Large corner lot cottage with no privacy.
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Comments (29)"I was hoping for some suggestions that would give me a few ideas, or a direction. " You were given numerous suggestions, ideas and direction. Evidently you didn't like any of them. In light of the new information, it's clear that you're chickening out of planting anything substantial because you're afraid it will outgrow the space. But you have plenty of room there to plant large trees. Don't don't plant them as close to the building as the others were or use smaller trees there. Not everything in the landscape is going to last for an eternity. That's part of owning a home with an established landscape is that it will require renovation. Just the same as you would remove spent seasonal flowers, you will need to remove plantings that have outgrown their space or are unhealthy. You have a blank canvas as far as I can see. I assumed you had some common wants/needs/goals for the planting. Shade, beauty, privacy. Planting small, short-lived flowering trees are fine as part of the landscape but I don't think anyone here would suggest planting only that. And if you had problems with roots, I would highly suggest NOT planting birch. The trees being mentioned here, especially some of the medium sized trees like nyssa sylvatica are very low maintenance will live a long time and add tremendously to the empty yard....See MoreTricky waterfront corner lot
Comments (27)To clarify about the palms @ left of house. I wasn't really saying to get rid of them, or that you must keep them. They seem harmless there, but that doesn't preclude you from developing a plan that's better, and ultimately removing/relocating them. If you have ideas for that area, it would be something to hash out in the conceptual design stage. For me, a great visualization tool is Microsoft Paint. It is versatile and easy to use (with each tool well explained in the "Help" section) IF you have basic drawing skills. To use it well, though, it requires that you have a stylus and touchscreen. I use it a good bit to give feedback to people who post in this forum. In your case, however, the pictures you've submitted are not conducive to doing this as they are incomplete views of house faces, and are also from strong angles. For working on the front yard, for example, I'd stand on the city sidewalk, directly in line with the front door (for all pictures) and begin taking shots that aim to the left side of the yard. Pivot the camera rightward and continue taking shots -- all of which would overlap -- until you have captured the right side of the yard. By this manner, all pictures can be pasted into a single window of MS Paint. There, they are cut and re-pasted into a single, wide-view panorama that gives someone a good, realistic idea of how your whole front yard fits together with its surroundings. (This process cannot be shortcut with a panorama app that creates a single panorama out of multiple pictures. That process shrinks and distorts the pictures too much so they no longer convey realistic relationships of things in the picture to other things in the picture.) If you want to do this, consider starting a new thread for the particular face of the house you want to work on and upload the sequence of pictures....See MoreCorner lot - landscaping for privacy?
Comments (14)Young trees will root better. You have to wait about three years before they start to 'take off' in size. Planting trees along your property lines won't give you privacy in the raised kitchen or on the raised deck for a long time -- and then, primarily in the summer. I'd plant some 'high canopy' type trees inside the yard, closer to the house. Maples form dense canopies. Partially enclosing the deck would help. Arbor Vitae planted around the base of the deck would provide screening -- maybe too much screening, making the deck look even smaller....See MoreHelp with corner-lot, custom home floor plans
Comments (72)cp and bpath—thanks so much. I definitely see your points. Now I’m wondering about stretching the whole house to the left to be in line with the butler’s pantry as currently constructed, then moving the garage storage to the other side. I like what you did with the master suite, cp, though the asymmetry introduced into the left and right sides as a result of the smaller study may be getting close to the uncanny valley. I definitely see where you’re going, though. I need to think on the kitchen. The layout bp suggested is almost exactly what we have in our current home, except we have a U-shaped kitchen. The oven in our current house is where the fridge is in this design, and the fridge in the current house is on a wall where the breakfast nook is in this design. And I still don’t love walking into the breakfast nook. It needs to move. The “dog yard” is just shorthand for a separate area apart from the back yard. It will be kept clean and ununappetizing. And in re the three eating areas: yes, we use all three regularly. We host extended family (10+ people) dinner once per week (need: large dining room), have nightly dinner with the children every night (need: breakfast nook), and the kids eat at the countertop bar every morning (need: countertop bar). The formal dining is too big and formal (rugs don’t mix well with messy small offspring) for nightly dinner. The countertop bar is where the kids interact with us while they eat and we unload dishes, make lunches, etc. Could we conform to just two eating areas? Sure. But that feels like the tail wagging the dog....See MoreSigrid
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