I guess I should have mentioned that these photos are the front and back of the house.

I’m commenting mostly hoping that it generate some attention from the pros to your posting. What a great setting, your views must be spectacular. Perhaps you could tell us how you will use the front - will you actually use the porch? Or will it mostly function as curb appeal to lead to your main entrance? Do you have plans for landscaping? It’s best to incorporate the entry and the landscaping into one plan even if you complete in stages. And could you post a color of the planned front door?

Thank you for your response! Yes, the views are incredible, we look over Baker City to the Wallowa mountains. Truly spectacular! The porch will be the main guest entrance. Although we won't be using the space as a sitting area, we think it needs to be substantial to suit the rest of the house. My plan for landscape is to keep it very natural to fit in with the surrounding hillside. (No lawn) We have some locally sourced boulders and a lovely weeping white pine, some aspen, and maybe later on, a water feature in the righthand corner by the garage.

This photo is taken from the front entry hall.

I'm not sure how to send the color of the Jarrah, but it'd a dark mahogany and will have three frosted glass panels..

Again, thank you for your interest in our project.

Lynette

Anyone else interested in offering an opinion?

It seems to be complete except for landscaping. How would you add a porch at this juncture?

IMO now just some fab landscping to suit the terrain and lead to the entry I think instead of a porch I would use this as inspiration for some really awesome landscaping to balance out the fab view on the other side

I really like Patricia’s example - I wonder if you could a similar look with a pergola instead of a porch.

Any water feature should make sense. Would a pond or waterfall erupt from your garage? I think not. A purpose built fountain with a modern structure, perhaps. A dry stream of rocks, as suggested above, perhaps. Just my opinion…. What a lovely view!

We get a lot of snow in winter and the entry faces west, so its hot. We need a porch for protection. Our lanscaping plan is for a few trees, boulders and native grasses, somewhat similar to Patricias suggestion.