Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:08 pm
Hi,
Our detached house has the main entrance door recessed about one
metre in the gable end, adjacent to the driveway.
I'm in the process of redesigning the landscaping of the front
driveway, and have been looking at ways to "highlight" the
entrance door by using some paving tricks such as installing
different colours to highlight a path to the door.
A photo taken from the road and looking down the driveway
is available at http://www.mungoh.f2s.com/photos/RR1.jpg
The (hidden) entrance to the house has two hanging
baskets either side of it, approximately pointed at by the
green watering-can spout in the picture.
The re-design is also to widen the driveway: it already is
too narrow for modern vehicles. Add in the fact that the
missus desires a flower bed along the gable wall hence a
widening of about two metres or so should suffice.
From the photo you may see that I am pressure-washing
the existing buff paviors and removing them to storage: the plan is to re-lay these eventually.
So, any opinions out there on what could be done? My
current thought-train is to install a flower bed out from
the gable wall, use edgers to segregate this from the paving,
then install (say) a charcoal pavior "path" from the
pavement down to the entrance door (possibly making the
blocks run "linearly" (have searched for the right word and
canny find it) to draw the eye down the charcoal path
towards the entrance door).
I need to buy additional paviors anyway, so might as well
make use of a colour difference for effect.
Opinions or advice requested please; thanks in advance.
Mungo
Our detached house has the main entrance door recessed about one
metre in the gable end, adjacent to the driveway.
I'm in the process of redesigning the landscaping of the front
driveway, and have been looking at ways to "highlight" the
entrance door by using some paving tricks such as installing
different colours to highlight a path to the door.
A photo taken from the road and looking down the driveway
is available at http://www.mungoh.f2s.com/photos/RR1.jpg
The (hidden) entrance to the house has two hanging
baskets either side of it, approximately pointed at by the
green watering-can spout in the picture.
The re-design is also to widen the driveway: it already is
too narrow for modern vehicles. Add in the fact that the
missus desires a flower bed along the gable wall hence a
widening of about two metres or so should suffice.
From the photo you may see that I am pressure-washing
the existing buff paviors and removing them to storage: the plan is to re-lay these eventually.
So, any opinions out there on what could be done? My
current thought-train is to install a flower bed out from
the gable wall, use edgers to segregate this from the paving,
then install (say) a charcoal pavior "path" from the
pavement down to the entrance door (possibly making the
blocks run "linearly" (have searched for the right word and
canny find it) to draw the eye down the charcoal path
towards the entrance door).
I need to buy additional paviors anyway, so might as well
make use of a colour difference for effect.
Opinions or advice requested please; thanks in advance.
Mungo