Exterior stairs connecting garage and kitchen - need cover ideas

[Wen Chuang]

Dear all, sort of new here. How are you guys doing?

My mother-in-law has a house which we are helping to do some rehabbing and she is planning to rent it out.

One of the problems that we noticed, is that the exterior wood stairs (connecting the kitchen and garage) is exposed, so if it's raining, it would be very inconvenient for the tenants. So we are considering to do something about it.

Here are two photos:

Satellite picture (Google Map):

Some of the ideas are:

1. Use some sort of vinyl wave panel (e.g. Tuftex UltraVinyl Corrugated Square Wave Panel) to cover it up (both vertically and horizontally - same height as the roof), so that it would still keep the sunlight in. However, we don't know if it would look good this way.

2. Add an awning (see a picture below) - however, we are not sure if this would be high-maintenance, also it lacks the vertical side to prevent the rain, etc.

Any thoughts or comments? As much as possible we want to make it looks good, and hopefully low maintenance and reasonable priced.

Thanks for your help!