Agree with Oneplan about the glazed porch so you don't lose light, think you should let her draw up elevation plan for builders. Agree with people telling you to play up the asymmetry. Also think you should have a tame( not rampant) flowering climber up the posts around the porch. Something that tolerates shade. If has thorns may discourage kids climbing up on porch roof.

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Uniformity kills todays architecture, I recommend you to use dark colour shutters: Night Blue. This will crash and tear down the uniformity. Change the Entrance door and all the white structure surrounding it with hardwood, showing the wood, the brown colour of it, with veneer showing up, or paint it black. Brown is a magic colour, so wood is a magic element, which is in harmony with all other colour. Brown Wood will be in perfect harmony with night blue. Change the raınspout with dark coloured rainspout. Also Replace the roof tiles with zinc. It will cost you a hell amount of money, but at the end you will have a luxury lookalike house. You can then sell it to way much more than you have bought it.