Front of house opinions please - phot attached

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is this nice or awful? Too much going on? Slate roof, cream wall, green door and solid oak porch. And what to do?

It will look lovely when it has aged. The oak is still new. Do you like climbing plants - it would look gorgeous with some climbers, over the porch or maybe even the house. Wisteria? Or clematis? Or a lovely scented climbing rose?

It looks like my local parole hostel. Sorry! But it could be beautiful.

Get rid of the porch. It's not welcoming and looks like a bit added on.

The whole front needs to be a uniform colour.

The door needs to be in the centre. In its current state it's like lots of different bits stuck together and nothing really goes.

I realise that all adds up to a hefty bill, but it would transform an old grey "functional" building to a beautiful home.

Yes it’s 1930’s

As @TeeBee says, the oak with go more silver as it ages and will look great with the roof. As long as you don't keep staining it brown....

Is it ex RAF or similar? It looks like it has a history before it was a home.

I think the problem is that its a bit too cottage garden for the house.
It would have suited a more box type porch.
I don’t think rendering would solve the issue as the windows don’t match the porch.

You could spend a fortune attempting to get the house to match the porch. Might be easier to remove it.. sorry.

Personally I would repaint the render to complement the Windows LANdscape and get some climbers on it. See if you can grow to like it.

Usually a porch matches the house to an extent. Roof colour, proportions etc but the porch is quite out of sync with house colour and door size. It’s not bad looking though.

If money is a problem, then I would suggest you need to soften the lines between the cream part and brick sections..I would have tress in pots (bay trees maybe) either side of your porch. You need to make the porch the main feature. You need to draw the eye to the porch, not the actual house (short term)..

and then have climbing plants up the cream section and brick work (like clematis) even though this grows very fast, it will still take a long time before it covers the right sections.

I hope that makes sense!!

The porch hasn’t been tagged on

That's not original, surely?

The rest of the house is fine. Porch just needs to be a small, lower canopy.

You have a long wait but the oak will colour nicely in time.

Sorry, I’m confused, people are saying the oak looks new but you say house is 1930s and it hasn’t been tagged on, so it would already have aged if it was going to, right? I know you say you are reluctant to paint but if you feel the colour clashes it’s just going to keep annoying you and changing it would be a simple option. Could you use software to photoshop it and see how it looks? Some paint companies have apps that let you try out colours.

Planters to hide the brick supports might help.

iris1654 and others who think the porch should be replaced with a better ‘inkeeping’ design - what exactly please?

Can't quite find what I mean but something like this would be better. I'd paint the wood though (so not use oak). And proportionate to the size of the house.

Do you think we should sand back the oak, stain it a silvery Grey if there is such a stain? Then paint middle section white to match window frames? Then the door a light grey colour?

I think the problem is, the rendering of the middle section of the house makes it look like it's a row of three terraces, which makes the porch look way too big for it. Also it's the wrong style for 30s build, and doesn't go with the window frames. Not sure what to suggest really - render the reat of the house (which I think you said is too expensive), paint the porch (which is a terrible waste of the beautiful oak), or replace the windows with matching oak coloured frames to make it look a bit more cohesive. Or just take it down. 🤷‍♀️

I think shmith has it
The porch looks like it just belongs to the middle bit, which makes it look too big

Ignore above, I don’t think that’d work either. I’m loathed to totally remove the porch as it’d make a right old mess.
Rendering and painting whole house would be v expensive as there’s another section to the right you can’t see.
I’m keen to try to make the porch work somehow given that’s what seems to be the issue rather than the sandy colour.

I'd take a look at 1930s houses on Rightmove to find any originals to see what the look like.

The apex is too high so it looks overbearing. Lower that and change it same angle as roof, paint it white (and maybe with some black?) and it will look better. And de-chunk the base of the pillars.

I meant ignore above as in what I had said not your fab opinions and ideas!!!

Is there any way you could change the pitch of the roof of the porch to look more like the pitch above the windows? Or flat even? This is my friend's house - it's also 30s, and the porch roof is flat.

It does look very odd. The middle bit being painted makes it look like it's a seperate house, and because of that, then the porch looks far too big for it, and out of style of the house. Because your eye only looks at rhe cream,

I think I would paint the house white or ivory and it may be better, but the rendering makes the middle bit look like those old council houses you get. When I looked at it I thought it was a seperate house too.

So I strongly suspect unless the whole thing is done, either made all brick or all render, and it a better colour, I don't think it's fixable. I'm sorry,

Another bit to the right? Wow, how large is your family?

I’m still keen to know if the porch dates to the 1930s and, if so, why the oak hasn’t silvered?

If the oak has been there a long time and is that colour, it has probably been treated with a finish that stains it. I would try sanding and weathering it.

It honestly looks like a new porch someone has added, and just bought thr wrong style.

Yes it’s been stained