I meant to add a photo of the back and the new windows (bronze replacing white, obviously mid-job), and possible ideas for front door. I would like just a plain farmhouse-y looking door like the second pic, but I don’t have any grilles on any other windows, not sure I like the feeling of adding them to just the door. What I really want is something like the third pic, I think, but haven’t found it in the Trustile catalog yet. (Not wedded to Trustile, but I have liked my Marvin people out here with the windows and installers, so would like to stay with them if possible.) Planning to replace inside 6-panel doors with some 3- or 4-panel jobs, so I like the horizontal idea.

I like both your screen door and the white farmhouse door you posted. Is the tan door the only access into the garage? If there is another way to get in from inside the house, consider making that door match the window by your actual front door. If you could get black out glass or add one way film to it, no one could really see into the garage and it would just look like another window.

I can get into garage through the inside but it is a very awkward (again) route through narrow hallways with tight corners, so that tan door ends up being much more useful. I like the idea of a one-way window. That said, unknown people come to my door maybe only a few times a year. I would be more concerned about a bear breaking the glass, lol.

There is nothing farmhouse about the house. I would do a full glass storm and front door. Also, the front porch is not meant for sitting. It’s a walkway from the driveway to the front door. Remove all seating and get a larger log holder. It’s really cluttered looking. One planter in the corner would be fine, and a door mat to anchor the front door and make it clear that it’s the front door. With that many doors and angles, you need to keep it simple.

If the garage door and its trim were painted the same as the house, you’d hardly even notice it (well you would because you know it’s there but it wouldn’t yell door quite as much), I like the big window, you have other big windows so it looks like it belongs and being right beside an actual door it doesn’t look like it’s pretending to be anything other than a big window. The design of the screen door though looks like when people have a door to a balcony that hasn’t been built and they put up that guard so you don’t walk out and drop a story. Maybe if it’s the same color as the door itself it won’t look so ‘do not enter’.

I would paint the garage entry door and it’s trim the siding red so it disappears. If you don’t need the light from the window, ( you already have it covered with a blanket) frame it all in. Make the entry door half or full glass.

If it’s the best place to sit in the afternoon, expand it to make it handle foot traffic to the front door and in addition, a beautiful, relaxing place to sit. It’s too small to do both right now, and the landscaping detracts from what looks like a stunning view.

Paint over the white trim around the 'useless' door-shaped window, using the same color as your siding so it doesn't stand out. What an awesome view, I'd want to see it as often as possible!

My suggestion is to concentrate on landscaping. It could drastically improve the look of your entry.

I agree with the cluttered and crowded feel. There shouldn’t be anything blocking the view of the doors of someone walking towards them from the driveway.

So, think outside the box. If you want some seating (I would - what a stunning view!), arrange it on the OUTSIDE of the current paved sidewalk. Where the fluffy white doggie is. Remove, or move, those little shrubs. You could invent a charming seating area with pavers.

Wow, those views!

Your house does not in the least look like ass, it’s very charming and fits the setting well. I like your seating areas.

I have that rug (the bigger one) at your front door, except in gold. :)

Changing the windows will make a huge difference, and painting the trim something besides white. I’d leave the front window as is. Maybe add a matching screen door on the door going into the garage? Or replace it with something nicer looking. It won’t confuse anyone, your front door is obvious, but it needs some charm. I’d treat it more like a patio door.

I like this door from Trustile for the front door:

Or this:

Landscape changes would make the biggest difference. Where your sweet doggy is — a nicely shaped bed there.

A bad example, but this size …

I’d paint your garage and front door lights black or bronze.

Lots of rustic style houses here, might provide some inspiration:

https://www.houzz.com/photos/rustic-exterior-home-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_736~s_2111

Just red ones:

https://www.houzz.com/photos/rustic-exterior-home-ideas-phbr2-bp~t_736~s_2111~a_88-1

Also google ’red rustic houses’ for others.

Wow, those views!! I agree that painting the garage door the same color as the siding will make it recede visually. Then the focus can be on the entry door.

Awesome, I never even thought of painting that garage door red. I plan to paint the other white window the same bronze as the new windows, but my local sherwin-williams was unable to pull up all the matching colors, so I am going to have to figure that one out in the next few days. At least it will look more normal until I replace it (if I do). I think it’s so weird, but the rest of you don’t seem to?

And yes, landscaping is needed and will happen, but I need a new door first (at least I need to order a door, and then wait for a year or two). I have a vintage ski lift chair that will be refinished and most likely hung as a porch swing, and yes, planning to take out a bunch of that “grass” there. (Nice views, but no water.) The backyard is smaller and I have been focusing on that so far.

As far as the entry door — I could do just the same as the back door (full glass trimmed in bronze), which would be easy and match the rest of the windows; I just felt like some wood would warm things up a little. But perhaps that could be done with the landscaping and moving the wood pile back in front. I don’t love it there, it gets messy and rodents like to hang out in it, but I guess it isn’t so different from where it is now. Maybe a wooden bench rather than black? It’s falling apart anyway.

Landscape idea...to extend the porch overhang visually into the yard with seating on white tumbled marble gravel and place two colorful Adirondack chairs on it. Paint the weather vane and the bench on the wall both white.

Draw a line from the post parallel to the weather vane wall and the same length. Then from the corner to the left of the planter draw another line so it makes a square, with the post and corner defining it.. Outline the square with bender board, cover the dirt with weed block fabric and fill it with the rock. Remove a couple of those plants for access. Or the seating area could be curved but ending at the same two points.