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A measured plan belongs on floor plan. This page needs the yards you can already see.

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Arrival style

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What the arrival must keep

Keep the drive

The apron stays. The garden weaves around it

Keep the property edges

Street, side, and rear lines stay the frame

Keep the entries

The front door and the gates stay where they are

Arrival

Arrival

Arrival

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Front, side, and rear are a single walk from the street

Front, side, and rear are one arrival sequence. A guest should be able to read the walk from the curb, along the side, and into the back without a break in the story. The drive and the property edges stay, so the apron and the lot lines are the frame.

One sequence. Drive and property edges stay.

Seven pictures of one arrival

The three sides, the drive, the edges, the side gate, the shared material, how a guest reads the walk, and a second planting each need a picture. Drop a file into the matching slot and the block fills.

  • Arrival

    Three sides, one arrival

    The front introduces the door. The side is the passage. The rear is where people stay.

  • Arrival

    The drive holds its place

    The apron stays. The garden weaves around it.

  • Arrival

    Property edges are the frame

    Street, side, and rear lines stay. The sequence does not widen the lot.

  • Arrival

    The side is not skipped

    A narrow side, even if it is only a gate, is still part of the walk.

  • Arrival

    One material around the corner

    The walk should still look like one route when it turns.

  • Arrival

    A guest can tell where to go

    Someone arriving for the first time should know which way to continue.

  • Arrival

    A second planting of the same route

    Try another gate or hedge without moving the drive.

Sequence

Three sides, one arrival

The front yard introduces the door. The side yard is the passage, often narrow and easy to forget. The rear yard is where people stay. Designed apart, they contradict each other. As one arrival sequence they share a material, a gate, and a reason to keep walking.

Drive

The drive holds its place in the sequence

The drive stays. You do not erase the apron to grow a front garden, and you do not swing a new court through the side yard because the rear wants a turnaround. Parking geometry belongs on the driveway page. Here the drive is a fixed beat in the arrival.

Edges

Property edges are the frame of the walk

Property edges stay: the front line at the street, the side line beside the neighbor, the rear line at the back. Planting and gates sit inside them. The sequence does not widen the lot to make the side passage comfortable.

One yard, three sides

  • One arrival sequence

    Front, side, and rear are read as a single walk, not three unrelated projects.

  • Drive stays

    The apron and the path of the cars remain. The garden weaves around them.

  • Property edges stay

    Street, side, and rear lines are the limits of every planting decision.

  • Side passage

    The narrow side is part of the sequence, even when it is only a gate and a walk.

  • Shared material

    The walk should still look like one route when it turns the corner.

  • Guest legibility

    Someone arriving for the first time should know which way to continue.

Enter from the street and keep walking

  1. 1. Photograph the route

    Front, side, and rear, in the order a guest meets them. One pretty rear photo is not the sequence.

  2. 2. Hold drive and edges

    The drive and the property edges stay. Mark them before you restyle planting or gates.

  3. 3. Check the handoff

    At each corner, the next side should still be obvious. If the side yard disappears, the sequence broke.

The sequence

Front, side, and rear are one walk from the street

Yard design treats the lot as a single walk: arrival at the street, the side passage, and the rear. Drive, entries, and property edges stay. It is the page you open when a backyard-only plan would strand the front, or when the side gate is the real problem.

The sequence needs a width. A side yard that cannot take a person and a bin is not a connection. It is a gap. Do not decorate it as a garden room if it is a service run. Say which it is.

Landscape design is paths and levels as a composition around the footprint. The yard page is more domestic: how this household comes home. Use the plainer name when that is the question.

Read the page from four sides

  • The arrival

    Street, drive, and front door are the first sentence. The rear is the last.

  • The side

    Give it a job: service or garden. A jobless side fills with leftovers.

  • The edges

    Property lines stay. Gates are how you cross them.

  • The continuity

    One material or one edge should carry the walk, so the lot reads as one place.

Where this page stops

The links below are the neighboring jobs. Each one keeps a promise this page does not make.

  • Backyard starts at the back door only. Use it when the front is not in the brief.

  • Driveway is the car’s part of the arrival. The yard is the person’s walk beside it.

  • Landscape is the more formal drawing of paths and grade around the footprint.

Arrival questions

The walk a guest actually takes, the drive they pass, and the edges of the lot.

Do I need a photo of every side?

Yes. Front, side, and rear are one arrival sequence. A single glamour shot of the back cannot stand in for the walk from the street.

Can the drive move to widen the front garden?

No. The drive stays on this page. If the approach and the parking count are the real problem, use the driveway page.

What are the property edges?

The lines of the lot: street, sides, and rear. They stay. Planting, gates, and walks sit inside them.

Is the backyard page a shorter version of this?

No. The backyard page is the rear yard tied to the back door, and the slope stays. This page refuses to design the rear without the front and the side.

What if the side yard is only a gate?

Then the sequence includes that gate. Do not skip it. The handoff from front to rear still has to be readable.

Can the three sides be one result?

Yes, as one arrival. Front, side, and rear stay in the same walk. A single rear photo is not the sequence.

Can the drive be read from these photos?

Yes. The photographs supply the drive, the entries, and the property edges. The plan does not erase the apron to widen a garden.

Photograph the route a guest takes

Start at the street, pass the drive, turn the side, and arrive at the back. The property edges should be visible enough to trust.