Your front yard landscaping sets the overall tone for your home. Call it curb appeal or call it a home improvement. Creating a functional front yard that meets your family needs, improvements the value of your home, and maybe Impresses your friends and neighbors. Heck, let's go out on a limb and say have the nicest house on the block! From a functional standpoint, you may just want to avoid walking through mud each morning on your way to work. Either way, your front yard landscape design has to both represent who you are to the world and satisfy your daily-trudge-from-driveway-to-door-to-driveway requirements. Jerry Allison Landscaping designs functional front yard entrances with a very pleasing aesthetic curb appeal.
Most people consider the side of their house facing the street as their front yard, which means cars, which means parking. In creating a front yard landscape design, we start with:
- vehicle traffic patterns
- noise mitigation
- daily family parking v occasional guest events
- and ease of access.
If backing out blind onto a busy street with foggy rear windows is not your idea of morning stress reduction, we can help design a new driveway turnaround.
If you have new teenage drivers that just can’t seem to not drive on the lawn, we can add curbs and bump stops.
If your driveway turns into a river in the rains, all flooding into your garage, we can factor in drainage.
Keeping mud out of the house, not breaking heels on the entry walkways, designing access ramps rather than steps, ensuring even safety lighting at night, making sure guests are guided and welcomed to the front door (not your side yard garbage cans), these are all part of our front yard landscape design.
With street access often times comes public access. While we consider construction setbacks, public easements, underground and overhead utility right-of-ways, street drainage, and other public restrictions to construction on your property, of more concern to most people are, well, other people, and their unwanted access (both physical and visual) to your home. Gently guiding the general public away from your home (stay off my lawn), while inviting welcomed guests to help themselves to your front door (come on in), can be a delicate balance for some locations. Visual privacy, especially at night when the street is in shadow while inside your home you are conspicuously well lit, can also influence a front yard’s landscape design.
What if your front yard has to serve a dual purpose, both journey, and destination? Do you want to party in the front with friends & family, but not the whole neighborhood? Perhaps privacy fencing or masonry walls could create a quite private front courtyard for entertaining, with a small fountain to soften the sound of street activity. Want the kids to have a place to play, just not in the street? Fencing and planting can keep soccer balls in and stray dogs out (or stray kids out and your wild dog in, either way).
Front yards have to be more than just a pretty place, they have to put a smile on your face every day you come home.
Functional front yards that are safe and fun, with attention-grabbing curb appeal. Front yard designs that welcome you home every day. There’s a lot going up front! Let Jerry Allison Landscaping guide you through the myriad of design options and criteria to create a front yard that you want to come home to.
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