Get In Front With Your Front Garden
Front gardens are really important to us here at Vialii and are often over-looked in favour of their big sister, the back garden. But they have so much potential and this blog will tell you how to “get in front” with your outside space…
Why is a front garden so important?
Well, there are a LOT of reasons why we think front gardens are really important and here are some of them:
- Your front garden gives you a warm welcome home and can give you fuzzy feeling inside. Coming home to a mono blocked driveway doesn’t give that same feeling so create something lovely which will improve your mental health and well-being.
- Add kerb appeal! Your front garden is the first impression people will get about you and your home, so make it a good one. And it can potentially add value to your home too.
- Create an additional seating area. Your front garden may have the perfect sunny spot to sit outside in the evening. It can create a more sociable area too, where you can interact with neighbours and improve community spirit.
- By reducing the amount of hard landscaping and adding planting you will have a positive impact on pollution and flooding as well as creating more habitats for wildlife.
- A well designed front garden can add screening and improve privacy.
- It can provide additional growing space for fruit and veg. Perhaps you don’t have space in your back garden or want to use it for something else. The front garden can be the perfect spot for growing edibles and dot in some ornamentals (or edimentals) for the best of both worlds.
- By adding to plain lawn/hard landscaping, a designed front garden will stop people walking across your front garden or taking the wrong route to your front door.
- Create an infrastructure which works for parking, access to front door, back garden and bins, whilst softening it with planting.
- Consider alternative parking solutions which look great and are better for the environment. Permeable finishes and planted borders for water run off can really help.
This front garden in Larbert has a lovely combination of gravel, cobbles, chunky timbers and planting.
How do I go about re-designing my front garden?
Think about how you want to use your front garden and what things are on your wish list. Do you want parking, seating, paths, lawn, planting, raised beds etc? It can be difficult to fit in all that you want and to not do something against local planning rules. Please get in touch for a free garden design consultation, so we can help transform your front garden.
Thanks for reading
Vialii
A Relaxing Garden in Dunblane
Our clients asked us to redesign their garden and wanted to get rid of their old decking and create a seating area in the sunniest corner of the garden. The rear boundary needed to be unified and made more appealing and new paths and planting was a must. With design tools at the ready, we set about creating a relaxing garden in Dunblane!
Before – an unappealing back garden
After – the garden has been transformed
The clients were adding a new contemporary extension to the house and wanted a beautiful garden to look out onto and enjoy. Existing trees were kept and new planting added to provide year round interest. The “utility” area was revamped with new veg beds, paving and gravel.
The new extension
The new paths and patio were created using a beautiful golden sandstone edged in setts. Chunky timber sleepers were used as a retaining wall in order to create a flatter lawn area and step down to the new patio.
Beautiful new sandstone paving
A beautiful array of planting provides year round interest, attracts wildlife, provides scent as you relax in the sunshine and softens the hard landscaping.
Planting surrounds the seating area
View up to the stunning new extension
Where the old deck was, new lawn and planting was added. A new horizontally slatted fence at the bottom of the garden unifies this are and provides a backdrop to the new planting.
The lawn is surrounded by planting
If you have a garden that you need help designing please get in touch to arrange our free design consultation.
Vialii