The shutters are the wrong color for the house. In the pic, your house looks slightly lavender-tinged. I'm not sure that's what it is in real life, so hesitate to suggest a color. Yes, paint the garage door to match the siding.

I like a path and landscaping leading to the front door, which is where?

The grass looks white. I doubt it's snow. For landscaping advice, you need to tell us zone and nearest city.

Thank you Sigrid. The house is light blue leaning toward gray. The shutters are currently a cobalt blue. I’ve thought about a darker gray or true navy color for the shutters but am open to other ideas. The “front” door is on the garage side of the house - please see additional photo. We live at the New Jersey shore. The entire yard is made up of white stones. This is helpful for parking in front of the house but we would still like to add some form of landscaping for curb appeal.

I'd get a landscape plan and plant things into that gravel. I'd go for low-growing, drought-hardy plants (I'm assuming that the stone is because of drought). California and Southwestern landscape often have drought -tolerant plants in gravel. Bear berry and low-bush blueberry are pretty groundcovers that should do well for you. (Caveat, if that white stone is marble, it may make your soil alkaline, instead of the the classic Northeast acidic).

If you have a really thick weed barrier under that stone, you'd need to remove a fair amount for a tree, which I would plant.

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Thank you very much for those ideas. Much appreciated.

Here's an idea. Replace first story windows so all are the same length. I think the darkness of the brown wood garage door wakes up the house a bit. Cannot be sure, but it appears the chimney has been painted white? I colored it the same color as the siding. It blends in but perhaps add brick/stone?