Wow now we can see the front, I think you should use the double garage for parking with side access to the garden to unload shopping etc. Remove the other roller door and carport, replace the carport with a pergola,. As previously suggested make lovely garden path access from the new front gate which would be to the left side of the picket fence, , Run another courtyard fence off the garage so that you can plant this area and include a clothes line, this now the rear entrance to the house. At the end of the new pathway to the lane side of the house, extend the deck and add stairs so that you come from the pathway up onto the deck on the old carport side. All that parking drive way parking space could be a lovely out door area. Paint the garage doors and gutters on both buildings grey to match your roof.Use a fence similar to this with a gate at the front and between the neighbours to the left. cheers,

It's the landscaping I'd look at. The right (arched) side of your house is much prettier than the garage side, but is largely obscured by letter boxes and planting. The front path is an after-thoughty offshoot of the driveway. So from the street your focus is pulled to the wrong side. I'd demolish the mail box, and create a new pathway from the street to the front door, with pretty planting either side. Move the small tree in front of the door elsewhere, and keep the plantings in that bed low. Then paint the front door a bright colour, (yellow? turquoise?) to draw attention to it. Does the driveway need to be so wide, or could you curve in one side or another to expand your garden beds? Your lawn/existing beds are in fantastic condition btw. I don't love the driveway brick colour against your house bricks either. Don't really know the solution though.

It might be nice if you removed the awning on the left near the bottom of the stairs and replaced it with a pergola painted in black. I was going to mention the security screens but you have that covered already. I agree with also doing something with the driveway. We had an ugly black cobblestone driveway and replaced it with a light coloured exposed aggregate with a few black specks and it totally changed our house

When I read the heading and the first few sentences , I thought OMG -- orange bricks and an orange terracota roof ! But yeah , I'd call that a blonde , with regrowth on top haha ! So its reasonably pleasant , but what to do ? Dark windows would look good , BUT even then , the overall design and even the window size all screams 80's , so you'd spend $20k or whatever to do the whole place with new windows , and it'll just be modernised 80's . And to expand on that , what Julie Herbert alluded to -- the gardens and fence look 80's too . The front fence also looks oranger than the house too -- are they exactly the same as the house , or newer and/or oranger ? One possible 'tie-in' would be some long and low panels of Coloursteel where the rails are ( basically , keep the bricks on the fence , just do in-fill panels in Coloursteel , only going the same height as the pillars ) . The roof looks a charcoal , so I'd stick with that in coloursteel for the roof , IF GOING IN THAT DIRECTION . Why I say that is because I actually think the roof would look okay if you added some mid grey terracotta tiles -- go for a speckled look . Those light grey ones would look too harsh a contrast IMO , but go go mid grey and the existing charcoal would look 'interesting' IMO , it may be cheaper than a full coloursteel roof ( you'd want to check the labour cost though ) , and if say 80% of the existing tiles can be re-used , its probably better both cost but also waste wise ? And that leaves the brown -- obviously , go charcoal there too , along with more modern plants and garden design . And while some people criticise me , because I often say do a 'sunny' ( bright red , yellow or orange ) front door , not only will it look better , it changes peoples focus , so the less attractive features aren't noticed as much -- whether passer-bys love or loath the bright front door -- they'll look at it and comment , rather than noting the brown base or orangey fence bricks .