West-facing in Georgia? I would want shade. (Choose trees that won't damage pavement, since you will be planting quite close to it. The 'Princeton' American elm won't, and it is resistant to Dutch elm disease.) Then, because I don't like either mowing around trees or mulch circles around them, I would convert the lawn to ground cover (pachysandra? vinca if not adjacent to natural areas?). I would add a brick walk bordered in light stone or concrete from sidewalk to steps, so visitors don't have to edge past parked cars to reach a walkway. (Would have made the walk wider, but I see what looks like a utility access cover in the way.) I would remove the stone mulch as inappropriate for the traditional style of the house, add an "anchor" evergreen shrub with a well-defined shape on each side of the entrance, and a larger, looser evergreen (rhododendron? mountain laurel?) at the left corner, with lower evergreens under the windows and something lower still (azaleas?) in front of the foundation beds. The goal would be a simple, traditional landscape in keeping with the traditional-style house, so it looks like it's been there forever. Like this?