It's a large property and you're throwing unrelated things from different areas at the forum all at once. It leads to confusion as the conversation can be about anything anywhere so always must be clarified. It would be easier if you started a separate thread for each problem/area that you wish to deal with. And in each one tell us what is where. Here, I'm not sure what your neighbor's house, or "the hill" behind your garage is. Also, not sure what door guests are supposed to use. You told us which one you use. Are guests supposed to use the same? Where they park?

Thank you for your response - I am sorry it was so confusing - I was trying to be simple and take overlapping photos standing in the same spot! ;-) The first photos are our house and the overlapping view to the right. The neighbors house is on the far right to the right of the barn in those first 4 photos.

We have always assumed guests will use the door we use/close to where they park. We get mail packages at both doors. Once in a while, someone goes to the far right door.

Well, gee! It is confusing! Your house absolutely looks like a duplex, with the one on the right built about 30 years after the first.

As Yard said - which door do you WANT visitors to use? Let's get that established first, then work forward. You'll need that information to decide how to arrange parking, sidewalks, and landscaping to point visitors the right direction. Then you can DEmote the importance of the doors you DON'T want them to use.

The view of your neighbor's house is an entirely different issue and could use a thread of its own.

The barn is also an unrelated issue. You don't use it to park, you said. OK then. I don't see that as a problem.

Thank you for your response. We use the left door because it is closer to our kitchen and bedrooms; but if the overall look of the house would be better using the right door (for guests or even us), that could work also.

Personally, I'd want the cars in the garage.

Thank you - so you would create a driveway across the front yard? There is no other entry to the garage other than driving across the front down the length of the house.

put a gate on the arbor shown:

We really don't understand yet how the property fits together to understand potential circulation patterns. I'm just surprised because this isn't a part of the world where garages are full of junk and the cars sit out. If you can get a car under cover, you do it because otherwise it can seem like you spend half your life clearing out the car.

How long have you lived in this house?

5 years. It was a vacant foreclosure. We have been working through a long list of repairs but we need a plan for the front! I will separate the post as Yardvaark suggested. Thanks

It might be helpful for you to provide us with an overhead sketch. Show us the street/road and how your driveway comes off it and approaches the house. Include placements of sidewalks, the house, and the barn.

Maybe it could be as simple as changing/turning/looping the driveway in a different way to make it more obvious that “this is where you go.”

Thank you - I am working on an overhead sketch.

I am also posting a new question with just the with photos square on to the the left side as per Yardvaark's suggestion.