You're a long way from being "that house." Once you get the lawn greened up I think you will feel a lot better about your front yardscape. Right now you've got a bunch of overgrown shrubs under your windows that are too big for your limited space and really aren't needed to cover up anything. That's a small space, as Emmarene has noted, so you'll probably want to either put nothing there, or something smaller. Almost too small for even dwarf shrubs, but if you want, a fine space for some easy care perennials or a groundcover. Same with the shrub against the chimney, it is going to be a pain to maintain, and why do you need to cover your chimney with foliage? It's too big for that space, but could maybe work away from the house, viewed from an inside window. Your front landscape suffers from the classic mistake of thinking that everything has to be shoved up against the house. In my humble opinion, a front yard landscape should be designed to look nice from the road to folks driving by, from the driveway as you come home, and from INSIDE the house as you look out. That usually involves plantings well away from the house, judiciously placed so as not to obscure some area of the house where a burglar might be trying to enter. "Foundation plantings" are ok since that is an area to grow things if you like, but if there is nothing ugly around your foundation to hide, not necessary unless that really rings your bell. If you do want them, then think of them like jewelry and other accessories that you would "wear" to highlight your outfit. In the same sense, foundation plantings balance and soften the features of your house, highlighting what you like and downplaying the negatives. Depending on your light orientation, foundation plantings can also provide shade to cool your house or a windblock. But when planted too close, they just end up holding debris and moisture against the house and roof which can lead to moss, mold, rot, insects, etc. The area to the right of the front door as I'm looking at it, is kind of a long boring expanse of grey, so that would be where you could have some kind of plantings to spruce it up. Then in the front by the road, where it looks like something has died and been cut down, is where you could plant what is known as a "specimen tree" which is a tree that is spectacular in some way and gives pleasure when viewed from within the house or from the road. Common examples are white birches or river birches for their form and bark, a crimson maple or some other shrub or tree with bright red leaves in the fall, a crabapple or flowering cherry or dogwood, etc, some kind of flowering tree, or some cool evergreen or an island with a series of maybe three flowering shrubs or shrubs with cool foliage. You could relocate the large shrubs by your house to that spot, if they survive the move. I wouldn't recommend the classic blue spruce for your small yard, but there are some other beautiful options out there. But that's my taste, you have to figure out what is yours. You already have a magnolia specimen tree so purely up to you if you want another to contrast with it, or just let that area return to grass.

These were old pic taken from when I first moved in around 2 years ago. I will post new pics with the work I have completed and unhappy with.

We have a winner. I suspect it's not fully back yet. The dormancy mechanism of KBG is excellent, but expensive in terms of resources and the grass won't reverse it until it's sure it won't be needed again. It won't resprout at the first rainfall, it tends to wait until the ground has been moist for some time and temperatures have fallen. Letting your KBG go dormant is just fine. I do it with mine--I have A Thing about tossing drinking water at a lawn. Gardens, sure. Lawns, no. They're on their own, sink or swim. But it'll come back in its own sweet time. So personally, feed it in September, water if you want in September or, if rainfall is normal, let nature take its course, and let it come back in October. It would do so in nature just fine. It'll do it in your lawn just fine. Just control the weeds while you're waiting--with something other than Weed n Feed, as David noted. They're awful. Plus don't bother with synthetic feeding on dormant lawns. Dormant lawns can't absorb synthetic feed with any efficiency (near zero, in fact, unless they're very close to waking up and the roots are active). Use an organic when dormancy is about to break, which should be now-ish if rainfall has resumed or you're watering.

It looks to me like you could stand to have the driveway widened a little, creating better access to the front entrance and getting rid of the patio pavers in gravel. Whether it's a simple widening or a drive re-do, it your choice. The former would work as an interim solution. It would be good to reconfigure the walk to the stoop to make it more useful and attractive. It could be standalone or part of a drive widening project. The logical place to create seating for impromptu gatherings is under the overhang at the right of the stoop. Because of the overhang, it's not a good area for growing foundation plants. If you park or drive at left of driveway, it looks like you may need to extend the driveway with a permanent driveway material. That would solve the packed mud problem. In general, you need a landscape plan for the front yard that includes both hardscape and planting. The speed with which you implement it, and whether it was in pieces or in total, would be up to you. As far as giving you specific solutions, the pictures are too small, fuzzy, dark & partial.