Need advice on landscaping the front of my house
Would love advice or ideas on how to landscape front of my house and what color you recommend for the front door. It's a semi detached home (the one on the right).
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navy blue would look great
Hi Shaina, just wanted to check. Is it the one on the left or the one on the right that's been cut off in the photo?
Is your home the red brick or the sided one?
Hi,
If your home is the Red Brick home with two conifers outside, I would not change the colour of the door, but I might add tallish coloured plants in between the conifers or maybe add a Yellow or variegated foliage shrub.
If your home is the red brick, I love a nicely painted black door or navy blue with red brick. In our home we got rid of the storm door and changed the door with one that has a beautiful leaded window to add light. I love it!! That way we can still get the light we had when we had the storm door there. Just throwing out an idea. Also add another bush in between the 2 sculpted small pines. You could add a mulch bed on the right of the walkway and steps with some flowers.
I think a flowering shrub between the 2 small arborvitaes would help hide the gas meter. You could keep the grass right up to the sloped part of the lawn and cover the slope with some pretty ground cover and flowers. Bugleweed it a good choice.
I would go with a pop of color on the door like teal.
As for landscaping, a few pots with bright colors and a bit of decor draped on the porch railing.
If you change the color of the door, it will throw everything off balance. Instead, you might add color by painting the trim an accent color. Maybe a forest green to match the shrubs - and don't forget the window trim! For landscaping, you might consider a rock garden on the front slope (I hate mowing slopes, myself.) and a bed of flowers or small flowering shrubs just in front of the porch between the cedars. Choose something that's naturalized to your planting zone that appeals to you and your level of gardening expertise. Make sure you edge it. You might want to add some hanging baskets on the porch. And maybe a cute garden sculpture for some fun.
I would go dark for the door, just because everything is so red. I'd also do a retaining wall beside the steps, something simple, and definitely not red brick, then plant grass in the area in front of the retaining wall, fresh grass in the yard and colorful flowering bushes in front of the porch. I, personally, love the arborvitae, as they are clean and don't bush out too much, but removing the one next to the steps would give you more room to plant something pretty, which the one on the corner is a nice break from all the cement and brick.
The world is your oyster here and depends on your goals, willingness to maintain, and what planting zone/amount of daylight you receive. I’d paint or replace the railing, add flowering plants in the yard.
I'd add colorful perennial plants between your sidewalk and the neighbor's to delineate your side. More larger perennials or small shrubs betwen the two plants already there. I would paint your door and storm door a color you love and leave the rest of the trim white as is. You have a stately place!
Plant ground cover on the slope and either tall flowers between the two evergreen or another rounded shrub. Make a circle in the front with perhaps a birdbath in the middle surrounded by flowers and bordered with river rock. Paint the door what ever your favorite color is. The sky is the limit. It is YOUR home. Turquoise, green and peach all go well with redbrick.
You want to add color. In the form of colorful plants or pots. I think the front door would look nice (and stand out) if you painted it yellow. It doesn't have to be school bus yellow it could be a butter cream. But carry on with the yellow theme by choosing plants with yellow foliage or blooms.
Thank you all so much for the advice. My house is the red brick semi detached on the right hand. So in this photo it's in the middle. I love that many of you are suggesting door colors I have been considering, blue, teal, and yellow were my first choices. I just can't decide.
Whatever you decide on please let us know and good luck!
Your house looks great!
I think your house is beautiful and so. You can only refresh the paint a little and nothing more. In general, I would advise you to contact a landscape designer. Landscape designers not only select plants, but also think through lighting and communications, design recreation areas. They make sketches, create drawings of the project and monitor the implementation.When we moved to a new house, I decided to hire professionals and turned to Christies Landscape. I really like the result of their work.
I'm sure that it was a lot of work to finish everything. I'm planning on buying a piece of land and building my dream house, but it's so expensive. I even want to hire a landscaper from jscustomlandscaping.com in order to have beautiful scenery. I know that everything is going to pay off. My wife also likes my ideas and we're good to go regarding this matter. Slowly, but surely, we're going to have enough money to achieve this dream. After all, this house is going to be around for many years and we have to make sure that we will be using quality materials