It is always a challenge working with a house that has been subject to lots of renovations over the past, some of which may not have been given enough design consideration. At the moment you have a bit of a mish-mash of colours and materials that are working against each other.
Without knowing your budget I would consider two approaches to improve the look of your home cost-effectively:
1) Simplify the palette of materials and colours. At the moment it looks like you have face brickwork, render, weatherboard, fibro sheet with contrasting battens and a steel roof. By replacing the fibro sheet with a weatherboard to match the lower half, then painting all of the walls a consistant colour will make the house seem a bit more together, and less busy. With such a busy mix of materials you don't need any contrast or features standing out - so a monochomatic approach is best.
2) You have a huge amount of grey concrete which is great for cars, but isn't adding anything to the look of the house. Reduce the concrete area by at least 50%, especially if it is hard up against the house, and replace with mulched garden beds and planting that is appropriate for your location to soften the look.
Yes theres a lot going on with the house and landscape.
I would suggest similar to Dr.
Painting will go a long way to improving it.
I would also suggest engaging a local landscape designer to assist further. Removing the wall and hard space to the left of the carport and planting would reduce the heavy facade. Even removing the hard space only, keep the wall and planting in front of it would assist.
Paint and landscape (along with attending to any maintenance issues) are the best value for money improvements.
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