Setting up your driveway and walkways so that they take up a smallest amount of room yet still give a strong sufficient surface for the traffic they will bear, calls for careful thinking. The well-designed residence and grounds have the garage close up to the house and next to the street. The garage located way in back of the home is a hangover from horse-and-buggy days when the steady had to be distant from the house.

Today when the greater part of home owners have cars, the room can be saved by means of a garage path that also serves as the house path, or feeds into a small house walk. But even if the driveway can be a short one, map for off-street parking— have your driveway at least 20 feet from the road.

The majority home driveways break down below heavy service trucks and traffic since the soil under the driveway is soaked. Adequate drainage for wet spots, therefore, is a essential.

High-quality driveway equipment are stable, and should not get washed away by storms or shovelled up with snowfall. If, though, the driveway must be long and does form a vital feature of your landscaping, a stable material may have to be passed up in favor of one like gravel or crushed rock, which will mix together better with the environment.

Well-designed walks with efficient edgings, steps which seem to be-long where they are located, and fascinating little paths that lead you deeper into the garden, can do a lot to get better your grounds. You can barely lay too much stress on your selection of material.

Concrete paths and steps, for instance, while often just the right thing; can form too prickly a contrast with the nearby turf and planting. Informal walks of wood butts (possibly slices of telephone poles), flagstones, or tanbark may be much more appropriate. Colonial houses are traditionally set off by brick; contemporary houses favour wood; miniature houses appear to call for flags.

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