Rework it to be more porch-like. You have a deck on the side and the deck in front is detracting from your home's entry. Change it to porch railings and posts painted white like your trim and door. Work on the steps too and then landscape appropriately to cover the gap underneath. I like this style a lot. Make sure it doesn't look like just another deck.

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I see a porch on the front of your home and a deck on the side. A porch is a covered shelter in front of an entrance. A deck is an open wooden extension to a house. I was wondering if you wanted to add a deck to the front of your home, or redo the porch and railing.

The posts for your porch are load-bearing as far as I can see. They cannot be cut off and capped. But perhaps you want to extend your porch out from under the overhang, in which case that part would be a deck, and you could cap those posts.

Because decks are exposed to rain there is a gap left between deck boards so rain can drip through. Most means of hiding the area beneath a deck is therefore open to allow moisture to dissipate and prevent rots. The photo below shows an open horizontal board enclosure and also uses cable railing.

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You could, though, use the same rock as is on the front of your garage to close in the under deck area as long as sufficient venting is provided. I added this to your existing porch below. This would give visual continuity to the design as well.

I think your porch is crying out for a nice wide shrub border curving out and around to the right with a nice massive shrub at the right corner.

Haha, sorry about the cats. And the back deck was a mess after a big storm had gone through. I love not staining or painting anymore. No more rotting wood or splinters.

One more apology. We have something more like the Fusion line. Ours was installed many years ago and they’ve changed their line a bit.