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Ok, I love the posting community here. You guys are awesome, thoughtful, creative, encouraging. Photoshop pictures, actual paint chip colors...so cool. Thank you.
I would put plantings along the front walk that give you the sense of being in a garden. Depending on the length of the wall and distance from that tree coming across the front, you could plant 2 small shaped topiary size trees on either side of the walk. Then fill in along the walk with looser plantings like grasses, sedum or other zone appropriate plants. The spiky foundation plants in the photos aren't what I would like. Ligularia desdemona (bigleaf goldenray, big dark green purple leaves provide excellent folliage and it has golden yellow flowers) or baptisia (false indigo; airy shrub with pretty blue flowers in early summer that develop into purplely seed pods that look nice in the winter) are two of my favorites.
That big window is going to look a little naked when the big shrub goes because the current plantings are so small. Any chance you want to put a seating area there? We snagged a beautiful picnic table from a neighbor and put it in our front yard. Having a place to sit is very inviting.