This house will be raised ten feet, post Sandy, with a federal grant. We will also add an elevator for our elderly Mom. We'd like to improve the front in terms of curb appeal. The cat eye features were added when the second floor was dormered up two years ago and they just look odd to me. Trying to figure out an attractive front stair approach, perhaps one which has a landing and turn because we probably can't come straight in. One garage below and we were thinking perhaps a recessed door/entry, something which breaks up the box effect we have now. May be able to run a shallow porch/balcony across the front. Any thoughts? We keep driving around the area to get ideas but everything is new construction and not very relatable to this house.

Just for reference, there is a large driveway to the right of the house and a detached garage. The back yard is rather small and we'd like to preserve as much of it as we can. We have a setback requirement in the front yard which likely prohibits stairs going straight out to the street, thus the need for a turn in the front stairs if we do that. We could put the stairs on the side also. Thank you!