You have a nice wide path to the door. My first reaction was to think of what not to do. I have often seen in gardens like this a barricade of plants hiding access to the stairs. Like below. I have a personal dislike for this type of landscaping. Do you like gardening and how much time do you want to spend maintaining it? I see shade from what I presume is a tree. Could you post a photo that shows the tree? What is the tree off the left corner? As to the house, it is very nice and does not need to change. If you want to try something different you could paint the door a color and paint the garage doors a khaki or beige to make them less prominent.

We are painting the house this summer. Looking for color recommendations. Also throw out ideas for front yard landscaping if you have any :-)

Those circles are not "planters". They are probably full of roots. I'd recommend he put in some annuals this year and see what the soil is like. He might put in some very small coneflowers, veronicastrum, babtisia, etc, for them to grow, but that's starting with plugs, as I suspect a quart ot 2 quart pot will be imposdible to dig.

This one is a challenge (maybe why no other responses?): to minimize the imbalance of door/windows, settle the high-set house into its site, and cover the bare legs of the rhododendrons(?). I played with a number of options, but this is the one I liked best. It removes the shutters and prunes the rhododendrons below the windows. (I read that late winter is the best time to do that; even though some blooms will be sacrificed, regrowth will have a better shape than if you wait until after they bloom.) I painted the door navy, as you suggested, substituted a larger light fixture, added house numbers, and removed what looks like stone veneer on the stair risers. Plants are: one Purple Pillar rose of sharon (the tall shrub rising into the empty space), four New Jersey tea (native) flanking the stairs; two white evergreen azaleas and two Elegantissima red-twig dogwoods at the corners; and Chocolate Chip ajuga in the strip between sidewalk and street. Spring bloom will be the ajuga (blue), azaleas (white), and rhododendrons (color?). Summer bloom will be the rose of sharon (light red-violet with a deeper center) and the New Jersey tea (creamy white). There won't be much fall color--but New England's sugar maples provide plenty! (You could substitute Little Henry Virginia sweetspire for two or all four of the New Jersey tea. That would give you earlier summer flowers and red/orange/gold fall color.) In winter, the rhododendrons and azaleas will be evergreen, and the dogwood's red twigs will show. Spring: Summer: