Is this home in Australia or New Zealand?

You have posted on the Australian site. Try changing your country in your profile if you want comments from uk

You can change the country in the settings. You might get more appropriate comments on the UK forum. But from Australia have a look at Three Birds Renivations. Specifically their House 11. It had a high impact low cost exterior makeover that may appeal to you.

I realise you are UK based , but in my opinion you'd be best to keep most of the existing external features . So don't render , keep the windows in white , even the porch and front door all suit the style and era . If you try and go more modern , or more upmarket ( it already is better than average IMO ) , it will look too try-hard -- too much trying to be something it isn't .

Possibly , if replacing the wooden framing under the tiles , and you can reuse the tiles , go for it , or possibly do a gable on the upper part ( plasterboard and battens , maybe in a 'sunrise' pattern ? ) and then reuse the tiles on the lower part where the window is .

I can't quite work out what you are doing with the garages -- turn them into rooms , or do an upstairs addition and keep the garages ? If you are doing an upstairs addition , maybe 'reverse' what I said about the wooden tiles -- do the middle half of the existing upstairs , and the 'flat roofed' extension , in a plasterboard painted/rendered off-white ; and the upper gable in the tiles ?

Landscaping is easy -- just look at the English upmarket estates , so some 'shaped' conifers and maybe even a low hedge , a birdpond possibly , and spray and rake the driveway ( assuming you are keeping the garage ) ; or dig it up at least that last metre ( it would be a pain I know , but theres no real way around it ) , add topsoil , and grass and shrubs and maybe a narrow flowerbed -- basically , make it look like it WASN'T a driveway there .

Hello TF, I had this picked for English first up! The windows with the tiny opening section is a dead give away and the inside or outside: no porch is often an English thing too. I would suggest replacing window frames with white aluminum with the same proportions but the whole side sections hinging: way more fresh air and adjustable. Look if you can get 6.38 lam glass that has specs very similar to db glazing but without the price tag. Garage I understand you want to reno but not extend: add a roof, same pitch at the home, windows allowing, scrounge the tiles from somewhere if you can and rip out the two little doors, add steel and one wide remote controlled sect panel door with glass across the top. DO NOT render. It becomes a job for life to maintain and look horrid when it had issues! Now the entry: is that a built in verandah? if so maybe take it back to the original with a porch that can then look lovely with pots of colour, maybe some timber fretwork to match what you will put on the gable end too: sun ray as someone suggested. spot for shoes, brollies and coats. Clear glass or lead light to match sun ray or other motif on the door and clear glass. Go for a trad garden: lavender, roses, silver birches, lawn that you can grow all year around so well over there! (Not our stuff that dies off ever summer!) It is a wonderful looking home and one I am sure you will enjoy for many years. Love to see more of it. Cheers Margot PS where abouts are you?