Unfortunately both of those planting strips are too narrow and constricted making them close to useless for a decent landscape. Are you willing to remove and redo the walkway across the right front and quadruple the depth of the bed on the left?

We would be willing to expand the depth of the bed on the left and open to the idea of redoing the walkway.

@suzette , My first thought was exactly what @Christopher CNC said. I’m wondering if there’s a compromise alternative. That is, while quadrupling the size of planting bed on left, could it be enlarged enough to extend several feet past / deeper than the right side sidewalk front edge and continue over to the driveway? What I can’t tell is how wide the bed between sidewalk & garage is & how the sidewalk & yard ends or connects at the driveway - that little bit isn’t shown in your first picture. The view from the street (?) looking at house would be of a huge planting bed all along front of house and garage but from the driveway you’d see the sidewalk through the bed. Can’t tell how wide the sidewalk is either - maybe it could do with being widened with a border of brick on each side. @Christopher CNC is more than welcome to weigh in on the merits or issues with my idea & more consideration should be given to his opinion over my idea as he’s the one with the design and plant knowledge. I just like playing in the soil (it’s not dirt, it’s soil😊)

While you’re enlarging the left hand bed I’d also get rid of those edging blocks. A crisp cut edge would look far better imo and be easier to maintain.

Yeah, we are going get rid of those blocks. I like the clean crisp look myself.

I would bring the main walk straight out to the street and just use stepping stones through the bed around to the driveway. Line the walk with curving beds. Keep plants open and airy.

Yes a street view would be helpful. Leaving the walk on the right garage side and making a bed street side would help. In that case I would leave the walkway to the door open to the lawn and view from the street.

I'll post couple more pics later so you can see the street view, , etc.

I‘d avoid stepping stones ... unless you can guarantee that every future visitor arriving by car will be able bodied, nimble, not wearing heels, unladen, and unfazed by wet vegetation slapping them round the shins for 20 odd feet. And they’ll all need to have the same stride length.

Remove the bricks that line the left bed and expand it out. Just use a shovel and create a new curved line. Then go to a nursery and pick what you like, ask then what will grow the fastest and tallest and put those in the back, I loved that part.

I love this. I can't see the other side though.

Thanks guys. I see the general consensus is to widen the left side which looks much better and having clean line.

Here is the other side:

What do you think about bringing the flower bed on the left all the way over to the edge of that walkway instead of putting in a walkway in front of the steps.

If you do not want an additional walkway you can bring the bed across, but you should probably consider some step stones to allow a short cut through the bed.

I'm still going to keep the walkway on the right so I wouldn't need step stones.

If you connect the left and right side beds as a single bed across the front, you and anyone else who wants to go the left, to the lawn or to the street is going to be walking through the flower bed. It's a given. Leave that pathway open.

I'm not going to connect them. Here are some more pics.

You need trees. One off the left corner, 20' away from the house to help hide the blank wall of house next door and one on the right corner 20' away, out of the new flowerbed on the left of the walkway to the front door next to the driveway. You may could plant more in that expanse of lawn closer to the street.