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Originally Posted by ShocknAwe
Based on your roofline, you need to decide whether it's a tree, or a bush.
As it is now, it's too big to be a bush, and too bushy to be a tree. If you want a tree, clean up the lower parts and shape it, then let it grow wild. If it's a bush, lop off the top half of it and groom that sucker.
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^^^ This.
It probably doesn't matter which way you decide, but either way, you got work to do.
FWIW, I'd go the bush route, dramatically pruning those things back and enduring their looking "rough" until next season when they'll have grown out and look nice and green, full and leafy again. I'd go that way with them because (1) I think it'd be less work than trying to make them be "tree-style," and (2) because that manicured "tree-style" that looks nice so close to a building is comparatively more work to keep it looking right year in and year out than it is to just shear a bush on four sides and the top. (If you have a gardener, pick whatever looks the way you want it to look.)
All the best.