Honestly I don't really like it because it looks like 3 doors. It also dwarfs the transom window. Need to see the rest of the house, but if you panelize this part I think it should be larger panels.

Looking at it again, wouldn't you want a window close to the front door? How about doing 2 windows replacing the 2 white panels or at least 2 side lites? Hard to say without seeing more of the plan

Thanks for the responses. I'm posting a pano of the house from a distance and a front shot as well. There are still things to be done as noted below but these are the requested pics showing the entire house. I've had to minimize the file size for them to upload. Sorry for quality degradation. Thanks.

Since you said ripping the angles out is an option, start with that. It's odd looking.

From a distance the angled, 3 section entry looks reasonable if -- and this is a big if! -- the door is white and not black. Otherwise the actual door looks like a black hole. From close up, I think the side panels have too much detail. I'd minimise the raised panels and I'd probably add sidelights to increase the visual weight of the centre door section.

Get rid of the funk angles and lose the imitation doors as trim, neither do anything for the optics of your house. And if you were to paint the transom area of the current setup black it would not m,ake it appear larger but make it darker.

You have a really handsome home! The entry - not so much. The angles make it look as though somebody tried to cut corners - literally! - to finish in a hurry.

Well...what do your construction drawings show? Is the construction consistent with the drawings or not? That's step one.

If the construction is not consistent with the drawings, a meeting with your general contractor is in order, with the question of what the GC intends to do to make the work follow the construction documents, with the cost on him/her.

If the work matches the construction documents, you have the choice of a Change Order with the cost on you.

@Virgil: I didn't say it was not per the plan. I believe the plan is flawed in terms of I've never seen a door designed like this. I paid a builder and his staff for the plan and I could not think literally of everything on my own. I'm unhappy with how this has turned out. Yes, a change order....but to what? It's irrelevant to me that the plan had an angle. I'm focused on fixing it to something else to look normal. What would look better that would not be a massive overhaul? If you have ideas about that, I'd love to hear them. Thanks.

I know you did not ask, but to my eye, the porch needs to stand out a bit more.

Visually, the top part of the house seems heavy, and adding some structure to the porch might help balance it.

Here I've shown some additional columns, just as an idea.

Sorta looks like an entrance to a Halloween Haunted House or a Prison.

It would be helpful, to me, to see this section of the floor plan to determine how the angle affects the interior. I thought the idea upthread that showed the door recessed, but the panels squared off created a handsome entry.

Another thought I had was to get a wooden storm door with glass panels to use with your door. It would be painted black like your door. Most of the old colonials in our area have that set up...you can leave the main door open with just the storm door shut and have beautiful light during the day, and is gorgeous at night if you are entertaining. It has to be a high quality storm door for it to look right...not one of those with the fake leaded glass and such. I’ll try to find photos.

Here’s an example of the type of storm door

The porch with double columns is a stronger visual statement. Square columns will be visually stronger than round columns.

What did you think of the entry image posted by HU-756915? It's clearly an improvement over the diagonal walls.

Yes, a change order....but to what?

Bring that area forward so that it’s flush with the rest of the front. Since you have a porch roof over the entrance providing protection from the elements, there’s no need to recess the front door.

@ HU-321637246

What do you think?

Have you considered side lights?

Thanks for all the helpful responses.

I really liked the pic that was posted with the white paneled trim on the left and right of the door that someone posted. That idea may be easier to implement. We are already near the end of the project and I'm concerned about spending a lot of money as we are of course already over budget. I wish the door had not been set back at all. I've had some problems uploading on here but I see if I can post that part of the plan to show it on the plans.

There are going to be black rails on the front and side covered porches so that may add some appeal to the front. We were ok with the porch view overall versus say double columns. The sample pic with the double columns is definitely impressive. We sit on our porches a lot and we are concerned that double columns may block a rocking chair for our family of 5. Not sure if this matters, but this house sits in the middle of 150 acres and we plan to sit outside on the porches. The rails are required by code and we like the look of the rails.

Someone mentioned brining that area forward so it's flush with the rest of the front. With the house already framed/bricked up, I'm wondering how expensive/involved of a project that is.

I am running many of these ideas by the builder to kick it around some more. Thanks for the continued dialogue.

I'm trying to upload a shot of the plan for the porch that I think someone wanted to see. I'm not sure I have a ton of options in terms of moving and expanding the door. I'm fairly tech savvy and for the life of me I can' figure out why these pics won't upload on here. Thanks.

I always save a pic to my photo roll, then come back here, start a reply, then click the “photo” button on the left under the reply box. It takes me to my “photo library” which is the camera roll, and I just click on the pic. It pops it in the reply box. HTH!!

Quick fix- paint door white or paneling black

You have built a nice house, but it is not a Colonial. Perhaps it has some elements of colonial decoration, but it is not something you would see in colonial America.

So this is what we ended up going with. Appreciate most of the previous comments. Wanted to provide an update. As usual, looks like the photos aren’t uploading. I don’t Understand why. Only site with this problem that I visit.

Noted above. For the life of me I can’t figure out why pics don’t upload on this site. Trying again. I updated the previous post to note it. Sorry.

Ok. Think it worked. They have to re-stain new Boards up top.

Thanks for the update.

Much, much better!

Significant improvement--congratulations.

Sandra--Thanks for the response. I went with black only because the shutters and shutter dogs were all black and I thought it would match and look good. My wife would prefer another color but we couldn't agree on one. Do you see a color that would jump out to you? We had trouble blending it with the red brick, black shutters, etc.. Thanks!