Hi & welcome! That IS a very beautiful home!
Agree with the above inputs, I would remove them too.
Trees & shrubs that are too close to the house can beat the heck out of the siding, or worse, during storms. I'm concerned about the other one too, farthest to the left in the pic. It will continue to get wider and taller, and flop farther to the sides, and with more force, when it storms.
If you want more shrubs, look up info about how big they can get before deciding. You can put them farther out, like those in the foreground in your pic. When they have enough room to reach their full size, you don't have to waste your weekends mangling them, and your yard will have a more natural look, not like it's hidden, or being slowly swallowed by green meatballs and cones.
There is a plant database on this site with a lot of pics. Not all plants are pictured, but it's worth checking whenever you have some kind of curiosity about a plant.
http://garden.org/plants/
