Plant a couple of trees. Fall is a great time to plant something that will have pretty blooms in the Spring. A crabapple (Prairie Fire).

Please give us your approximate location (nearest city & state).

Are you willing to remove the two dwarf Alberta spruce?

I am located in the Catskills in NY state.

If you put a path to the main door from the sidewalk either concrete or pavers it will help call attention to it vs the service door. Then you can put your shrubs and perennials around it.

Sometimes a straight path from the drive to the door is just too boring. Creating a walkway on the diagonal to the front door with a cut off to the utility door could help the yard.

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Thanks everyone for the great ideas. Celery, your rendered image is a huge improvement and is very helpful to see. Thanks for taking the time to do it! There are no sidewalks on our road. Would it look strange to have a pathway to a road without sidewalks? I have no idea about these things. Would it be preferable to have a curvy path to the main door coming off the driveway like Beverly suggested? Thanks again!

A few more pictures from different angles would be helpful, especially of the existing pathway. Is the existing sidewalk right among the house or is there a planting bed in between? Are you planning to remove the existing pathway? Depending on the width of the bed and whether you want to reuse the path, I think you need evergreen plantings all along to anchor the house to the ground visually. Taller in between the windows and at the corners.

A curved path is attractive but you may prefer a straight shorter one when you are shoveling snow. I would use separate round stones in gravel for a garden pathway, but would want a flat path that is smoother for a main walkway, for people who may stumble over an uneven path.

I think it would be odd to have a pathway to the street if there is no sidewalk.

Houses look best if the front door is emphasized, and other distracting features are minimized e.g. by painting them the same colour as your brick, or a dull dark brown. If the white item close to the garage is attached to the house, paint it brown. Consider whether you'd like to paint the secondary door brown too, to emphasize the front door.

I'd add a railing to the front door and paint it white. For safety and also to emphasize the front door. Something a little more decorative than the one at the secondary door. I'd stain that railing brown.

How much sun does the front of your house get? What direction does it face? Do you like to garden as a hobby or are you looking for lower maintenance?

If you put your zip code in the box on this map, it will tell you your USDA plant hardiness zone. Then let us know what your zone is and people will be able to give you better plant recommendations. https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/

And if you see a plant you like online, for example, you'll know whether it will grow well for you in your zone.

Zone is not a definitive guide to what you can grow. It only tells you what the average minimum winter temp is where you are. It gives no information on summer temps or rainfall. A reasonably precise geographical location is the best guide for plant choice.

Thank you for all the ideas. They are incredibly helpful.

I am attaching a drone shot of the house so you can see the sidewalk that is currently in place. I am not opposed to getting rid of it and putting in one that would look better. There is a currently a planting bed between both doors near the house.

When I put in my zipcode in the link you sent Partim it came back with zone 6a. The front of the house faces east so it gets lots of sun in the earlier part of the day. I do enjoy gardening but am still learning.

I like the idea of painting the service door to blend in with the house. Would the main entrance door look good with a pop of color? At the moment they both have white storm doors.

The railing by the service door is not permanent. It was put there for safety by the family of the elderly lady that once lived in the home. The ceramic container by the service door is no longer there.

We want to eventually landscape the backyard too. For now we are thinking of planting some green giants to hide the school bus company that is in the far back right of the property.

A few more photos of the current walkway from the driveway.

You will want railings on both stoops. This is a non-negotiable safety issue.

The walkway to the front door should be wider. That could be a long-term planning sort of thing.

The only time a walkway from the front door to the road is done is when the mailbox isn't at the driveway.

Don't plan on plantings near the road. You want at least 5 ft between anything and the snowplow.

Take the zone 6 with a grain of salt. Possibly a quite large grain of salt.

Evergreens are your friends. However, get hyperlocal input before getting into rhododendrons, azaleas, and others that need acidic soil. There is a lot of lime in those mountains.

Make sure you check shrubs against a reliable deer resistant list like https://njaes.rutgers.edu/deer-resistant-plants/ It isn't perfect, but is a good start.

Be sure that any beds you plant have at least 25% evergreen or more so that there is something to look at in the winter.

Thanks for the tips. They have given me a lot to consider.

I just read back over all the comments and am loving the idea BeverlyFLAdeziner gave about making a curved path to the main door with a cut-off to the utility door like in the second photo she attached. I am loving the gate and patio area with shrubs in front. Would this be suitable on my ranch? Thanks so much for that idea. I would not of thought to do that!

My parents repainted their storm door to match the wood door. The paint lasted for decades without chipping. It faced due south so blasting sun, and in Niagara so winter too.

Good to know Partim! This will be an easy fix to camouflage my service door.

What a difference! Looks great! Thank you for sharing you before and after pictures!

You have two big trees on the right side but nothing on the left, so your property looks unbalanced. You need something equally big to the left of your driveway or behind it. A basic landscaping rule is to always install the hardscape first, then the biggest plants (trees), then the finer details. I would plant a big tree or two on the left side now, so that it has time to grow while you are planning the rest of your landscape. Your place has great potential, with that wooded hill behind it!