Designing a Landscape that Will be Loved Time After Time

When people find their forever home, there’s often a sense of joy and ease. However, after a while, you will come to discover that your forever home requires a lifetime of love through various maintenance jobs and upgrades. When you build or design your forever home, consider the variables that will undoubtedly impact the way you live in your house: life as parents, empty nesters, and grandparents. 

 

Ideally, when you find your forever home, you will stay there for the rest of your life and will need to design a look that is timeless and prone to a lifetime of love and care. Specifically, your forever home will most certainly need updates to its curb appeal and landscape every so often. You will want to create your beautiful landscape in the front and maintain a healthy backyard. 

 

Considering the already majestic landscaping of northern Nevada, however, your forever home may already have timeless elements that will never go out of style. The tricky part, then, may come when deciding on your landscaping design.

 

Creating a Timeless Landscape

To truly create a landscape that has you falling in love over and over again, get inspired. For the most modern yet timeless landscape ideas, visit Pinterest, read magazines, or watch HGTV. 

 

A classic landscape design that presents strong curb appeal and creates a timeless look is one that is polished, fresh, and clean. Here’s what that may look like: well-hydrated greenery with fair trimmed hedges lined evenly in a row or a simple color palette that includes intentionally chosen plants and flowers. Your landscape will be timeless when it is purposefully designed so that each element has a specific place it belongs within your front yard. 

 

When choosing flowers and trees, for instance, think about colors and design. Consider how each variety will look once it grows into the landscape. Try creating clean-cut lines that will provide strong curb appeal to your home. The most timeless landscape architectures display straight, simple rows against your home will create a visually appealing landscape. 

 

Before you purchase plants and trees for your front yard, designate specific areas for where you will plant them. When everything is organized into its own space, the landscape looks much cleaner and organized. There aren’t plants and trees mashed together into one tight space, and weeds aren’t growing all over the place. This reduces clutter and presents your home in a much more open light. 

 

Think About Backyard Living Space

Beside the front landscape (which is arguably one of the most critical aspects of your forever home), think about a landscaping project that will improve your backyard. Consider your natural outdoor space as a blank canvas. 

 

It is often quite helpful if you close your eyes and imagine the primary purpose of the backyard. Will your children have a playset and run around through the grass? Will you install a fence for your dogs? Will you craft a cozy and inviting living space to host friends and family? 

 

Perhaps you want your outdoor space to be versatile and a place for multi-purposes. 

 

When designing an outdoor living space that is timeless and well-loved, it is best to consider potted plants and shrubbery that best fit the space — that is, elements that provide privacy and boundaries. 

 

For an ethereal garden feel, for example, use climbing vines against trellises and potted plants to enhance retaining walls. For a more cozy feel, try dogwood or boxwood trees planted along the perimeter of your backyard to separate your space from your neighbor’s. If you have a swimming pool, maybe plants that thrive in water and oasis-like atmospheres will suffice.

 

Your backyard will also be highly used, especially if you enjoy the outdoors and the smell of BBQ in the summer. Outdoor space may be one large open breath of fresh air with plenty of running space and a seating area with string lights and a fire pit. 

 

Don’t limit yourself to specific landscape designs or features. The ideas are endless.