Yup, as you can see now, my whole place is VERY exposed. We always considered planting something to block the road out....something fast growing that would give us more of a feel that we have our little "sanctuary" here at home... we have NO privacy. No matter what I'm doing outside, people always stare as they drive by, in fact, you can see the turn around there in the driveway, not only do we MANY times a day have people turning around in our driveway, but we've even had people with the nerve to pull all the way INTO our driveway, use that turn around, then pull out! We even had one gal back up towards teh barn and get stuck...and asked us to pull her out. Many times a day, people use our driveway to turn around in. The privacy issue is a whole other matter, but I'm glad you brought it up, because it's important to me as well. I've always said, I love our property. It's beautiful, with a large pond and woods right in our back yard, but the front of the house faces a county highway, and no privacy whatsoever. The barn is our horse barn. It's nothing fancy...my husband built it in a weekend, (with some help, of course!), and provides shelter for our 2 big horses, 2 miniature horses, and three miniature donkeys. We also have a couple bunnies out there. What isn't in the photo is our chicken coop, which my husband also built. In the pic with the white pickup, the chicken coop sits about where the back of the truck is. The siding matches the house nicely, and I planted a couple of emerald arborvitaes, small ones, one on each side of the door, and have some potted flowers there. Hubby just put in my cute little hanging solar lanterns on it too. I should get an updated picture. I'd like to dress up the coop as well, maybe shutters or a window box or something, since because of zoning issues, that was about the only place they'd let us put it, and sticking out like a sore thumb, it had to look nice! The projects here will never stop!! ANd thanks for the link on the yard photos....most of those were absolutely stunning!!!! Definite ideas there. I had to sigh at the palm trees. I'm in love with them. But, not here in WI! lol Angie

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IMO any time the garage door takes over the front it needs to be awesome and in this case for sure so something in wood with windows and the same wood as the front door .As for the landscaping I agree those clumpy shrubs need to go no matter what they are and that gate and fence in no way suit the house maybe paint it black or somethig if you have to keep it. or even the same as the new garage door. The entry needs to have some good plantings in the dirt area and since I have no idea where you live just go to the local garden center and see what they suggest . That area is open to the sky so you should be able to add some color there and IMO not a good place for seating You could do something like this along the left wall or even the right side that entry needs some pizazz for sure. If you did this on the right side just some nice pea gravel and the pots set on top

Hi all, and thanks for remembering my bathroom so well! Here it is: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5437746/bathroom-reveal-ada-shower-with-custom-vanity-in-small-bathroom#n=51 I think I have complete information on that thread, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask. We also widened all of our doorways to 36” with this project, which meant moving two hall/bedroom walls and fixing their flooring. Click on the pictures to see them whole. Houzz crops them. Photo shows the step up into house from foyer and the hall from foyer to bedrooms. The door dead ahead is the master bedroom. The wall there has been angled to accommodate a 36” door. The door used to be on the right, facing right, just like the closet door next to it. The new wall on the left, across from the master bedroom, was also angled, that bedroom losing a few square feet. See the plywood subfloor triangle on the left? That shows where the wall was removed. The room with plastic over the doorway is the middle bedroom. It lost just under a foot of width to give the bathroom shower enough room and to make the new cupboard there. No need to move its door. Bathroom is to the left, out of the shot. The hallway going right leads to kitchen, family room, and half bath. We did not widen the door to the half bath. This shows how the walls inside the master bedroom were changed to fit a 36” door. If our door is open, now, I can lean out of bed a bit and see the front door of the house. I have a shade in the hall I can pull down to cover the entry hall from the foyer if we want privacy from anyone peeking in the beveled and textured glass from the front porch. We already have a ramp into the house and a ramp permanently built into the floor of the step-down from kitchen to family room. I have an aluminum ramp I can install again for the 4” step from foyer to hall. We eliminated the step down from foyer to living room/office/library/music room when that floor was repoured. Currently, I am still walking, so I can do that 4” step from the foyer, but I do have a brass handhold there to help me negotiate that step. (You can see a glimpse of its bottom in the first photo above, to the right of the opening to the hall.). We did use the 4” ramp from the foyer for 3+ years after Dad became too weak to walk, and it does look cheesy, but it works fine. I use Ez-Access Transitions ramps. Had a 6” one between the family room and kitchen for 5 years before my contractor remodeled the kitchen in 2010. EZ-Access Transitions ramps All of our floors are either Marmoleum roll linoleum or cork snap-together plank flooring. Tile in the bathroom and half bath.