What I am absolutely offended by is the state of that garden. The interior of the house has so much personality and yet the garden is so depressing and grey?
It's functional aimed at zero maintenance. What I find weird is that the back "garden" has signs of life and it looks like they entertain there quite a bit, but the front is just a great void - completely wasted space. There's quite a lot of gravelled gardens around here but people usually do something with it - large upright stones, dwarf conifers, railway sleepers, water features, etc I've seen one go for a Zen/Buddhist look. All low maintenance but at least something to break up the pebbly vista.
At least there’s water-permeable gravel over just slabs of concrete I suppose…
It's almost always over a permeable membrane to keep the weeds out.
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It’s baffling isn’t it?! It looks like a decent sized space but it would be so depressing to sit in!
It's functional aimed at zero maintenance. What I find weird is that the back "garden" has signs of life and it looks like they entertain there quite a bit, but the front is just a great void - completely wasted space. There's quite a lot of gravelled gardens around here but people usually do something with it - large upright stones, dwarf conifers, railway sleepers, water features, etc I've seen one go for a Zen/Buddhist look. All low maintenance but at least something to break up the pebbly vista.
It's almost always over a permeable membrane to keep the weeds out.