I don't see a deck or patio. Do you intend to add an outdoor living space?

Yes I do intend to add a patio by the back door.

Okay, you need low maintenance foundation bed ideas and a location for a tree. Would you consider removing the shrubs in front of the house? Also, please give your location (nearest big city, state). Thanks!

I live close to Lexington, Kentucky. Yes on removing shrubs.

You have a large project here (to include the deck) and I wish you would hire a local landscape designer. They would give you a plan which you would DIY over several years as time and finances allow. I have a gut feeling that you're going to do this yourself without a designer to save money, which is why you asked for suggestions on Houzz. So I'll throw out a very mundane plan which will be easy to implement.

Round 1: Along the front porch I want six reblooming azaleas, three on each side of the entrance. They won't form a heavy row, they will be dotted along. Among them you will plant spring bulbs and summer annuals. My color choice would be pink to harmonize with other spring bloomers but you should pick your favorite color. They must all be the same color.

Along the side of the house I'd place yews with tall hollies at each downspout. Azaleas, yews and hollies are all highly amenable to pruning which is why I'm using those along the foundation. Mind, you're not planting them right on the foundation, you're placing them five feet out.

Next, I'm placing two kousa dogwoods in the lawn in front of the house. You could also seek out an anthracnose resistant cornus florida if you want to do a little legwork. Just don't buy a cheap native dogwood at a box store because it won't be anthracnose resistant.

On the lawn toward the left corner of your yard will be a semi-circular bed containing your weeping spruce, a couple more dogwoods and any cute evergreen shrub that catches your eye while you're out shopping for the basics. The nifty plants go out in the lawn where you can admire them while sitting on your porch, and their growth isn't constrained by proximity to the house.

In the backyard you need to build the deck and identify the septic field then we can talk next spring. If the leaning tree with vines in it (visible in the first photo) is growing on your property, please remove that this spring.

The plants in the hedge can be transplanted. You want to trim them back, and water a lot after transplanting. We moved our to in front of a neighbor's boring fence. Flanking a front walkway at the street is good, too. If you do that, make sure you use ones with a good root system. Not all you dig out will have good roots.

Thank you so much!! I really like the azaleas along the front porch!! Those are yews along the front so if I’m careful maybe they’ll survive a transplant to side of house like Sigrid suggested.

Hey Rena, I'm glad the bushes in front are yews: that means you don't have a serious deer problem. Definitely transplant them along the side and rear of your home. If you can do that in early spring (March) they will be fine. Remember, you're dotting them along spaced out; don't form a thick row like you currently have. In future years you can add daffodils and hardy perennials along there as well. This spring I'd just focus on getting the shrubs placed then pretty it up later as time and finances allow. When you begin redesigning your landscape, your extended family will likely decide you're a gardener and they will give plants as gifts and you can add those random plants to your beds also.