Back & Front Ideas- Mobile Home Deck Designs

Back & Front Ideas- Mobile Home Deck Designs - Today's show is all about front gardens, and well front yards for our American viewers. I will show you lots of ideas that hopefully inspire you to completely transform your front garden. Welcome to the Garden Design show! It's my mission to demystify design to make it easier for you to create your dream garden. Properly planning your garden is as vital as properly planning your home. I am Rachel Mathews and I've been a professional, international garden designer for over twenty years. I am also a best selling author and I teach garden design online. And we'll also be visiting inspiring gardens around Europe and beyond and give you plenty of ideas for your garden. Now this week's episode has come about thanks to Roger. A few weeks back he asked me to focus on front yards and entrances, so that's what we're going to do today. Now I divide front gardens into two different types, there is the purely decorative ones, that frame the front house and there is the more functional front garden that needs to incorporate a drive and other practical considerations, like a garage and perhaps a bin storage area. When it comes to designing a front garden, I have some golden rules and my first one is and this applies particularly to gardens where you need to incorporate a drive.

First and foremost you must view it as a garden. So if you didn't have to incorporate the drive or any practical solution, what is it that you, deck ideas for mobile home how would you design that garden? Then once I've made it all pretty, I then go back and rework it to put in the practical solutions of the drive or bin area, etc. Doing this way around, enables you to create much more creative and interesting gardens for the front. So I'll now show you exactly what I mean with a selection of front gardens that I've done and also I've been a little bit cheeky and I've gone around filming some gardens that I've come across. So this probably about the most unexciting front garden that you ever wish to inherit. Just tarmac and and you know there is no place to put plants and actually you can't even tell which is the front door. Your eye is drawn towards the green one, but that isn't the front at all so this one was really confusing for visitors. So what we did, we got rid of that awful tarmac and put down quite of a nice block paver, but also separated the areas off with a trellis and you'll notice over to the right there is a big curve, a circle of gravel- now that's an additional car parking space, so we cut down on the cost of the build it wasn't all brick pavers, but also that's going to have plants in it. It's going to look quite pretty as well. And then if we look through the trellis area, then suddenly, because we've angled it, you can see exactly where the front door is. So there is no confusion. And then the planting overtime, especially the climbers have grown up, will help soften this area and make it much, much prettier.

Now this one is bit of a building site, on this conversion. Now they were putting a bit of a modern frontage to it. And it was quite a difference in levels by the time they were finished. What we done with the steps, in making them come all the way across, mobile home deck designs really helps link the front of the house with the rest of the garden and as you can see this is what their view was before we landscaped. So just a drive running down the side and then the view of the sea beyond. So then by putting this deck in same level as the house, and then the plants in the round border there, that just tied in the house with the garden. All the modern landscaping with the surrounding area. And then at the front of it, there is additional car parking space. Again this gravel area was going to have lots of ground cover like Alchemilla Mollis thymes and things that could take the occasional drive over just to soften that landscaping. But your front garden doesn't have to be fancy. Now this is quite a typical one that's got a bit overgrown and the lawn has ended up being a bit of an odd shape every time. They've edged it. So this one is a very simple makeover. What we did was to incorporate a very simple shape that worked well with the house, and you'll notice it's almost the same shape as the trellis, the end of the garden there. So it all kind of tied in and you know nothing incredibly fancy. It's just neat and tidy, but having that one dominant shape really brings that to front garden together. And this is the view from the other end. As you can see it was pretty dismal with the weird shape of lawn. And they just pushing it out the other way with that curve, suddenly makes the area look so much bigger.