All tagged Design
Our general style choice is modern, and our yard is no exception. However, a good design still takes into account the local materials and the existing design queues, so we wanted to make it fit with the house, while improving it at the same time. Flagstone is quite common in Colorado as a material, so for the front yard we decided to keep and use as much flagstone as made sense. It also looked good with the brick, so why not re-use an expensive material?
I don’t think we started our yard overhaul with big ambitions. We wanted something that we would enjoy - which basically meant a place to hangout that has plants. Lots of plants. The realities we faced with the existing yard and the issues we needed to address did dictate our scope though - at the very least we needed to fix the issues we had with the siding not being visible in places and the drainage in the backyard being problematic. Also, it turns out we like nice things. So, in typical fashion for us, we decided let’s go big, or go home? Wait a second…
