Do you need that front porch? It looks all wrong.

Do you have the budget to do a new porch? Raise the roof and entry level deck. Something like this:

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A portion could be screened in.

Yes I like that - One of the challenges is you enter from the side - the actual front is yard so there does have to be some type of porch still

How and where are you adding stone? Of on to the foundation on the front elevation, do not do it in my opinion. Do all 4-sides or not at all.

Yes On the front of the house there is this super cheap material - looks like the same material of a McDonald trash can 😂it has to go !

Since you're replacing the roof anyway, instead of a separate house roof and a shed roof for the porch, create one roof slope in the front over a porch that is 6'-8' deep -- you'll want room for chairs and still have plenty of room to walk across the porch in front of the chairs.

To the roof, you could add a couple of dormers centered over the windows on the main floor. That attic space by the dormers could give you upstairs space either as a sleeping loft or attic storage.

Cabins and porches go together. Consider creating the new porch floor that is the entire width of the house and is located just below front entry door height. Then face the vertical wall around the porch with stone or brick. You could then add stone or brick steps to the front porch, with or without a landing to curve the steps toward the driveway.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/362821313714535947/

The steps could be added to the front of the porch and yet aimed to the side of the house that is toward the driveway.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/362821313714535947/

Or the steps could literally be at the end of the porch closest to the driveway and, if you do that, consider beginning and ending the steps underneath the porch roof to protect them from ice.

https://www.houzz.com/photos/mazzeo-remodel-before-and-after-traditional-porch-boston-phvw-vp~6544545