Landscaping wheelchair accessibility to front door
Savvy T
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Comments (20)Yup, as you can see now, my whole place is VERY exposed. We always considered planting something to block the road out....something fast growing that would give us more of a feel that we have our little "sanctuary" here at home... we have NO privacy. No matter what I'm doing outside, people always stare as they drive by, in fact, you can see the turn around there in the driveway, not only do we MANY times a day have people turning around in our driveway, but we've even had people with the nerve to pull all the way INTO our driveway, use that turn around, then pull out! We even had one gal back up towards teh barn and get stuck...and asked us to pull her out. Many times a day, people use our driveway to turn around in. The privacy issue is a whole other matter, but I'm glad you brought it up, because it's important to me as well. I've always said, I love our property. It's beautiful, with a large pond and woods right in our back yard, but the front of the house faces a county highway, and no privacy whatsoever. The barn is our horse barn. It's nothing fancy...my husband built it in a weekend, (with some help, of course!), and provides shelter for our 2 big horses, 2 miniature horses, and three miniature donkeys. We also have a couple bunnies out there. What isn't in the photo is our chicken coop, which my husband also built. In the pic with the white pickup, the chicken coop sits about where the back of the truck is. The siding matches the house nicely, and I planted a couple of emerald arborvitaes, small ones, one on each side of the door, and have some potted flowers there. Hubby just put in my cute little hanging solar lanterns on it too. I should get an updated picture. I'd like to dress up the coop as well, maybe shutters or a window box or something, since because of zoning issues, that was about the only place they'd let us put it, and sticking out like a sore thumb, it had to look nice! The projects here will never stop!! ANd thanks for the link on the yard photos....most of those were absolutely stunning!!!! Definite ideas there. I had to sigh at the palm trees. I'm in love with them. But, not here in WI! lol Angie...See Moreneed help with getting wheelchair out of mobile home
Comments (1)You can buy threshold ramps. Do a search online, or here is an example. http://www.discountramps.com/thresh_ramps.htm Here is a link that might be useful: Threshold Ramp...See MoreFront of house - landscape to deemphasize secondary door? 7A
Comments (17)I was going to make the same comment that the path coming from the parking area seems to be VERY narrow, especially for a house that looks so nice. The path to the front entrance seems wide enough. But the path to the kitchen door seems much too narrow, too. I would NOT make it more narrow or change to stepping stones. If anything, I'd widen it so that it was genuinely functional. Diminishing its quality -- which is already subpar -- is not the answer to getting people to ignore it. A simple gate would be a better solution than that. (I cannot tell you with this drawing what is a really good solution because that area does not show well enough.) I don't hate your large, wild evergreens that flank the front door -- now -- but I'm sure I'd dislike them quite a bit in the future. They seem of the wrong character and size for that important spot. I'd ditch them in favor of some monster color flanking the steps and a couple of nice coach lamps flanking the door. The small trees are made of large shrubs. Something with a major flower show would be good. All matched of course. I would bring a semi-circle of turf in front of the main section of the house. The windows are so low there is not a need for shrubs per se. Instead, I'd use a solid, uniform groundcover to fill in all the planting bed space. It could be Liriope (a single variety) or something even a little lower. Someone had better learn how to properly trim a hedge or it's going to look terrible in years to come....See MoreLandscaping Front Yard around existing trees
Comments (9)"Jap" is a pejorative dating back to the Second World War. Weeping Japanese lace-leaf maples of the size shown here are worth thousands of dollars on the retail market. Specialists in large trees catering to the demand for instant landscaping here "mine" them from old properties and re-plant them elsewhere, getting again, thousands of dollars for them in the process. If there is one of these kinds of operations working your local area you may be able to get one of them to take yours away for free, if nothing else. Of course, they may want to be able to drive up to it with a machine and scoop it up all in one move. With the tree right in front of your house, with buried utilities perhaps present and a lawn you want to keep this may not be feasible. If you are wondering the taller shape shown in the Dig Doug cartoon would be achieved by installing an adequate stake and training the existing specimen up, to be more tree-like. And visually effective....See MoreSavvy T
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