Front of house is boring. I need some inspiration!

vor 4 Jahren

Hey Everyone!

I am looking for some inspiration. The front of our house is looking a little boring to me and I need help coming up with some ideas that would really freshen up the look. I was mostly thinking paint colors and landscape but would be open to design changes. I'm conflicted because I like the brick and don't really want to paint over it but I don't know what colors go well with it. Or maybe I need someone to tell me I do need to paint over the brick... I don't know! I'm not good at seeing things before they are actually there. Any thoughts/ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Patrick

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I trimmed your bushes. Some inspiration:

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Elaine Ricci
vor 4 Jahren
Celery or sage green? Slatey blue?
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Yardvaark
vor 4 Jahren
As brick goes, it is not the prettiest. But neither is it the homeliest. You could get more bang for your buck by spending your effort effort elsewhere.

There are potentially a couple of nice trees. But there is not a nice lawn, walk, or shrubbery. It seems like you need a landscape renovation. Because of the shade, grass doesn't seem to be in your future. This is primarily a groundcover yard.

You could get better advice with better pictures.

At a time when the lighting is good, stand with the camera at the beginning of the walk (where it meets the street) and take a series of slightly overlapping pictures that pan from far left to far right. Let us see surroundings, so beyond the ends of the house, all the way to the side lot line front corners. Don't change camera locations between pictures.
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Anna (6B/7A in MD)
vor 4 Jahren
"A shrubbery!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69iB-xy0u4A

My first thought was to lose the meatball shrubs. But you may also consider taking off the shutters and see if you like the look. Landscaping would be my first plan. But may removing the decorative, yet exclusionary, wrought iron screen for the front door? Unless you feel a need to have it, then by all means, keep it.

Maybe painting the front door a snazzy black.
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ShadyWillowFarm
vor 4 Jahren
Where is your front door? Do you have two entries? One has a sidewalk from the street, and one from the driveway? The landscape needs freshening, do you want to take a sidewalk across the front of the house to the other door (has packages in front)?
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apple_pie_order
vor 4 Jahren
The brick is fine. The shrubs need pruning - they look best when their tops are about a foot below the window sills. If you have big azaleas next to your front door, read up on how and when to prune them in your area. A new landscape plan as yardvark describes would have a great impact.

The shutters add character and can add a touch of color. Try a light denim blue for the shutters if you want to liven things up. Cut a foamcore board to the size of a shutter, paint the foamcore, then prop it up over a shutter. Lots easier to try different colors that way than on the shutters themselves.
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Patrick Remington
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vor 4 Jahren
@ShadyWillowFarm The Main entry at the front. The one on the side just goes into a sunroom/office but we never really use that door.
cat_ky
vor 4 Jahren
Your house looks nice. Its not boring at all. Nothing wrong with the colors either. Spend your dollars doing landscaping. Get a landscaper to draw out a plan that works for your shady yard. You dont have to do it all at once. As long as you have the plan, and name of plants, that will work, for your property, you can do things little by little.
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Patrick Remington
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vor 4 Jahren
@cat_ky Thank you for saying that. I appreciate your advice!
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vor 4 Jahren
For the house, I would leave the brick, consider changing the color of the house or maybe just the trim color. The front door needs a new color and the black metal thing should go. I highly recommend a one-hour consultation with an interior designer who can give you all of those answers.

The landscaping (my area of expertise). No more trees, your lawn is filled with moss indicating you have a lot of shade. Don't just trim the shrubs. That won't improve anything. You need to remove some of the shrubs. You can probably save some of the shrubs as well. My genius zone is creating from your heart and soul. Use this as a chance to express yourself. What do you want to say, what do you want it to feel like? Do you want a lush shade garden that is warm and welcoming? Do you want to celebrate a loved one or pet that has passed? Do you want the outside of your house to be a reflection of you the way the inside of your house is a reflection of you?

Once you find an idea or concept that makes your soul sing this will be a complete joy to create. If you want ideas on that let me know. Good luck. Show us after pictures.
harleysoftail06
vor 4 Jahren
Get rid of the shrubs by the house. put a pretty wood tone front door on and add wood tone shutters. I would start there.
ShadyWillowFarm
vor 4 Jahren
So when someone parks in your driveway, do they have to hike across the front yard to the front door, or do people park in the street? I feel you need to have a sidewalk from the front door to the driveway.
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vor 4 Jahren
Agree that the brick looks great, the house could be painted a luss dull color though, Perhaps a stately grey, or a colonial white? Maybe even a subtle neutral green. I think the door could be brightened up too, Perhaps paint it to match the shutters, or a bright red or yellow? Landscaping definitely needs improved though. Create some planting strips along the walkway, and either find some lively shade loving perennials or small shrubs. A groundcover of some sort around the trees could be a welcome sight, it looks like the roots may be hard to contend with for anything else.
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Creative Visual Concepts, Kevin Strader
vor 4 Jahren
Brick is fine. Don't paint it. You take a no maintenance product and turn it into a long term maintenance issue.

1) Paint the siding a darker tone found in the brick. That will reduce the contrast between the brick and siding.

2) Based on the siding color (if you decide to paint) then replace the shutters with ones wide enough to cover the windows if the shutters were closed. The color of the shutters would depend in part on the siding color.

3) Paint the front door a color that makes it more of a focal point for the facade.

4) Have the landscaping trimmed back or if the budget allows, totally redone. Most of it is too large and is hiding parts of the house.

You've got a good solid house that doesn't need a ton of work to make it look better. If you're interested in seeing some virtual makeovers check out my website, Creative Visual Concepts. I can show you how different changes could look on your home.
dory50ish
vor 4 Jahren
There are a lot of colors that do go with your brick. I had a house with the same brick and was doing country so did a soft creamy yellow. If you wanted to really make your house stand out you could do a German Schemer over it. Basically you are putting plaster over it then brushing off the plaster to let some of the brick color show through. You have a lot of brick and it would look cool as old world feel but could be costly and time consuming. Just a thought!

However, on a more realistic note I would do a light gray then you could do trim a grayish white...I use Frost from Behr, it's a white but with a gray tint...and then paint the shutters black. last but not last pick an accent color that you have in your home or just plain like and paint your front door and maybe the side door as well (mine in Teal). All that will go really well with the brick.

I'm not sure by the pictures what is at your front door entry. almost looks like rod iron of some sort. Personally I would remove that if possible then at maybe 4x6 posts on either side of the little porch area. I'd put a walkway from street up to the door as well as have the walkway come from driveway and connect to it at the front door. I usually when doing concrete I don't like squared off things as the house is usually squared off on corners so I do curves in my walkways and garden beds. It helps to soften and makes for a meandering walkway.

Hope this will help get you started or even add to some of the other ideas.
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Celery. Visualization, Rendering images
vor 4 Jahren
Tan/beige
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C R
vor 4 Jahren
I like what celerygirl has posted the white and grey both look nice!

@Celery. Visualization, Rendering images wow I love how you can create these beautiful suggestions. Can you tell me what software you are using? Thanks!
Missi (4b IA)
vor 4 Jahren
I'm anti-shrubbery. Except in the case of Monte Python then that's ok.

Hostas are my answer for shade. We have about a million and I'd just go around and throw hostas at all the shade if I could. We did start adding some heucheras, but hostas are our first love.

Probably I would want to paint the siding part and leave the brick alone. I like the ones celery posted, partial to the gray and the olive-y ones. I'd paint the door something eye catching.
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I use photo editor.
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
vor 4 Jahren
Being completely "anti-shrubbery" makes for a pretty boring (and empty) landscape for most of the US, where herbaceous perennials like hostas are invisible for a good 4-6 months of the year!! And a shrub-free landscape doesn't offer much dimension or structure/bones to the garden either.

btw, hostas are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to great plants for a shady location. Think biodiversity in place of monoculture :-)
molora
vor 4 Jahren
Your house is a beautiful 1940s traditional style. Unless you are up for a complete exterior renovation, I would opt to emphasize your house's original style. Leave the brick and the wrought iron. It looks high quality, just old fashioned. Maybe soften the paint with a light sage green and slightly darker shutters. Then re-landscape. Emphasize your front walk with hedges or bushes. Maybe miniature azaleas. Then add very nice large wooden or iron trellises (not the cheap ones) to the front between your windows and plant climbing roses, or, if you don't want the maintenance, another climber that will work in your climate. Surround your beautiful trees with some low plantings. Add a couple of traditional urns with substantial bushes or flowers to your front porch. And maybe find a place for a wrought iron bench. Again, find a really nice, substantial one, not the kind you get at the local hardware store.
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Missi (4b IA)
vor 4 Jahren
Shrubberies are over rated--for *me*. When it's 40 below with the windchill, I don't care what it looks like outside. Everything is covered by the snow anyway, nobody in the midwest has a yard/landscaping of interest in the winter-- and the variety and color I can get during the spring/summer/early part of the fall until we cut things down for the winter, wins for *me* every time. We have a gorgeous yard during those months, and we keep bees, so they're happy. We're no monoculture by any means, other than we quit planting annuals. Fortunately, there's plenty of different ideas for everyone, and everyone gets to decide what they like and what suits them. Shrubberies have their place, just as anything else does..that place just doesn't happen to be in my yard. Maybe it's in OP's yard, your yard, someone's yard, and that's fabulous. Our yard is also fabulous. Win win all around.
jimandanne_mi
vor 4 Jahren
I'm in the midwest, and I added lots of flowering shrubs, evergreen shrubs, and semi-evergreen plants so that my mostly partial-shady lot looks good when everything else is brown in the late fall, non-snow-covered days in winter, and early spring.

Unlike the previous two winters, this one has been light on snow. I love coming and going to the house from the mailbox by the street and seeing a variety of evergreen shrubs and trees of various types and sizes - yews (Capitata, emerald spreader, "traditional"), Canadian hemlocks, Siberian cypresses, azaleas & rhodies, and where I have more sun various lower mugo pines, spruces, arborvitaes and junipers.

Actually, right now, the (confined) periwinkle, low azaleas, and hellebore leaves going up my front walk look almost as fresh as in the spring. In the spring I love watching the flowering shrubs come out, and in the fall those with leaves that turn are gorgeous.

Once in a while we get deer here, so I do have roses, hostas and daylilies that sometimes get nibbled on in passing, but so far not destroyed. And interspersed among everything are peonies, coral bells, foamy bells, astilbes, wildflowers, dozens of clematis vines, and some other perennials.

But I would never be without the beautiful shrubs!

To choose the right plant for the right place, one year I did hourly sun charts once a month for lots of locations from spring to fall, so I'd know where to put what, and researched the plants I liked before buying any.

Anne
Missi (4b IA)
vor 4 Jahren
If we lived in the country, I'd probably have something like my parents have-3 acres of trees and shrubs and plants and flowers and everything imaginable..sadly, we live in town, so don't have as much space. The research of what works best where and what you like...so much fun. Dad used to have a valise where he kept all the nursery catalogs, and a couple yellow legal pads where he kept lists of what was planted where/when, and diagrams of all the beds, notes about changes he wanted to make, beds to add etc. Had I been thinking when we first started on our yard, I would've done the same thing-tho I didn't realize ours would be as extensive as what it is currently. I do have a binder where I started keeping track of some things a few years ago...it's fun to see what you can do outside. We've never seen goldfinches in town here, and last summer there was usually a group of seven in our front yard *all* the time.

I enjoy seeing the personalities that come thru in people's landscaping.

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