Inspiring Front Yard Makeovers ( Befor & Aftter) Part II

[Pearl]

[center] Inspiring Front Yard Makeovers[/center]

Gain curb appeal and outdoor living space with fresh ideas for your porch, patio, and garden


Southwest courtyard, inside

Hidden from the street behind the sheltering walls is a comfortable space for relaxing and entertaining alfresco.

It's ample enough for two separate seating areas plus a dining space. Plant-filled raised beds add texture, while furnishings and accessories provide pops of color.

[Pearl]

Dream yard (before)

Before the makeover, this family’s only outdoor space was a lifeless rectangular parking pad of concrete, gravel, and asphalt next to their busy street. There was no fence for privacy and no plants to soften the landscape.



Dream yard (after)

Now it’s a courtyard for summer dining and entertaining. Fencing across the back of the driveway creates a private 33- by 25-foot outdoor room paved with Pennsylvania bluestone.

Greenery and a garden shed creates a sheltering screen.

[Pearl]

Aging garage (before)

This crumbling garage seemed to hold little promise for stylish live/work space.



Aging garage (after)

The remodel enlarged the building to include a bathroom, loft, and a small roof deck, so it can double as guest quarters.

It can also still function as a garage thanks to a set of glass-paneled Dutch doors opening on the plywood-paneled office side. [/size]

[Pearl]

Shed revival (before)

Evan Sagerman and Marci Riseman found space for this guest suite and entertaining area in an unlikely place: a tiny, ramshackle shed in the backyard of their San Francisco Victorian home.



Shed revival (after)

[ The makeover became an exercise in preservation and space planning. The interior of the shed has a clean, open layout, inspired by boat cabins.

[Pearl]

Amazing cabin makeover (before)

Abandoned for six years, this Alaska cabin was a dump. Its previous owners had left behind moldy bags of clothes and thrown out their furniture in the yard. The porch had collapsed, the basement walls had rotted, and a hemlock tree was growing through the roof. Apart from the basement, the house measured only 740 square feet ― and the only access was by boat or by hiking down a half-mile trail.



Amazing Cabin Makeover (after)

After a monumental cleanup, the young homeowners ripped off the hazardous porch and re-plumbed the house. They took out walls and stripped the kitchen and bath down to the studs.

Western red cedar shingles replaced the rotting siding, and the front door was painted crimson. Now the revamped cabin makes the most of its small scale.

[James.Striker]

Beautiful.

[Pearl]

Beautiful.

Thanks dear