Are you adding to make a bigger garage or are doing it for more space for the home’s interior?..what have you decided to do with the roof line? That looks like the biggest challenge to me..

Add to what you now have to extend your current front porch with a flat roof so the front edge of it is beside the front edge of the right wing of the house. Create a sidewalk from the new front edge of the porch that goes straight until it is beyond the lamp post and then turn it toward the driveway. You've created a planting area around the lamp post.

Consider painting the bench a bright color to draw attention to the entry space.

Not sure that entry will work with a 25’ tunnel leading to the door...seems like a new entry needs to be created ...elsewhere...

We have rooms behind the garage so we can’t go behind the house. We are extending the garage for more space , but we will be taking one bay from the existing garage and blowing out the wall into the kitchen to make it bigger.

I only have one window for my kitchen which is the one above my porch bench.

I unfortunately can not change the location of my front door either. It’s a weird house plan and thought about moving but the best option is for us to stay.

I agree I don’t like a forward facing garage, but we are kind of stuck.

The proposed addition would make your house very similar to houses around me from the 70s. Some homeowners have brought the entrances forward, or embraced the tunnel and added a gate (or done nothing). If it were me, I would go for a courtyard or atrium where the tunnel to your door is and add a killer gate on the front of the house.

Some visualizations (I’m not saying these are necessarily good-looking homes, fyi).

I’ve had this photo forever and I love what they did with the cedar around the windows. I’d paint your house white with the windows on the right side of your house trimmed in cedar and other cedar accents.

I’d suggest getting an architect, but this is a great place to figure out what you like and what might be possible.

You could look for garage doors that echo the look of the framed sections of glass at the top of the front section...maybe framed squares of frosted look glass

Keep your front door ... just move it forward a dozen feet.

If you add a flat roof left of the garage but instead of just having it be an extension of your porch, enclose a significant part of it -- anywhere from half to two thirds of it -- for a new foyer with a forward facing door and leave the rest open for a new porch, you'd have a more visible front door.

What if you were to add a new garage onto the front face of your home, parallel with the driveway. Same roof line. It would be a side entrance garage, you'd need a wider driveway potentially to arc from. Then the existing garage can be converted into living space with windows added to the front. Of course you'd lose those big upper windows on the front of your home for interior light, but then you'd add a window onto the new side garage wall.

Sell your home and move to one that is more suited to your needs. JMO.

The saddest part about your proposal is that the only kitchen window you have will be at the end of the tunnel...soooo...i would try to widen that window in the process and create as many white surfaces in the tunnel as possible to reflect light into the kitchen..

Even if this requires removing some upper cabinets it will be worth it for the lift that natural light offers..