Excute the poor drawing skills. I'd landscape the heck out of that side porch and underneath the porch. Potted and shrubs and trees are great.

Your house has the challenge of finding the right colour to complement your stone. I'm assuming you're keeping it. My home, and many others in my subdivision, have a stone similar to yours with varied orange tones, and also an area of lighter coloured stucco trim. There are some spectacular colour fails in my neighbourhood where people have tried to match one of the stone colours , or gone a little lighter and ended up with peach coloured stucco, or flesh coloured when it went too pink. Dark gray trims look awful, and some of the browns are too reddish.

Our decorator chose a colour called Oxford brown for the dark trims and the garage door, which looks great. Not too orange, but looks good with the orange trim. Brown colours are tricky, because they can go too red, too orange etc. https://icolorpalette.com/color/oxford-brown

Our stucco is the original builder colour so I don't know it, but it's very pale and a bit creamy.

I'd try to reduce the number of colours that you have showing. For the garage door and entry door, paint the trim the same colour as the door. not a contrasting colour. If you can paint the white window trims in the same colour as the stucco, that would look better.

I would split the stucco in half visually by painting the bottom portion a dark brown to blend in with the railing, and paint the garage and entry door the same dark brown. As you can see, my browns are too pink. Use big swatches before you commit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9tTNk10J0E.

I'd go with plants on the deck. Unless you need it all for parking, I'd reduce the amound of cement in the front yard and replace with grass or a groundcover with some walkways.

You can move the electrical service. It won't be cheap but it's an eyesore.

Why have a deck wrap around the house unless you can get to it from the side of the house? Doesn't appear to be deep enough to accept furnishings, and you don't want to be looking at the driveway, do you?

We had our electrical box moved. An electrician moved ours and then I called the power company to put our lines underground. Expensive, but definitely worth it.

You could cover the electrical box and most of the lines with a tall, wood slatted screen. Here's a DIY Project that uses cleats so it can be removed. You could also attach hinges to some slats in case certain sections need to be opened.

Because your main entrance is on the side of the house, you could add a similar screen on the right side of the driveway and dress it up with lighting, pots, landscaping, etc. to direct guests to your entry area.

Black trim:

Wall before panel and after:

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I think this color scheme looks good with the stone. The address number screen could be the same color as this front door.

The balcony looks like a good place to watch basketball shootouts!

Thank you for the suggestions! The house is stucco so we don’t really want to paint it due to price and the fact that it’s not usually recommended. That part of the deck is just a path from the back patio to the front patio. So there isn’t room to add furniture. The layout is a bit odd but the views are beautiful every direction. Our whole electrical is a mess, so moving it might be in our future. I like the idea of a screen if we don’t move it anytime soon. Is there an app that JT7abcz used? I love how you put everything together.

Thanks Katrina! I used Microsoft Paint. I understand your reasoning for the deck, there is something magical about gaining a bird’s eye view of beautiful surroundings.