Your home has no particular style, it's a melange of disparate pieces. Where the downspout crosses the brick paint it to match the brick, where it runs over the stone select a blue shade. If you like the shutters please replace with ones properly sized, each shutter should be half the width of the window. You have extensive hardscape and your existing landscape looks sufficient, although I would remove the two small "christmas tree" evergreens as they will grow too large for their current spot. Large planters flanking the door with annuals for seasonal color Spring through Fall.

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I would say the style is traditional.

The photos are inadequate for making useful landscaping suggestions. For instance, what is between your garage and the public street? Is there 1’ or 10’ or 30’ that is yours to the left of the house? We need to see the entire width of the front part of the property. To do that, stand by the street opposite the front door, and from that one spot take a series of photos that span the entire width of the property including the edges of the neighboring properties since anything they have planted or built near the property line may effect your plantings. Close ups of any current planting spaces will be useful as well.

Chiflipper’s suggestions to match the downspot to the siding behind it and plan to add large planters is spot on, and you can also use them in winter with greenery. Check out Deborah Silver’s blog Dirt Simple and search her container ideas. You will want large containers in order to not have them dwarfed by their surroundings.

http://deborahsilver.com/blog/

With all the paving, since you obviously live in an area with snow, where does the snow get moved to? Here that design would be impossible since by late February the snow would pretty much fill a large portion of the area in your photo.

Remove the shutters for sure and the soding painted a color that works better with thebrick and remove or cover up that stone it does nothing for the house

Babs, thank you for sharing the Deborah silver blog, it’s brightening my Thanksgiving morning! What amazing stuff she has, think my home would qualify as a shed on one of the properties she works on, LOL. And awesome container ideas, would be a lovely statement for this poster’s house.

That is a very pretty house and I would think also it's a Traditional style. I like the shutters :) I didn't notice the stone until I read Patricia's comment. That would probably be my least favorite part but not sure it's worth changing. If you have space there, I think you could put some type of ivy to run up the stone to soften it a bit. I'd add some of the creeping juniper in that area of the bay window if there is some earth available to fill (hard to see in photo whether hardscape comes all the way to edge of house.

Around the doorway I'd add some container plants with evergreens and other annual arrangements in spring.

I think your home looks lovely in this photo, even in winter!!.

Traditional is not a style. A style is Colonial, Ranch, Craftsman, Victorian, Cape Cod, Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle, etc. Your home is usually referred to as a Post Modern, with the varying gables and roof lines, and round top windows, most of them built in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

Hi Diana, I appreciate your comment as I like to learn new things every day. I think that "Traditional" is used as a somewhat "catchall" category for homes that have characteristics of "one or more historical architectural styles, without being easily classified as any particular style," i.e. this is clearly not a Victorian, Greek Revival, Queen Anne Revival, etc. I believe "Post Modern" emerged in the 1960's as a reaction to the lack of variation in architecture seen at that point. But my books could be out of date with the most modern vernacular, and I'm not an expert in house identification!