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?

Have a look at the Guild Hall Lavenham, it is periodically limewashed and will give you an idea. It is a tad older than your house though!

I would brick up the sides (with added windows for light) and put a big door on the front with narrow floor to ceiling windows each side

iris1654 a cream wall? Where?
Dyou mean this glass porch numbered 78? I’m not sure about that either.

I think I'd put some planters in front of the porch 'legs' - maybe topiary cones - and pots of different sizes with other greenery in them before picking up a paint brush.

Something like this

Thanks schloss I will!!

Yes knittedfairies it needs lots & lots of greenery!!

Yes, the house has strong lines, so I follow that.
You can also put the door central and hide the lack of symmetry.

The porch is 20 years old at the most. It's far too big. The brick pile supports for the posts are particularly out of keeping. It's all too square. Squares are very typical of 21st century architecture and taste.

I'm afraid that the tall windows either side of the front door limit your options rather. Obviously they need to be either inside or outside of the porch area. I think that I would bite the bullet and replace the porch with a small canopy over the front door.

I personally think there are just too many colours and textures mixed together so it looks a little overwhelming to the eye when separately the elements are actually lovely!

I think the colour of the outside of your house is the main issue making it hard to get a cohesive feel - it's kind of neither one nor t'other.

I love the attached front porch which I think would work for the style and size of your home if the outside of your house was painted white and oak painted a grey / duck egg blue or similar. Accompanying plant pots to reinforce would be lovely like in the pic attached. Are you 100% on not painting the oak?

I don't think the colour of the oak goes with anything else cohesively at the moment and that's the issue.

It could be so be so beautiful though!

I think the drive is too much..you need some greenery there. Get rid of some of it and turf it and plant a big cherry blossom..need to take the eye away from the bricked sections

I would change your front door to match the oak and get some plants either side. Simple!

I would 'fill in' the sides of the canopy to make it a porch. Looks odd like that.

Yes, those sides to the porch are more what I was thinking ThatCurlyGirl. If it was narrower, the apex wouldn't need to be so high. But I still think the pitch would look better following the roof or the bay.

Without spending too much money I would paint the render an off white, paint the door black and put black trellis with plants between the door and the side windows (either side of the door)
The door is too small for the porch and so it makes the porch look odd and out of proportion. So you either need a wider door (double door ) or to make the door look wider - black trellis or panels.
You also need to simplify the colour palette
A more neutral colour for the render and matching the door to the fascia / soffit colour would help. The oak will fade if left naturally and soften nicely but if it's varnished I would sand it back. I would then concentrate on softening the front with planting and pots to tie the whole thing together.

I'm not a fan of your windows but that's mega money to replace and probably won't bother everybody I just especially hate the thickness of UPVC in this design and I'm not a massive upvc fan to start off with although I understand why people go with it.

I think if you can sort the pitch out of the room so it matches the bay window and the house roof it would look more sumetirical, maybe consider the far left window to be a bay window with a pitch also? I'd be tempted to grow a climber up the porch, that would soften the overall affect and hide the bricks at the bottom.
Again if you could get climbers up the brick part of the house it would soften and hopefully match the rendered middle more. We have a hydrangea up our bungalow which I'm convinced was planted when the house built, personally I love it, it does soften our very rectangular home

Having a second look if climbers aren't your thing I think a huge pot with a tree in between the porch and the right bay window could look good - also driveway to me could do with a pressure wash so it looks as fresh and new as the front rendered house and porch

I ageee with summer sunshine 2.

You can have a door painted ‘oak effect’ by a decorator, and then a rambling rose or other plants to soften and blend the 2 elements. If you can have plants joining the brick/ render together this will make the thing look more cohesive.

I think the porch on the original brick might have looked slightly off. And the part render without an odd porch would look a bit off, but both together looks very off. I definitely think you could do a lot with plants, and the brick stumps are vile... hide them or even paint them same colour as render.

I think it would be a shame to rip down what is already there though... a waste of resources and materials given its a solid and useful looking porch.

I haven't read all the replies but I would:

Paint the oak porch frame white.
Lighten the front door (as it's in the shade - needs a lighter/brighter colour paint)
Plant a lovely climber like roses/wisteria to cover the front of the house.
Additional planting along the front of the house.

All pretty cheap and easy

Yes to a larger front door / sidelight window strips (I'm sure that's not what they are called ) either side of the door.

I have a house which is similar to this in the issues it faced. mine is yours in reverse (middle section set back with two gables). The centre section is asymmetrical and the porch too small.

We've painted the whole thing a very pale grey and are about to put on an American style front porch across the front section (all painted white) and move the front door slightly. We will also replace the windows eventually. We have then taken out loads of driveway to put in planting, particularly up against the house to soften the look.

I think the porch will be fine but you need to paint the whole house ivory. You don't need to render the side sections yet, just paint the brickwork as a temporary measure.

You also need bigger wall lanterns

I think that's it. A pp has got it. Why it looks weird. The door is too small for the size of porch. Or the porch is too big, for that size of door. With that door,it should be the size of the one that Curley girl posted in the thr grey.

And I'm not even sure that porch is as much as twenty years old. You can buy them on line now.

wonkylegs the windows are wooden not awful upvc!

I agree with pps that the porch proportions are wrong for the house and that is accentuated by the rendering to that part of the frontage. The photo you posted at 12.59 OP would be perfect for the house.