Did you have drawings to guide the construction of the makeover and obtain required permits before demolition started?

The drawings do not include the front facade.

What's going on at the left side of the facade?

If this battered element stays you need to balance it on the other side.

I think what you've done so far looks good. The porch supports need to be wrapped.

Does your roof need replacing in the near future?

Did you remove the slanted brick element from the far right side of the house? Then there should be some reference to it somewhere else.

I love your front covered porch area. I would put a “light” colored stone (or cultured stone) on all three of those columns. You would need to frame them bigger to attach stone. Then I would cover the porch floor with cultured paver stone, also staying in a light color that complements the pillars. You could even add lights to the stone pillars that would hang towards the ‘

. (Sorry I hit the post button) lol. Towards the inside. Then paint your house in some beautiful colors to coordinate with stone. Beautiful bench and planters and it would be a really inviting front entry. I’ll post pics of what I think.

Columns similar to these. Light on color. Clearly the size would need to be adjusted to your space

And maybe colors similar to this. Painting your ceiling inside porch covered area “light” color.
With light stone/paver colors and light ceiling, it would really brighten up entry.

Stay with just siding and stucco - no stone. Beef up the columns. Put your money into painting, landscaping and paving the driveway. I'd make all your decisions with a MCM style in mind, so everything is cohesive. I can see large square pavers for the walkway in front of the porch area.

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I would respectfully disagree with calidesign. I think stone (and landscaping) would add a rich and warm layer of texture and interest. Although it really is a “beauty in the eye of the beholder” when it comes to style and tastes. Just my own opinion.

Take the entire house into consideration when making design considerations and apply the design to make a unified whole. A conglomeration of details from different architectural style most likely will not work. It's true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but ugly pokes everyone in the eye.

I have zero design experience or software (this is from the iPhone), but had considered something like this. I don’t think a gable is in our budget, but I thought beefing up the right column to match, doing some nicer colors and adding some pretty lighting may be a start?

Mark is right; don't make such big changes to this facde without considering the whole house.

Do you need extra square footage in your home? If so, enclosing the porch to make a formal living room with foyer would make sense to me. As to painting your stucco I would be cautious there. Stucco is a breathable material and painting it can stop moisture from being released to the outside. Then you have moisture buildup which can cause structure to rot. If you do re-stucco your home I would have a whole house wrap to is compatible with stucco installed. Good luck!

I would also go with the whites and grays or blues. I think you should repaint and stucco and reside the house. I would definitely make those Collmns bigger. They look very small. Add some chairs to the porch and fresh green landscape and your pretty much all set