ph. Silvia Longhi
Large rural front formal full sun garden for summer in Venice with natural stone paving.

karrinyup courtyards

Cultivart Landscape Design

Peta North
Inspiration for a small contemporary front garden in Perth with a water feature and decking.

Cottage garden feels with a lot of textural interest!

Inspiring Landscape Solutions by Parveen Dhaliwal

Front garden was redesigned to allow for more parking for the family's children and to allow a path straight from the road to the front door. A new pedestrian gate and automatic gate was put in. New plants were planted below the existing liquidambar tree which has a family of owls nesting in it.

Front and Back Garden Revamp, Little Chalfont

Chiltern Garden Design

Front entrance to this arts and crafts house softened with warm coloured planting, anchored with yew balls and delineated with a stone circle, with ripples out into the gravel driveway and planting.

Das Ökopflaster für Hof, Einfahrt & Weg.

Rinn Beton- und Naturstein

Das Ökopflaster eignet sich ideal für Einfahrt, Hof und Wege. Eine hohe Wasserdurchlässigkeit ermöglicht das Versickern des Wassers und führt es zu dem natürlichen Wasserkreislauf zurück.. Das Pflaster ist zudem hergestellt aus 40% Recyclinggranulat.

Australian Native Front Yard

City Botanics

Photo of a medium sized contemporary front xeriscape full sun garden in Sydney with a rockery and brick paving.

Corten panels installed

Georgia Lindsay Garden Design

Design ideas for a small modern front partial sun garden in London.

St Göransgtan Malmö

Fotograf Jonas Norén

Photo of a medium sized classic front formal garden for summer in Malmo with a retaining wall and natural stone paving.

Small overlooked garden with pleached trees

Zinnia Garden Design

Small country front partial sun garden in London with brick paving.

Country Gardens

Ann-Marie Powell Gardens Ltd

Photo of a rural front garden in Hampshire.

Stylish Front Garden

Christine Wilkie Garden Design

The front garden of this period Edwardian property in Acton, west London, was a large expanse of concrete hard standing, and overgrown planting. The aim of the garden design was to create a garden that combined space for off-street parking for one car, architectural soft landscaping as well as a spot in which to sit and enjoy the garden. The style of the new garden had to be sympathetic to the house and it was important that the end result was more contemporary front garden than everyday driveway. Additional screening to the neigbouring boundary wall was a key requirement, as was the need to keep an existing cherry tree.

EUGÈNE

Ameo Concept

Situé au cœur de la dynamique ville de Puteaux, à deux pas de La Défense, cet appartement de 28m2 était dans un état de détérioration avancé, résultante de l’absence de travaux pendant plusieurs décennies. Malgré son état défraîchi, la présence d’un jardin à l’avant du bien conquis immédiatement la propriétaire qui y vu un atout majeur. Investissement en guise de pied à terre, le cahier des charges était clair : créer un espace nuit indépendant, condamner l’accès par les parties communes pour entrer dans l’appartement par le jardin, le tout dans une ambiance épurée et lumineuse. Résultat : un espace extérieur métamorphosé avec une terrasse accueillante, donnant l’accès à la pièce à vivre. Une cuisine fonctionnelle où de nombreux rangements se combinent à l’électroménager dissimulé (lave vaisselle et réfrigérateur sous plan), s’articule autour d’un espace dînatoire sur mesure pour trois convives. Le sanitaire indépendant prend place avant l’accès à « la suite ». La chambre en second jour baignée de lumière grâce à la verrière en tête de lit, abrite un linéaire dressing et une bibliothèque. Enfin, la salle d’eau dévoile une belle douche de 130x90cm, combiné à un plan vasque sous lequel se dissimule le lave linge encastré. Les matériaux naturels se conjuguent à la praticité d’usage ; un carrelage effet parquet au sol de l’ensemble de la surface réchauffe l’atmosphère. Béton ciré, peinture à la chaux, tissus chinés et lumières indirectes créent ainsi un cocon chaleureux où les nuances de blancs et de beiges s’unissent. Un projet clé en main intérieur/extérieur pour ce nouveau deux pièces métamorphosé.

Rendered brick raised garden beds with stone feature path.

Bobtail Landscaping

Filletti stone pavers, Summerstone fines and Rainbow stone gravel really set off this rendered brick garden bed.
Photo of a medium sized contemporary front xeriscape full sun garden in Perth with a raised bed and gravel.

Victorian Foundry

greencube garden and landscape design

Paying homage to the foundry and its history we have implemented lots of wonderful weathering corten steel in strong geometric wedges. Someone said 'its a bit rusty', we hope you like it, its a rich and developing patina that gets warmer in colour with age and works contextually with the original use of the building. We have designed a garden for a victorian foundry in Walsingham in North Norfolk converted into holiday cottages in the last decade. The foundry originally founded in 1809, making iron castings for farming industry, war casualties ended the male line and so in 1918 it was sold to the Wright family and they continued to trade until 1932, the depression caused its closure. In 1938 it was purchased by the Barnhams who made agricultural implements, pumps, firebowls, backplates, stokers, grates and ornamental fire baskets............ and so we have paid homage to the foundry and its history and implemented lots of wonderful weathering steel. The planting palette inlcudes large leafy hostas, ferns, grasses, hydrangeas and a mix of purple and yellow with a sprinkling of orange perennials.

JARDIN PAYSAGE / LANDSCAPE GARDEN

Vincent GRUNEWALD

Vincent GRUNEWALD
Photo of an expansive coastal front driveway full sun garden in Lyon with a potted garden and concrete paving.

GRUPO MARJAL | Las Colinas Golf & Country Club

Masfotogenica Fotografia

Photography: Carlos Yagüe para Masfotogenica Fotografia Decoration Styling: Pili Molina para Masfotogenica Interiorismo Comunication Agency: Estudio Maba Builders Promoters: GRUPO MARJAL Architects: Estudio Gestec

A Contemporary Garden for an Architect Designed House

User

This is an example of a medium sized contemporary front formal full sun garden for summer in Other with natural stone paving.

Front Garden - Court Lane

Kate Eyre Garden Design

green roof of bespoke bin park
Photo of a medium sized contemporary front driveway garden in London with gravel.

Toorak Contemporary Japanese

Kihara Landscapes

Photo by Patrick Redmond
Large world-inspired front xeriscape garden for autumn in Melbourne with a garden path and natural stone paving.

Country Giardino

Inspiration for a farmhouse front formal full sun garden for spring in Other with a garden path and natural stone paving.

Front Garden Ideas and Designs

Making a good first impression is important and when it comes to your home, your front garden is the first thing someone will see. With these front garden ideas you can have the sort of kerb appeal your neighbours envy.

Front gardens are different from back gardens as they are more for show than to sit and relax in. Just think, when have you ever taken time out in your front garden?

Front garden design doesn’t have to be over the top or complicated when just adding a bit of greenery can make so much difference.

When designing your front garden, you need to keep in mind that the garden helps to provide structure and also needs to be relatively low maintenance. The layout of your front garden should direct visitors where your front door is. This seems like an obvious point but is one that is sometimes forgotten.

If you use your front garden as a driveway too, then your design will have to include space to park vehicles. Perhaps you will create two distinct areas to divide your front garden for the purpose. Gravel paving is a low cost, low maintenance option that can work in any front garden.

Planting floral displays and other foliage will help your front garden look beautiful and add some colour. Choose plants and evergreen shrubs that will look good all year round. You don’t want your garden to only look good in the spring and summer. Even in winter time, it is important for your front garden to appeal and look inviting.

Using large pots to plant things in is also another way to add colour and life to your garden especially when you’re tight on space and cannot create a flower bed.

Trees are great for creating some privacy and also look good but when it comes to a front garden, they are not the best idea. You cannot control how a tree grows and the roots can end up growing under the foundations of your house making it almost impossible to remove it. If you have a bigger front garden which is set further away from your house, they can still be an option. When planting trees, be aware that they will block some of the light getting into the house as they grow.

Use these front garden ideas as inspiration when it comes to designing yours. If you need more help creating something beautifully unique, contact one of the hundreds of garden professionals available on Houzz.

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