Would you turn a sad lawn into a paved entertaining area?
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Carole
What would you do? We have lawn at front of house and lawn beyond the looped metal fence at back of house. Our dog has access to the back lawn and regularly pees on it and then scratches up the grass like crazy. We now have dead spots, pits and troughs in the lawn and because the lawn was badly laid with little or no preparation on rocky poor soil and is full of weeds anyway, we don't feel inclined to try to fix the lawn. The dog will only damage it again anyway. There is also a gate through the fence to access the back yard and the wheel barrow and foot traffic is through and across that back lawn. I was thinking that as we are on a sloping black with no entertainment or deck area we could fix the lawn problem by removing at least 50% of the turf and adding pavers in say a checkerboard pattern, leaving some grass or step able ground covers plants to make an area where we can put a table and chairs? Anybody else done this - if so, would love to see pictures. Thanks in advance.
3 answers
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Getting rid of sad lawn is a no-brainer in my book. I got rid of a big chunk of mine and put in a large patio. The 50-50 mix is nice in theory, but I think with a table and chairs or other furniture anything under them is just going to die.
Douglas Hunt
on Aug 08, 2014
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I can tell you for sure if you have an active dog, you have to make a human space and a dog space, but when we acquired a larger dog, it was bye, bye pretty back yard. (But she is well worth it.) Fence off a combo grass/deck area for people and make it pretty. Let him join you if he behaves, or put him in his own space. Sparsely planted bordered areas can take up a lot of bad yard and mean less work and mowing. Cover the grassy areas with BEAUTIFUL thick sod!
Jeanette S
on Aug 08, 2014
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Before we added a deck at the back of our house, we wanted a place to sit in the shade , and the only shade was the front yard. We bought enough of the brick pavers ,that were 24 inch square , made a 10x10 area, We didn't even do the sand base or remove the grass, the area was already flat, just laid them on the grass. Added a bench, couple of chairs and a coffee table. It was great being out front and talking to neighbors who walked by,and by the next summer, 4 other neighbors did the samething. Worked well for several year.
Carol
on Jul 08, 2015
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