For me, no shutters is a cleaner look, especially since you have wide trim.

^Agree.

If you do decide to add them, they need to be wide enough to look like they’d cover the windows, including the trim, if closed. Again, nicer with just the trim.

Honestly the mockup looks a little stuck-on to me. Shutters on just two windows while the garage and upstairs stay bare reads half-committed, and with that wider new trim the house already has a clean finished look. Leaving them off is fine. If neighbors' houses all have them and it nags you, do real-width ones on every front window, not just two.

“Every house like ours in our area have shutters on all the windows.”

Lots of houses have shutters that shouldn’t. The only windows on your house suitable for shutters are the two uppers. The beefed up white trim on them is enough. The other windows on your house are the wrong style and size for shutters.

This might be helpful.

Link - Residential Shutters

I think your house looks better without them. i like your new trim very much.

Agree with no shutters, and I like the garage doors painted to match the siding. You said the first picture is current, so the arches have been removed, which is a good choice.

To my eyes, the two more-slender entry columns look too close together. If possible, I'd like to see them moved to each side, leaving a generously wide entrance between them, with a thicker post added at the far right, matching the one at the far left. Then a widened walkway would enhance that sense of a broad, spacious entrance. (Pavers echoing the brick colors would be nice for that, but I didn't draw them.) There could then be larger decor where the pumpkins are, to draw the eye to the door.

I would probably also eliminate the horizontal white trim on the upper left bump-out, using the house color above the windows, and for the bottom edge, either the house color or perhaps charcoal to continue the horizontal line of the lower roof. Something like this?

(This image is human-drawn, not AI.)

agree with ^ @simplynatural No shutters and paint the garage doors the same color as the siding. Looks nice.

Make that three -- no shutters, paint the garage same color as siding.

Yes, meant to say garage doors same as siding to take some focus from them.

@simplynatural some much better without that white belly band but I would do it the house color

No shutters!

Very nice home. Leave shutters off

Agree on no shutters. I would consider painting the porch entry double pillars the siding color to eliminate those white details visually. Then add pots of colorful plantings to porch entry for welcoming look. Change out seasonal plantings for fall and Christmas. Garage doors best in siding color.

You rarely get 100% consensus of the design forums ... another vote for NO shutters!

I say no shutters. When I bought my home in late 2020 the longtime outdoor shutters were removed from the windows. Every one of my neighbors has those shutters but they are decor only as they could never cover a window if they were able to be closed, and they cannot. So when I had to make a decision I looked at my shutter-less house and then up and down the street. It took me less than a minute to realize how much cleaner and more beautiful my home looked without them. I made the right decision.

No shutters on your lovely home. Shutters are not decoration. Shutters are architectural and belong on a traditional style home. Shutters should not be vinyl, attached to the siding, and should have appropriate, authentic hardware. Your home, a raised ranch, was not meant to have shutters.

My one thought is the white of the garage doors: