Yes and have a landscaper fill it with colorful perennials and shrubs. Something you don't have to fuss with and replant every year. Also reduces your lawn so you use less water, weed killer and fertilizer.

HI -- I think you need a pedestrian sidewalk from the front porch down to the front . You also need to widen that step to the width of the porch . This arrangement will make a separate flower bed with the lamp post and plant that area with a mass planting of one kind of plant like maybe daylilies around and down the area between the new walkway and the driveway. Have the new sidewalk from the porch come ahead and curve a little to the left and back towards the driveway . A curved sidewalk will add some interest . On the left side maybe patio it out a bit with a curved 15 inch high (seating height) stone /brick /wood wall/bench . Then add some plantings in front of that and maybe add a tree or three such as birches -weeping or river . You can get landscaping help from your local garden center or a landscape designer .You can also plant Eco-grass (no-mow) grass.

Hostas and Daylilies everywhere as Beverly suggested! "Dwarf" shrubs are very nice and controllable when they are full grown. Nice home by the way!

You might also consider shutters on the lower window along with window boxes for flowers underneath.

I am a fan of different types of flowers (mostly perennials). Day Lilly's were a great suggestion. Lavender, Butterfly Weed, trailing soapwort (ground cover), ornamental grasses are a couple of my favorites. Hostas are pretty, but can become invasive and need to be divided. Most plants are sun lovers. Not sure how much sun the area gets. Coleus likes the shade. You do have a great blank canvas to work with.

we had our landscaping professionally designed 5 years ago to be more contemporary, elegant and current -and it is just now perfectly grown in and beautiful. we enjoy the updated plantings such as Chicago land boxwoods (extremely hardy), dogwoods that turn an amazing yellow in the winter months, seedums that are vibrant red in fall, dwarf lilac bushes are beautiful in the spring and just the right size to let their fragrance waft through the windows in the spring without blocking the natural light, also, each of the corners of the house have a small Princess Diana tree/shrub - and the crowning glory center front is a Tina Sargent Crab Apple (just has small red berries that the birds love-no mess) ornamental tree that is adorable and so much fun to decorate with Xmas lights and holiday sparkle. We have larger hydrangea bushes and peonies in the back - plant in groups of 3, 5 or 7 - water daily for 1st 1-3 months - leave nice spacing to start out - in a few years it will be filled in and look fabulous. Also - you have enough space to add a water feature (fountain) or sculpture/rock or other accessory if you have a taste for that. Have Fun!!

Everything looks very neat and well cared for! I agree that the larger bush near the lamppost should go. Also, put shutters on the " naked" window on the left. Add a pretty rug to the front porch, and get an updated lamppost.