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Front yard transformation

prettyliving
Amassing an Audience

Front yard transformation

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Hi Workshop Members! 
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted on here, but here’s a project I’ve been up to that has a pretty cool story behind it.


We recently bought a house, it was built in 1990 and needs some work. While we plan & save for renos I’ve been tidying up the front and back yard. One day while I was trying to tidy up the driveway (the grass was very overgrown) I discovered wooden garden bed edging buried underneath the grass running along the driveway. I was pretty excited and got straight to work digging up the grass to reveal that wooden edging. As I got closer to the house the edging took a turn off into the grass area. 

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then did some research and found an old picture of our house on google maps from 15+years ago and saw that there once was an extra parking area right in front of the house!

As our driveway is a single car driveway, this would be perfect for parking so I decided to follow the old wooden edging and dig it all up. By shovel! 🤪

 

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Underneath it all was compact gravel - which explains why the grass struggled so badly there in summer!  

It took a few weeks and we filled around 15 trailer loads worth of sand and grass.
I also discovered all the old retic and some more edging along the garden beds around the house. 
Turns out around 15 years ago the original owners wanted more lawn so had a truck dump a heap of sand over the entire front yard. 
Most of the original wooden edging was still in good useable condition, while other sections were pretty rotten so I replaced that area (around the garden beds) with large rocks that I got for free. 

I also dug out another garden bed along the front and planted some hedge plants for future privacy. 
Overall I’m so happy with how much better and practical our front yard is! The best part was it only cost around $300 (the cost of the hedge plants) as we salvaged most of the original garden bed edging and did all the work ourselves. ☺️

 

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prettyliving
Amassing an Audience

Re: Front yard transformation

Hi, @Jason 

 

It’s looking beautiful, all the grass has filled in nicely, the hedges are growing and the plants are flowering. I’m going to remulch all the garden beds next week so I’ll share some updated pics once it’s finished. ☺️

Re: Front yard transformation

Terrific, it will be great to see how it's looking now @prettyliving. We've just turned it into a Featured Project on the site as it has been popular. Congrats and thanks again for sharing.

 

Jason

 

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