Gardening and Horticulture - Low shrub recommendation

All: I live in Ashland, MA and the family and I have a small cape style house. I am looking for recommendations for a low shrub that I can plant a few places along the front foundation of my house. I want small shrubs (approx 3 ft high at maturity) so as not to make the house look small or cover the front windows. They would get approx. 50% sun. Any ideas. The ones I have not are too tall, look like the base to approx. 75% up are dead or barren and then bushy on top. Ugly as sin. Plus I think deer like to chew on them. Peace: e3 - spamman

i was going to suggest a type of holly but in my area the deer eat them. speria are nice as well. have you htought about large hosta? i have a few and i like the ones that get 2' - 3' large.

last year i moved to my new home and there is cotteneaster (i think tha tis what it is) almost looks like a kind of holly - i like it because it is dense gets flowers and does not at all like like a small tree (hard to explain it but i do not like shrubs that look like tiny trees - i like them to be very full).

Habs11: Thanks a ton for the help. Do you think you could take a few digital photos and send them to eperry3@comcast.net? Thanks for your help. Peace: e3 - spamman

i can not any promises - i do have a digital camera but i have yet to take a picture of my 4 day old car.

i asked a similar question months ago but i searched and can not find it - i am in the north east so i am a little limited on the flowery stuff but the dense greens (pine stuff) does very well.

I think for what I am calling the "foundation" of the front line of shrubs, I am looking more for the dense pines. I saw a cape style house with low pines (shrubs maybe 2 to 3 feet high) an it looked classy. Made the house look taller too. Thanks again. Peace: e3