front of the house needs some details
Sara S
4 years ago
Can anyone edit my house using this blue color on my door and show me a couple sago palms in pots ?
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PROPatricia Colwell Consulting
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoSara S
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New (to us) house - looking for some front porch/yard ideas!
Comments (12)Yes those V shaped things at the top of your post should be removed. It shouldn't be difficult. Your hanging baskets need to hang lower. Go to your big box store and have them cut you some heavy chain in about 1 to 1 1/2 ft length to lower the baskets. Most baskets need to be watered at least every 2 days, some times every day depending on the weather. Also once a week submerge the whole basket in a bucket of water and let it sit for a half an hour to an hour to re-dehydrate the soil. I like the idea of a yellow front door and yellow flowers. It is only paint. Tell the hubby if he doesn't like it, it can be repainted. Take him with you when you go pick out the paint and have him pick out 3 yellows he likes and then you choose between them. That way he has a stake in the color. If you don't like any that he picked out just buy the color you like and wait a few week to paint. Then when he says it doesn't look the same just tell him it is hard to visualize a color from a little paint chip. Lucky me my husband lets all the decorating up to me. If it was up to him he would buy a 5 gallon bucket of white paint and paint everything in and out the same....See MoreFront of house is boring. I need some inspiration!
Comments (24)I'm in the midwest, and I added lots of flowering shrubs, evergreen shrubs, and semi-evergreen plants so that my mostly partial-shady lot looks good when everything else is brown in the late fall, non-snow-covered days in winter, and early spring. Unlike the previous two winters, this one has been light on snow. I love coming and going to the house from the mailbox by the street and seeing a variety of evergreen shrubs and trees of various types and sizes - yews (Capitata, emerald spreader, "traditional"), Canadian hemlocks, Siberian cypresses, azaleas & rhodies, and where I have more sun various lower mugo pines, spruces, arborvitaes and junipers. Actually, right now, the (confined) periwinkle, low azaleas, and hellebore leaves going up my front walk look almost as fresh as in the spring. In the spring I love watching the flowering shrubs come out, and in the fall those with leaves that turn are gorgeous. Once in a while we get deer here, so I do have roses, hostas and daylilies that sometimes get nibbled on in passing, but so far not destroyed. And interspersed among everything are peonies, coral bells, foamy bells, astilbes, wildflowers, dozens of clematis vines, and some other perennials. But I would never be without the beautiful shrubs! To choose the right plant for the right place, one year I did hourly sun charts once a month for lots of locations from spring to fall, so I'd know where to put what, and researched the plants I liked before buying any. Anne...See MoreLandscaping Ideas for this MCM house? Front yard needs some control
Comments (10)Oh wow… what a house. I would hire a landscape architect with experience with MCMs, even if you do the labor yourself. We have a sloping small backyard (in LA), but had someone draw up some plans based on our rough ideas. He also let us know what we could and could not afford on our budget. I thought we could afford a deck using certain material (i looked at material pricing plus estimated labor), and he said that is NOT in your budget, hahaha. He was also very helpful in designing it for us to add stuff later easily, whether underground or above ground....See MoreNeed help with some details on a whole house remodel plan.
Comments (2)You need to do a to scale drawing of the whole house with every window , doorway and where the doorways lead This needs to be done on graph paper to make it easier , jpeg format and every measurement clearly marked . Your drawing has not one measurement so no one can even begin to help. We also need pictures of things like the flagstone wall. Please post all of these things in comments here do not start another post ....See More
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