your steps and sidewalk, instead of having them immediately turn toward the driveway, have them go straight out into the yard so that they turn only after they're closer to ending at the door of a vehicle parked in the driveway. You can use a couple of the existing steps immediately beside the driveway ( left in place and exposed but not used as steps) as place for flower pots and/or or a rectangle planter.

If you don't want to build a new front porch, perhaps you could enclose only half of your porch -- enough for a walk space and a closet or coat rack or hall tree beside that -- and leave enough room to step out to a level place -- maybe 3' -4' stoop -- before going down the steps.

I talked to the hubs about this tonight and he’s actually in! Thank you for the idea! I’ll keep you posted.

Great. Let us know how it turns out.