Timing of Building New Construction and Creating Landscape
chueh
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Comments (28)Well if you're like most N. Americans you approach your house by the driveway, park in the driveway/garage, and enter the house through a door from the garage. Basically most people use the most direct and utilitarian entrance to their house, as opposed to the more formal and grand entrance. That one being only saved for the FEDex or pizza guy. You should be focusing on making your approach to the house welcoming... not just for the deliverly folks. Can't tell, but it appears you must drive past the front of the house to get to the driveway. However, all of your pics/discussion are centered around mitigating the triangle above the garage, which could be as simple as a small window, partial change of siding, to simply being ignored, but what about right side of the house or your most common approach to the house up the driveway? What's being done there that ties in with an overall utilization and enhancement plan? A pic from the driveway to the house and from the driveway to the frontwalk would presnet a different aspect to consider as well....See MoreHelp with New Construction Landscape Design Ideas
Comments (5)Those are the best looking garage doors that anyone has brought to the forum in quite some time. The house is nice looking, too. The forum is a place where you can get help with landscape design and related issues, but you must keep in mind that is has limitations. For one, if the conversation is too wide spread -- about all areas of a large yard, for example -- it can quickly become confusing. It's best to focus on one area for a given thread ... a front yard, for example. It's best to work through that and then move on to other areas with new threads. And giving "help" means giving you assistance. You will still have work to do in converting any advice you get, whether it be verbal or graphic, into a workable PLAN. Either you must do it, or you must hire a landscape designer or architect to do it. But you really can't do landscape work, at least in any well organized, logical manner, without a plan on paper. On a larger than average property, a plan would be especially necessary if you mean to avoid waste and mistakes. Given that your are probably going to reside at the property for many years and will surely want to create a property as nice as the home, I highly recommend that you hire a landscape designer to work out all of the issues that you'll face while planning a quality landscape ... especially if you're not able to visualize things easily. Meanwhile, you can work on sorting through your thoughts on the project and on a direction to take the design. I'd suggest you start with the front yard. In order to do that you'll need to supply better pictures. In taking them what's important is not just what's directly in front of the house, but in an area the surrounds the house about 20' - 30' out, including the ends. Also, when taking pictures for those who can't personally visit the site, it's best if the camera is lined up with the center of the scene. For a given scene the camera must stay in one location and only pivot for each picture. Snap from left to right while taking slightly overlapping pictures and post them all, not a panorama made from them. That's a starting point. Another picture that is usually important to show is one of the front of the house as one sees it from a distance, showing how it fits in with the neighborhood. since you probably have a very large front yard, you might show it from where you see the house upon entering the property. If that's too far away, maybe as you're seeing it from a hundred or more feet away. Hard to be too exact without knowing what you're working with. You might also include a view from Google Satellite if that will help explain the overall layout....See MoreNew Construction Landscape Piece
Comments (10)I don't get the reasoning of why one style (rectilinear) would necessarily invite, or be compatible with, a contrasting style (curvilinear.) I have to disagree with you OP. I don't see that the niche is asking for anything more than a single shrub, trained as a half-dome. The other, lower-to-ground windows, I think are going to be easily overwhelmed by the shrubs you have there. For those, I'd have a perennial in the 1 1/2' height range. Needs some small tree forms off of the house corners, too. It looks like a cheery house ... except for the gloomy black posts and door. If you want a birdbath, gazing ball or some such thing, create groundcover beds under the trees and add it to one of those beds....See MoreNew Construction: Landscaping Fears!
Comments (16)Couple things to address: - A builder usually includes a cost for a topsoil topping with sod front/seed back or all sod/all seed. Did you verify your contract? - The reason the cost is included is because many jurisdictions require the yard to be minimum seeded. There are sometimes separate entities (e.g. city vs township/county) for parkway restoration and performance bonds for those too. Often there can be Partial/Substantial Certificate of Occupancy (regional variation of terms) that allows you to move in without final grading/seeding, usually depending on seasons, not usually because the homeowner is broke. Can you verify? - It appears that your hilly site will have erosion without some grass cover. There will be plenty of weeds, but that probably won't prevent the erosion. Your neighbors sitting in their pool won't appreciate having to look at the erosion control fence, dirt canyons, and weeds for a year. - You will not want the dog to do it's business and roll around in exposed dirt and have to worry about cleaning paws many times a day for the next year. - However, a year from now in May 2023 you may still be under construction, so your wallets may have replenished to afford a topping and grass cover and this is all moot....See Morechueh
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