Front Yard Landscaping Ideas

Inspiration for some new landscaping ideas for your front yard

Picture of a front yard landscape design idea with planting ideas

Coming up with ideas for front yard landscape design ideas requires the most thought based on appearance and curb appeal. Unlike backyards which are designed to be more personal areas of relaxing, entertaining, and playing, front yards are generally landscaped for everyone else to see, use, and enjoy. Most often designed to accommodate access and parking, front landscapes and design ideas should also have a sense of invitation and curb appeal that accents the style of home.

The Bones Of Front Yard Landscape Design

When someone talks about the bones of a landscape or garden design, they're talking about the frame work or structure and not necessarily the elements or materials that will be used to create them.

Primary Design Considerations for most front yard ideas, along with curb appeal, is to provide access into the home and parking areas. These are your hardscapes of sidewalks, paths, driveways, and parking areas and should be the first design considerations for the front landscape design.

Secondary design considerations for front yards are plants, trees, ground covers, lighting, and other garden decor. These will be placed in and around the entryways, sidewalks, and driveways to accent the hardscapes as well as the home.

Detailed Landscape Design Principles
Basic principles of front yard landscaping will help with ideas for the "bones" of designing landscapes. Principles Of Front Yard Landscape design - These guidelines from the Missouri State Extension are specific to front yards and will generally spark an idea or two for your landscape design.

Front Yard Landscaping Pictures

O.K., I know this is what you really came here looking for. You want to look at Pictures of front yard landscapes for ideas and inspiration. That's fine. That's actually where most folks get their inspiration.

Pictures Of Front Yard Landscape Design Ideas
This is a pretty good list of pictures of front yards that covers a lot of different landscape design styles and plan layouts. You should be able to spend hours here and at least pick up an idea or two.

Entry, Access, and Parking

Most front yard landscapes do focus on a mix of specific purposes that include comfortable access, parking, and curb appeal. And for most folks, with their budget for the front being what's left over from designing the backyard, their front yard ideas tend to stay tightly focused to the basics. Even still, the finished project can be super classy even on a minimal budget.

Comfortable access, sidewalks, and paths should be one of the first elements designated. Unless of course, you don't have a front door, plan on ever having any visitors, or everyone uses your back door.
Material choices are usually based on budget and style of home. And forget plain old gray concrete. Seriously,there are way too many affordable options available to settle for a concrete slab leading up to you front door. From decorative concrete to flagstone to pavers, it's worth it to weigh out your options

Driveway Design and parking space if any at all may be a consideration directly related to lifestyle. Some folks that do a lot of entertaining or have a lot of toys, will often trade a traditional front yard of lawn grass and plantings for mostly parking space with a few well placed planting ideas. And then some folks may not want any at all.
Driveways and parking space is most often basic and purposeful but can also be blended into the landscaping plan as circular driveways or other design ideas.

Creating Curb Appeal

Curb Appeal is actually a phrase coined by the real estate industry.

A properly landscaped yard creates curb appeal while helping your property keep its value. Poorly maintained landscaping can actually decrease the value of your home by as much as 5 or 10%.

Regardless if you have no design experience, you can still create head turning curb appeal by simply observing the basics of good landscaping principles. Letting your yard go or doing something that doesn't fit in your neighborhood can actually decrease the value of your home.

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