Painting the door frames black might help. I'd pick a brightish color for the doors. A lightish slate blue, perhaps.

Window boxes are hard to keep looking nice. Your landscaping is boring. Those yew? hedges do nothing for the house. I'd put in some flowering shrubs , taller ones betwen the small windows and the bigger windows. Make sure you know the final height and what distance to plant from the house. Plant up your soul patch.

Of course, it might be full of lovely plants yet to emerge, nothing looks great on a dreary March day.

You can move the yews elsewhere. One flanking either side of the driveway entrance is a nice look.

I suspect you took a panaromic picture that is making a rectangular house have some odd angles and proportions. Also, you took the pic on a dreary day, which isn't helping.

I should have included that we began pulling out the old landscaping and plan to add new this spring/summer. We actually have a curved house. I'm going to post a photo of when we got the place. We have changed white to black and put on a new roof.

Thank you for the suggestions

When we bought the house in March of 2020

I'd change the black windows and downspout to white. The black doesn't work with that brick and looks institutional. Why are there two front doors? Is there any way to convert one door to a window so that there could be focus on whichever door is actually the front door? Agree that the window and door frames should match color. I think that landscaping is what is needed here. Plant taller things between the windows, and shorter under then windows. I'm not sure what all those short brick walls are blocking the view of the exterior, but if they could be removed, it would enhance curb appeal very much.

There are two front doors because the original owner had one as a formal entry and one as an informal entry. They are both now entrances into the house. The brick walls you mention are barriers to the courtyard on the front of the house (maybe we need to do away with the courtyard and make some sort of regular porch) Black windows, downspouts, etc are here to stay as they were recently installed this past year... we were going for a more modern look. Thank you for your input. New landscaping is in the plans for spring of this year. We've put over $100,000 cash into the house renovations so far so many major changes will have to be delayed.

It's a snowy day... but the sun shines bright on my Old Kentucky Home ☺️

I will try for more photos when the snow melts ☺️

I agree, it needs landscaping, and it may be a few weeks before you can get that done. It looks like you got this surprise snow overnight too. Its a pretty house. Add some nice brighter colored potted plants, and if there is room in what you are calling a courtyard, put some nice colorful furniture there, for a nice sitting type area.

It does look better with potted plants and when things are in bloom. We began removing landscaping in the fall and plan to replace it with different plants in the coming weeks.

You need to do something to help people know which do to enter through. Paint the other to blend with the house, and the "front" door a color?

I get the black is here to stay but now the house is lacking any contrast, it needs some color somewhere.

New landscaping ... will it avoid the mirror-image look? Your house is attractive but currently the same/same repetition gives the appearance of a duplex. If I were visiting I'd have no idea which front door to go to. Larger, more 'important' lights and large house numbers near one of the front doors would help in the short term.

Hi! I agree that it looks like a duplex. It's kind of unfortunate the original owners designed it the way that they did-- and they had built the same house 7 times in different states! We may eventually brick in one door. However, it really doesn't matter which door is used to access the house. Both doors have both have large entry ways (which is wasted space in the house).

We may need a landscaping architect to help design the new landscaping.

They built this same house SEVEN times? Wow, that's unusual. Duplexes are very popular locally and many people own both sides, live in one side and rent out the other -- lots of advantages to that arrangement. Now I'm being nosy so don't answer if you don't want to, but: is the inside of the house set up to split into two units?

Some people do that here as well- build a duplex and rent one side- live in the other. Smart investment.

It is not set up for two units. One side is bedrooms and bathrooms and the other side is living area- den, kitchen, dining room, two entry ways, hexagonal living room,laundry room and mudroom with a full bath.

The original owner literally had a formal entry complete with wooden parkay flooring and the other entry was less formal with vinyl sheet flooring.

Choose one door and emphasize it, likely the one near the public rooms, and deemphasize the other. Consider redesigning the exterior brick wall(s) to create a larger, more obvious entryway to the "correct" door, perhaps a little patio with a bench and some big pots.

Talk to a couple of local full-service nurseries. Many offer design services for a very reasonable fee, plus discounts if you buy plants from them. A professional design, even if you execute it over several years, will pay huge dividends.

That patio wall is sweeeet! Nice design and made from same orig brick as house. A simple fix would be to install a gate at the opening you dont want to use and put lights on the side you want used but not at the other.. I would not remove the wall or add more brick to make it higher. Conceivably though you could build some sort of pergola structure using the existing brick wall as foundation or base for the wood structure. The opening then becomes in essence your front door, so you would want to design it to serve same function of welcoming people to your home. If you do a pergola structure make sure to use a more contemporary design with wall slats running horizontally to fit with lines of your house. I love the concept of courtyards (common in mediterreanean countries) and outdoor rooms - with good seating this then becomes a second living room where your fam and guests can hang out in good weather.