Couple of improvements that would really help:

1) Paint the garage door to blend into the siding

2) Add a wide walkway and bring it straight down to the curb. Right now it looks like everyone has to access your front door from the driveway and there is no actual walkway - just that small landing at the foot of the stairs.

3) Landscape! You would be amazed at how much dimension landscaping adds to your home.

4) Bright entry door. Yellow, orange, blue, red, or green would really brighten up your front.

Here are a few insp pics for you:

^Yellow door with gray siding looks bright and cheery, same with green, orange or red.
^Nice wide walkway to your front porch that is a different material from the driveway for the best impact.

^Wide walkway and blue door looks serene.

When the pro's weigh in with their designs you will be amazed at the transformation landscaping can do for your home.

Good suggestions to widen walk and planting bed. No reason for everything to be scrunched up against the house.

To that end, I would remove the piece of porch railing that is to the right of the right post and widen the steps. It obscures the door. Making that opening more generous will make your entry more welcoming and visible. Orange, yellow, red, pink—go for a bright color on front door. Consider complimentary flower colours to really make things pop.

I also agree on repainting the garage door to make it less prominent. I would also relocate your flag to one of the other posts or the garage, again to open up your entry.

Consider deepening the planting bed by the left corner of the house by 10-15’ and incorporating a small ornamental tree to add interest and balance the garage. It could curve toward the entry, narrowing to 5 or 6 feet on the right. This will allow depth for an interesting planting scheme.

You want to try and draw the eye to the left, away from the garage door. Interesting hardscape for the entry would be good.

A darker or permeable surface on the driveway would also help, but is maybe a budget buster. : )

I would add a hanging basket between the right and middle porch posts to partially obscure the window behind and put the focus on the door instead.

Think about year round structure and interest first before buying any annuals or perennials. I’d address the bed size first. Then research and choose a tree for fall planting, next 2-3 small shrubs (at least 1 evergreen) or big grasses to add some oomph. Fill in as necessary/desired with tough perennials or groundcover and mulch the works to suppress weeds.

Be realistic about how much maintenance you want to have to do.

Cute little house. Lots of potential to add some wow without too much time or money!

Could you please post a current pic of your entire home from straight on?

Just offhand - Widen steps to porch, stop railing at last post, match garage door color to house, add additional walkway, raise existing garden barriers and most of all replace the white lattice with something darker. What color is the current garage siding?

some ideas:

Denita -I really like the Idea of widening the walkway...we never thought of that before I am not sure how far it should come out yet since part of our driveway is cement and the other part of it is white rock. We live out in the country in a nice little subdivision on a dirt road. In front of the house most of it is cedar trees. The door is a bright red right now but I am definitely open to another color for it. I am open to having the garage door a different color.. I have no idea what color to do, should I make it darker or a little bit lighter of a bluish gray?

Miz-G - Yes definitely a deeper bed in the front yard I am not sure how much bigger since I don't want to have so many flowers to care for the front of it is facing North but building it out wider could possibly put some of it out in the sun during the fall and winter... spring and summer it gets Sun closer to the porch.

Kaillean - I absolutely love the idea of taking out part of the fence and making a wider doorway...definitely the next project on my list!

phuninthesun - Thank you so much for showing me what it would look like with widening the walkway while taking the fence down to the post! The color of the garage siding and at the other end of the house is Benjamin Moore Pilgrim Haze. I wish I could take a straight on picture of the house but since there are cedar trees right in front of it I am unable but here is another view which hopefully helps..

^If you look at phun's pic, the garage door is painted gray to blend with your siding. I don't know which gray...but you would need to sample anyway.

Big Doug - Woowee, now that's one beautiful yard!! I love love the fence..is that wood or some sort of industrial material? The tree right there definitely brings it so the house is not so rectangular looking. I wish we lived in a place to make it look that beautiful. We have some cedar trees in the front and a slooped yard. I have to think of some way to incorporate that tree and the porch railing is another thing I am adding to the list. Thank you SO much for designing something like this for me!

Everyone has been so helpful and with many many wonderful suggestions..thank you!!

I would switch to a horizontal board porch rail as well. Very nice house. Try a sample of Benjamin Moore Eclipse for the garage door.

phuninthesun - It's incredible how changing the color of the garage door makes that much of an impact, thanks!

DigDoug or anyone else who might know, Could you please tell me where I can get porch fencing like the one you showed me because I have been searching but cannot find it, thank you!