Your house is lovely!
I like it the way it is. I’d focus more on landscaping.

And maybe a gable detail or dental molding or something.

Usually I don’t like shutters but on your house I think they look good.

@flopsycat1 said it perfectly.

I think your shrubs are planted too close to the house. When they're mature they'll touch it.

The red door is helping draw the eye away from the upstairs window. Upgrade and enlarge the portico and focus on the landscaping to keep the eyes on the entry and beds.

Have you considered moving the window so it lines up?

Old houses are quirky. Embrace the quirk! Cute house!

My mom would have said "You live on the inside, the outside is for your neighbors."

Older homes were so much more about functionality and less about impressing the neighbors than today's homes. My guess is that the window placement was chosen based on the inside layout. It wasn't until the 60s that the whole keeping up with the jones became a national pastime.

Thank you all for the feedback - I’m definitely planning landscape for the spring, and hopefully that will keep the eye on the first floor. I wish we could afford to move the window, since it also doesn’t line up inside, but we just don’t have the funds. And good to know about the red door helping - I’ll focus on the landscaping and inside per your words of wisdom!

I love your home just the way it is! I think the asymmetric look is interesting, and yes a nod to the past. More individual from todays cookie cutter houses, and jump on the bandwagon, farmhouse, gray, black, etc trends. In my opinion (not a pro) adding moldings would only make it cluttered looking. I like the elegant simpicity of it now, and yes agree your lovely red door and portico give just enough balance to the front facade.

Beef up the portico, and choose a less contrasting color for the front door. The red is just too bright. If you can enlarge the entry way, it will keep the eye down and no one will ever notice the upper windows. Lovely house!!

It’s an older home with details that add interest. I love the shutters and red door. It’s perfect as is.

It looks so nice! That red door really helps set things off the right way. And getting rid of the hedges just opens it up.

Love the door and shutters; it’s very charming as is.

If you can repeat the bright red door colour somewhere, it would look good. For example, add some bright red annuals (in-ground or in a hanging pot). I don't know your growing zone or your gardening style, but I have a soft spot for red climbing roses, maybe up the left side of the house.

Some red winter decorations would look good too - for example, candy cane decorations. And there are plants with bright red winter stems after the leaves fall e.g. red osier dogwood.

@partim, great ideas, although I dont have a green thumb, so time will tell if I can grow roses 😂

Winter interest can also be added with bushes that either have red berries in winter or red branches.

Holly and red stemmed dogwood are two that quickly come to mind. I know there are more, but I am crunched for time at the moment.

The shutters actually helped quite a bit. I like it as it is now, but better plantings on front and side will help - I would go for a casual mix of perennials and some annuals, varied heights and textures, with a few evergreen shrubs for "backbone". One thing you might do if the asymmetry continues to bother you is to plant a climbing flowering vine or rose on the corner next to the portico, and train it up on a trellis over the portico next to the window. Choose carefully though, don't plant anything that will grow really rampantly, need a lot of trimming, or dig its tentacles into the siding (like trumpet vine or ivy).