Can you post a picture with the house in sunshine. Posted picture is too dark to see much.

Climate is important as well. Approximately where are you located?

In addition to a better lighted picture, please tell us where you’re located, I realize you didn’t ask for landscape advice but someone will chime in, I’m sure.

Of course location would be helpful we are in Arizona

Here’s some better lit pictures

The current color is pleasant. I'd sharpen up the contrast with the trim. Then, I'd work on landscaping. Basically, anything you plant in that vast sea of gravel will be an improvement.

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Do something to highlight the front, maybe paint it a different color. It took me a while to find it.

Paint the front door?

What a lovely house!! A new garage door if it’s in the budget since it’s so prominent. Landscaping and maybe a blue leaning lavender for the front door?

Look at the boulder in the front and pull palette from there. Too much beige/tan. Garage door would be beautiful in a darker wood tone. Consider white with darker trim.

I came across this photo on Better Homes & Garden by complete accident while looking up something else. These look like plants that would thrive where you are.

I love @simplynatural's idea of lining the pathway to guide people to the door and the color coordination.

Adding a little to simplynatural's design: instead of where the boulders are, I would leave a strip of walkway along the driveway for guests and add flowering plants under the window, ones that won't grow so tall to obstruct the view.

You may also want to consider a drought-tolerant groundcover. I took my ideas from here:

https://www.highcountrygardens.com/content/gardening/customer-landscapes

This is my favorite one: https://www.highcountrygardens.com/content/gardening/growing-a-thyme-lawn and is in Albuquerque New Mexico, a very hot dry place.

I do not work for and am not affiliated with High Country Gardens.

Another thing I would like to note is garden designers say to base your design foundation on evergreens, especially for the front yard. To add herbaceous perennials and annuals for fullness and until the evergreens have time to grow and take up space.

I have no ideas for the shady area between the front door and garage. Maybe someone else here can address the best way to utilize and decorate that space. It would also help to know how big is it. As in, can you put an outdoor coffee table and a couple of chairs? Would you even want to sit there with guests (I don't know what you see when looking out from that area)?

I would also pick colors that not only highlight the pathway and complement your home, but also ones that would pop in the dark and in the moonlight, like yellows and whites. They really do make a big difference at night.

And stay away from prickly plants near the walkway. Obviously. lol

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Thanks for all the landscaping ideas does anyone have ideas on painting the house?

@Fori … agree, Az has wide variations in climate.

The home is in Mesa

Yes. Meant front door.

Here are HU-927437743's paint suggestions: creamy white walls, darker trim, dark wood garage door. (Will wood doors stand up to Mesa's climate?)

I’m thinking wood would not , but maybe the fiberglass ones would

Our 2d home is in La Quinta, east of Palm Springs, the garage doors (3) are wood, painted in a darker brown, wood. The wood doors have held up to the sun & heat, however, the paint fades rather quickly. I was just thinking they need to be repainted now.