The "walk" is seriously undersized and looks improvised, cheapening the look of the house. Would you consider building a new walk?

Not really because we really don't want to spend a bunch because we will not be living here but a couple of years and we are going to find a bigger house. We just want something simple across the front to make the house look a little less plain. Thanks

Yardvaark makes a good point, however I understand your position. Perhaps just a few more (matching) pavers to enlarge the landing? (i.e., widen the walk where it turns to meet the porch.)

I may do that because it shouldn't be to expensive to just add a few to what is already there because they look like pavers that I have seen at my local lowes before. What about any ideas as far as shrubs or flowers? In my mind I would just like some small shurbs/flowers in front of the porch and maybe some bigger shrubs in front of the rest of the house and maybe some small seasonals to fill in between the bigger shrubs.

I agree with Yardvark, that entry is so cramped considering you have a large yard in front of it. Do you own the house? if so you might find that spending some time and not that much money to redo that entry would pay off when you get ready to sell. A proportional, inviting entrance is a very subtle cue to people about the worth of what they are looking at and could enhance the value of your house.

At minimum that's what I'd do ... add more patio blocks. It would be good to lengthen the whole walk one more block. Then fill in the whole opening with more blocks at the right half of the porch. Then, there is not any more room than for just those hosta that you're going to make. If you have any more room there, it could just be low annuals. Adding a couple of small trees (shrubs that will become trees), a shrub below the window, some groundcover and maybe some perennials at the corner and you're done.

Yardvaark, what type of shrubs and everything do you recommend as far as everything you put in the pic? Like I said before I don't have a green thumb so I really want something that is fairly low maintenance. This is my first house and my first time ever doing anything like this so I don't know anything about any flowers or shrubs so that is why I keep asking all these questions. I appreciate all of the help I can get.

Since we have no idea where you are, it is impossible to make appropriate suggestions. Visit your local nursery, take your photos and ask for their suggestions. And do some research before you plant so you know how to take care of whatever it is you get.

Ok, like I said I'm new to this so I didn't know that. Thanks to everyone for all of the help, I am going to head to my local nursery and see what I can find and go from there. I really appreciate all of the help.

For specific plants, you might check the garden forum for your area. I'm in Texas and an eastern exposure with morning sun is a primo gardening spot, but plants that I would use here wouldn't work for you.

The Great Lakes Gardening forum is fairly slow, but maybe they just need someone to ask a question.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/grtlks

Here's the Midwest Gardening forum

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/mwgard

Here's the Minnesota Gardening forum
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/mngard

I hope that you can get some good solid plant suggestions from those who garden in a similar climate.

Ooops, I confused your post with someone from Michigan. Maybe these are helpful or maybe the wrong locale. At the left top area of the landing page for this forum, you can click 'Garden Forums' to see the complete list of Garden Web forums dedicated to gardening.

I'll toss out a few possibilities of what plants could be like, AS EXAMPLES. The shrub below the windows could be Japanese Spiraea or dwarf Rhododendron. The small trees could be lilac or crape myrtle. The yellow stuff at right could be 'Stella d' Oro' daylily. The groundcover could be Vinca minor. Don't use any of these unless you verify that the grow and perform in your locale. If they don't, you can study about them and find something similar that words. And go to your local garden center for recs. as suggested already. The yellow stuff at left would be low growing annuals, whatever is available at your location.

Or, you could go out of your way to do a little research and choose plants that help the environment ... i.e., the beneficial insects, pollinators and butterflies currently being threatened, and the birds, all of which are parts of the web of life that supports us. Every one of those plants mentioned above, except the rhodie, depending on variety, is a non-native plant that probably has no environmental value save aesthetics. And you can't eat aesthetics.

Worth the read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/opinion/in-your-garden-choose-plants-that-help-the-environment.html