Ideas we like for the front door

Your door selection should be something charming to compliment the style of your home.

IMO you really need to tackle the arched center window. The grid design doesn't even match the rest of the windows. I might eliminate the grid.

I would consider a limewash with some of the brick exposed to provide a vintage appearance.

Don't square anything off. The arched window over the door echoes the arched window to the upper right. That mass is asymmetrical. The two arches make it look intentional, give it balance. Without the repeating pattern, you'll have two mismatched windows oddly placed in an asymmetrical mass. The smaller, higher arched windows match.

You have an asymmetrical house with good balance. Mess with it and you'll lose the balance.

Your landscaping looks uninspired, but it could just be winter, when no landscaping looks inspired. When looking at before and after photos, like the first one you posted, always pay attention to the elements that are not about the house, like house in shade with brownish lawn and dark windows in the before and bright light, green grass, and warm golden light from the windows in the after.

The 90s is fine. You house is great. "Updating" and "modernizing" are ways to sell TV shows. Did you know sll the verbiage about openness and "flow" came from HGTV's discovery that men liked to watch sledgehammer scenes? You need a reason to knock down walls other than "it improves the demographics of our viewership".

The doors you're interested in are not in keeping with the style of your house. They would go in a MCM house. No matter what you do to your house it is never going to be MCM. If you square off one of the round topped windows you have to square them all off. You will also then have to paint or schmear the brick because you'll never find brick that matches exactly to fill in the parts that used to be round. When you paint brick you create a periodic maintenance requirement where there wasn't one before - if you do it once you will have to do again and again.

enlarge the lights, do not put a modern front door. maybe shutters?

Yes it’s winter here in Cleveland, so the landscaping looks much better when it’s green. Thanks for the advice on the arch.

It looks like you have a great treed backyard. Do you honestly think that you’d use a sitting area in the front? Just a thought…..

Yes, I believe I would use the area. The girls play out front quite a bit, and it gets the afternoon/evening sun that the backyard doesn’t. With regard to the arched window, what, any grids would you recommend? Should the be the same as the front door or the rest of the windows? It’s hard to tell if I should consider them a package vs two separate entities

To change the brick color, check with Romabio for masonry paints, washes. Lantern lights should be 1/3 of the door's height.

Nicole, I came upon this in my search for how I might fix my similar home and thought " I swear she lives in the neighborhood....or at least in Cleveland area! And then I saw your reply saying you are in Cleveland! Ugh...Did you do anything? Would love to know how it turned out!