Thank you soooo much for replying! I do need a bit of light control and privacy- that large window is right outside the Master bedroom door. I thought about tenting the window but that wouldn't look pretty at all. I really want to decorate the outside in addition to the landscaping. Our neighborhood is full of amazingly gorgeous homes and I feel like my house looks so plan and boring as it is.

Yes to everything said by saypoint - classic is not boring. I'd investigate getting muntins/grilles for that picture window and the ellipse window above it to make them match the other windows. That's what's off to my eye - looks like that was an afterthought.

Oh my! I have never thought about adding muntins/grilles! That is a great idea!! Thank you so very much! How difficult of a project would that be? would that be expensive? Could I do it myself?

one more question, how would I do the grilles on the eclipse window? what about the two small windows on the sides, leave those blank?

I think you are being too hard on your new house. It's lovely. Like saypoint mentioned, the issue is not the house but your puny landscaping.

At this point, any decorative doo dads you add to the house are just going to emphasize the disconnect between the house and the lot. And TBH, they will look out of place on your classic home.

For $100, I agree that buying two large planters and filling them with colorful flowers and painting your front door will give you the biggest bang for your buck.

what color do you recommend for the front door?

Your house has a neutral background so many colors will work. Do you like navy? I think it would look fresh and different.

I do like navy, but I was thinking a pop of color would be nice- do you think navy would be too dark? I was wanting the door to pop a little since I have no shutters to offer any sort of color to the house. What do you think?

Your home is beautiful! Landscape changes will help.

It looks like you have a glass (storm?) door so the color for the door itself would need to be bright enough to be seen through the glass. If this is the case, then I would not pick navy, a brighter blue would work, but I would pick red, yellow or bright green. Just a matter of your taste.

Window boxes would be an easy way to add color and dimension to the front while preserving the integrity of the design!

https://www.urbilis.com/geo-windowbox-planter/

Please no shutters, it's perfect as is.

Urbilis, where would you place the window boxes? which windows?

Just say NO to window boxes!

Window boxes would work best on your single pane windows. You could go for both floors or just one!

No window boxes. Your question about where to put them suggests you are not a gardener. Window boxes will require that you spend a couple of hundred dollars every spring for annuals to plant them up, unless you have the space and light to start your own plants from seed. You will be watering them once a day EVERY DAY. Boxes on the second floor will require you to lug cans of water so you can water them from inside the house through the windows. I don’t even know how you would water the big center window as it appears to be stationary. Nice looking window boxes are expensive, the little plastic ones you buy at walmart are hideous.

I love windows boxes, I think they are beautiful if done well and kept healthy. I’m taking the four boxes off the front of my house this year because I don’t want to lug water and they are going to start rotting out the siding.