The entryway should introduce you, your style and hint at what to expect in the adjoining rooms, so don't start here. Start with the other rooms and let this space echo what's going on there.

Congratulations on your beautiful new home. You must be plenty busy (and excited) planning your move. I don't know if I'd beef up the posts or paint them a different color. I kinda like Pal's suggestion of painting them the same color as the fascia. In any event, painting them would be minimal cost and effort. A little landscaping can help a lot. The existing bed along the garage wall is very pretty. Yes, sometimes plants outgrow their space...ask me how I know. Something similar under the window on the left would soften your facade and add color. Where I live, most newer houses have the same walkway as yours, leading from the driveway, making a right turn, and going to the front door. I had mine changed, both in materials and shape, when I had a major landscaping redo in my front yard 12 years ago. It was the most expensive part of the landscaping. I would do it again, but you can certainly put it on a would-be-nice-someday list. I also come from the land of prominent, forward thrusting garages. It can't be disguised, so I treat mine as kindly as possible. I eventually added a garage door with lights (windows) and new lamps and number. I don't think dark dark doors will make it recede. It only makes the doors into black holes that suck everything into them. If you don't have wiring near your front door for a light, is it impossible with brick siding to add later? A pretty porch lamp would look nice. Have a happy move and many happy days in your new house!

This entryway is absolute perfection. It is rare that the proportions of anything I see on Houzz make me want to weep with joy, but this is the winning ticket. Whatever architect built this house knew what they were doing: The curve of the stairs and reverse curve of the ceiling line, the swoop of the banister and the arch of the wall cut out. Find the perfect carpeting for the stairs. Find one great thing for the niche and then stop. Anything else you will do won't make the space look as nice as it does now. Let the perfection of this balance and proportion be the decoration. Nice clock. Find another place for it in your home.

Don't know what a show cabinet is but don't think you can fit any kind of cabinet there. Do you need a tiny floating shelf to put keys or anything else? Is this where you usually enter? Where do you put coats and belongings?