No mulch? At least in a new garden, you will either be doing a large amount of weeding or herbicide or need mulch while the plants fill in. So consider an organic, brown mulch that will blend in such as compost, chopped leaves, or shredded bark until plants get large enough to no longer need it.

Pavers to edge garden beds works well for me, especially if used with a buried edging. Mower wheels can run along the pavers to save edging with a strimmer, and the buried edging helps keep out plants with creeping roots like many lawn grasses.

Do you use all the paving? Right now, half your yard is paved, and if you don’t use all of it for parking on a regular basis, I would convert some of it to grass or other plants. Particularly with this arrangement, not even a remote suggestion of symmetry is possible. If pavement removal isn’t in the cards, consider adding the largest planter you can fit in front of the porch.

Because of the low window placement, I would not do a foundation planting of anything other than a flowering groundcover with perhaps some spring flowering bulbs. Add an evergreen shrub off the left corner of the house to hide the utilities on the side, making sure that is is chosen for ultimate size to not exceed the space.

Remove the stump and accompanying daylilies, stockpiling the daylilies for later reuse if they are attractive. Plan a bed that will stretch across the front of the property to include the magnolia currently there. Make it at least 5’ deep so you have room for plants to provide a long season of interest.

Most full sun perennials require considerably more work than low shrubs to stay looking good. Do you like working in the garden, deadheading, dividing, etc.? If not plan to use low shrubs such as small panicled hydrangeas like Bobo, small Hydrangea serrata such as Tuff Stuff, one of the many low spireas, small cultivars of red twigged dogwood like Kelseyii, etc. with just a few low maintenance perennials.

Evergreen plants are really useful in bumping up a home’s appeal during the 5 months of gray and white weather, whether groundcovers such as Veronica Georgia Blue or shrubs such as false cypress or birds nest spruce. Without them, the yard will look quite stark from November to at least March. Consider placing at least some where you can appreciate looking at them from inside the house and enjoy the snow on them.

Since you like birds, consider adding a heated bird bath to attract them in winter and some small trees or large shrubs limbed up to tree form to give them perching and nest sites. If they have berries, all the better. A small crab apple might work well. This chart has several that stay within your desired 3 meters and have good to excellent disease resistance.

https://www.jfschmidt.com/pdfs/JFS_CRAB_CHART.pdf

Use either hulled seed or place your feeders where they won’t be dropping onto gardens or lawn. Sunflower seed hulls have an allopathic chemical that keeps other plants from growing, and often seeds will sprout in garden beds, adding to weeding.

Fountains require both power and a water source, so consider whether that will be practical.

I like celerygirl's first mockup.

You've got to do something with that expanse of lackluster lawn between the front walk and the house.

And it's hard to accomplish that without using some shrubs like celerygirl shows. Looks like some varieties of horizontal junipers of the slower growing blue and gold types ... and some boxwoods.

Alternatives would be Japanese spirea ... and/or dwarf variegated red-twigged dogwoods. Or ... you could fill the spaces between the walkways ... with your choice of perennials.

Oh ... and get rid of the stump ...

Blue Star Juniper

Saybrook Gold Horizontal Juniper

Green Velvet Boxwood

Japanese Spirea

Ivory Halo Dwarf Red-Twigged Dogwood

Hi guys,

I liked everything you suggested. All of you. You are
amazing and I thank you so much.

Your comments were very helpful. It made me understand few
things.

I realized we have to go modern, large scale, simple and
bold. Up until now I was stuck in making traditional, detailed designs full of
colours and shapes.

Bushes is the way to go. They will create foundation and perennials
will blend them in.

Unfortunately, large driveway have to stay but large planter
in front of porch is definitely going to happen. Up until I posted those
pictures here, I did not realize how much contrast there is between large
driveway and large lawn. My plan was to soften up the contrast by planting
linear flower edge between them but that would just highlight the contrast. Design
from celerygirl
where part of lawn is paved in half circle shape is making transition from
asphalt to lawn so gradual and natural. It is very modern design and I cannot
find many of that on internet as inspiration. Most of landscape ideas are
traditional. They are very nice but modern is my favourit style.

My plan was to keep stomp and transform it to fairy house. Plant
some whimsical bushes and plants around it like Rose of Sharon, white feather hostas,
red dogwood but that would not go well with modern bold design I have in my head
now. Maybe I can move it to backyard.

Reason I do not like mulch is because it have very unnatural
feel but organic mulch that will blend in as compost is good idea. I did not
know it existed. All I saw so far was that fake coloured mulch.

Edge made of two rows of pavers, One berried and one making
border is genius idea. It is practical and decorative and makes landscape design
look instantly neat and upscale.

Your species recommendation aegis1000 was right on spot. I think yellow and blue
hues will compliment yellow colour of house. What species should I chose for evergreen shrub off the left corner of
the house to hide utilities? My neighbour has those two triangular evergreens
framing house on each side. Can you tell me what are they?

Thank you again
everyone for ideas and recommendations. It was great help.

Wow, beautiful! Thank you so much. It makes such a
difference when driveway is pushed back to the side of house. This design frames
the house beautifully and makes it look complete.

That is how it was originally done. Previous owner widened driveway
up and unfortunately we need space for 3 cars so converting it back is not an option.
My plan down the road is to remove asphalt and do pavers everywhere. Now you
inspired me to consider two different styles of pavers. Those on right will
look like driveway. Those on left will be incorporated into landscape.

Even blue door that was not my best choice looks good in
this design. I love it.

Are those plants real? Are there blue bushes that look like
giant grass real? If yes, what are they? And what about blue flowers around
fountain?

Those pinkish round shrubs looks like Golden Spirea. I have
two of them and love it.

Is there a website I could do this landscape design added to
my photo?

The grass is little bluestem. The blue flowers are Million Dollar Blue delphinium. The other blue flowers are Blue Fortune agastache.

Very nice and simple switch to 3 car driveway, thank you.

I love ornamental
grasses. They have such a light feel but strong impression. I googled Little
bluestem. It is great and will definitely try it.

I tried blue
festuca in backyard but it looked nice only one year. Looks like grasses need
work. Not only plant it and forget it.

It seems to be your "requirements" are not based on needs or logic, but on preconceived, unrelated ideas.

@Yardvaark, what's wrong with knowing what you like?

Nothing's wrong with knowing what you like. But something is wrong with liking what doesn't really help you.