Steve, because of your roof slope, only a sort of tropical flattening of the slope as it rolls over the porch area will allow you to have a deep front porch with a cover. I think it will make the living room even darker (see the behemoth next door) and may not be your best charm move. You could do a cool modern deck porch and hang something like a retractable awning that would be swell and not ruin your interior . . give you a better landing pad outside the front door. I kind of like the side door because of the charm of the round window you would lose otherwise. With a beautiful color on the door - like eggplant with the grayish green stucco you have - eggplant would be gorgeous on the door. You might do a modern trellis over the entry where the aluminum is now - best to take that down as it dates the house or until you are ready to replace with somethign you are set on , you can paint it out with some orb rustoleum spray paint. http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/caponata#ce_s=caponata is the front door color you want . .
then use orb spray paint on the metal railings until you can rework your front - here's an image of a cool front deck that is easily doable for you and brings the edge you want . . You might need to do a light well for your basement window through it however . . . try this all along the front [houzz=] with the steps bringing you up from the outside of the walk - they will be sit steps - you could go about 18' deep with the deck and put some planters across most of the front right edge to provide some privacy - even put a trellis over the sitwall / planters integrated into front edge of the deep deck but not all the way back to the house to keep the light flowing in - or go for something more modern along the front edge in keeping with the character of the original bungalow .. [houzz=]