{"id":435,"date":"2012-05-23T19:33:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T23:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/?p=435"},"modified":"2013-09-13T17:58:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T21:58:03","slug":"front-yard-daydreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2012\/05\/23\/front-yard-daydreams\/","title":{"rendered":"front yard daydreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spend a lot of time daydreaming what I’d like to do with certain problem areas around our house. It tides me over while we’re in a position that we can’t really do anything, heh.<\/p>\n

One problem area: We live on a corner lot. Apparently, people seem to think that means that we are totally fine with them cutting off the corner and walking right through our yard. This drives me nuts. I feel like it’s rude and it makes me uncomfortable that they walk so close to our house. (How easy would it be to grab something off the carport?) Also, I worry a little that by letting someone on our property and not doing anything to stop it might invite a potential lawsuit later if they should injure themselves somehow and sue me. Yay, America and our court system. I’m sure that isn’t a very common scenario, but I’ve also been around enough people who have found themselves at the wrong end of a lawsuit to know that fighting something like that is tedious and expensive.<\/p>\n

And just to illustrate, I added a blue line to approximate where people are generally cutting across:
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Doesn’t it look nice and inviting to cut across?
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And by the way, 99% of the people cutting across the property are adults. I actually have only once seen kids cut across. So they are very definitely people who should know better!<\/p>\n

I have been brainstorming about putting up a fence to take care of this problem. A fence would also give me some peace of mind about making it more difficult for toddlers to run into the street. I have gone back and forth, and have decided that a fence along the shorter side would be cheaper and still look nice. Here is what I’m talking about:<\/p>\n

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Here are my thoughts about what we should do…<\/p>\n

First off, I’d like to remove the two random bushes. I don’t know if they can be moved to elsewhere in our yard, or if we should rehome them. I’ll have to look up what kind of bushes they are. :-) On the left side of the picture, you’ll see some gorgeous azalea bushes. I think they’re beautiful, but they are not in a good spot in our yard. It’s very difficult (read: impossible) to see if anyone is coming when you are backing out of our driveway. Also, if a car parks behind them, I can’t see the car at all from the house or the driveway – which makes me nervous and a safety hazard in my opinion. So transplanting the azaleas is something that needs to happen regardless.<\/p>\n

Once the bushes are gone, I’d like to put a fence along the road and up our property a bit to made a corner. (I need to research setback laws for our county.) I am leaning towards a white ranch fence, or perhaps a split-rail. Something like these:
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(Images from here<\/a> and here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

From the very brief pricing I have done, they would be about the same price for the 100ft. length (no gates) we’re talking about. I also have visions of a pretty flowering climbing vine along the fence, or just flowers, to make it appealing to the eye. Of course, I know nothing about plants so I’ll have to talk to someone about that. :-)<\/p>\n

So what do you think? Do you prefer ranch rail or split rail? (Picket fence would also work, but it seems a lot more expensive.) What flowering vine would look nice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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