I do love stamped stained concrete, but if you live in an area that snows it does make shoveling and chipping off ice a little bit more difficult. The shovel gets hung up in the grooves made by the stamping. Have you thought of maybe a cooper for the window boxes and light? I like warm colors with orange brick.

How about a curved bluestone walkway? A classic for a classic house. Your house is lovely.

I love your house!

It reminds me of many in my area and where I grew up in another town. Tudor with a vestibule and front chimney is one of my favorite looks. I tried to find one like that when I was searching three years ago.

I once had a house with a similar walk/steps situation. I found a brick mason who laid brick pavers on top, after smoothing/repairing the concrete.

Since you aren't fond of your brick color -- You could also do the same with slate -- my current front steps were done that way (they were concrete and my walk was already slate).

In my area, $19 per sf is about the price of laying brick or stone, including the labor.

The house I grew up in was a similar style as yours and it was already painted white when my parents bought it.

Bluestone would look gorgeous with those stone (they look like marble!) steps!!

i'd have wider stairs to the front door.... the width of the base of the entry area. those look teetery, not something i'd want to attempt on a wet day.

You have a pretty house, very solid-looking. But you need a good railing on each side of your stairs - black matte wrought iron would be good. Where we live those stairs without railings would be in violation of code! Would also have new street numbers in a style that suits the house.

For landscaping, the tree is lovely and needs to be limbed up. Really like the house, too.

I agree that the steps to the door need to be much wider. (And all the same width, too. Not graduated widths like they are now.) Plus, I would want the top one to be more of a landing-size, rather than a step-size. If someone comes to the door, where do they stand while waiting for you to answer? Down on the sidewalk? I don't think it looks like you could open the door with someone standing on the top step.

You could get brick facers to have mortared on top of the concrete. Facers are the same length and width as normal bricks, but they're only about half an inch or so thick.

Sorry, fat fingers copper metal not cooper.

Really nice home. Is the front stoop/step also crumbling or in need of work anyway?

If you move the Hosta (and a bit more), you'd have room for a front porch between the chimney and the left side of the house.

Your porch could have a shed roof except over the actual front door -- just extend the existing gable there.

I would add asymmetrical planting beds on either side of portions of the front walkway to breakup the straight shot look.

I noticed the brick sides and thought they would be great place for large containers. You could do annuals and seasonal decorations in them.

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The two best things you can do for this already-great house are to limb up the tree and widen the walk to the full width of the bottom step.

And the third best thing is to paint the downspouts the color of the brick so they disappear.

I wonder what a portico would like on your house. You could do one without pillars.

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Search on Pinterest for wrought iron railings. They have a great selection pictured there.