we have a 1950's ranch that started with three rooms and a corner front door. In the 70's an addition was put in with two more rooms and a bathroom... but then the front door was left alone. It created a confusing front entry. It is perpendicular to one of the bedrooms' windows. Hence when anyone shows up at the front door they see inside that room (it is our study/library room). The front entry is in fact a bit hidden and far from the driveway. To get to the driveway, it is necessary to walk down to front deck. The deck starts at the bedroom window, passes the front door, has two steps down, passes the garden window (which is in the kitchen... no clue why someone would put a garden window under a sofit... but now we are stuck with it), passes another window (1/2 bathroom. We are closing this window), and the garage. It is a long front deck. To make things a bit more confusing the sofit on top of the front door is wide to cover the front door but doesn't lead to anywhere, and the sofit on the other side is shorter. We live high on a hill, so you can't see the house from the road. When you get to the house, the front door is hard to find.

I honestly have no idea how to define the front door better. I am open to ideas.

We could leave it as it is and add a set of windows to your right like this...

Or we could move it a bit by putting the door in between the two windows. Keep in mind the different sofit depths. Also the two windows are smaller than the two windows on the bedroom/study. We have to keep the windows size smaller to be able to reconfigure the kitchen. That will be a future post.

Here is a picture of the full front of the house. Since we love natural light and the view of the woods, we are enlarging all the house windows to look the same in style and height as the ones in the study. They will be in different lengths to fit the rooms. Note: we are not enlarging the garage ones, and are closing the 1/2 bathroom one. By the way, those are wooden benches under the garage windows.

The windows will be here in mid December. My dilemma is about where to put the windows next to the front door. Hence, so far we have those two options above.

In the spring, we hope to figure out the front deck, and change the landscaping.