Luxury Home Front Garden

This beautiful new home in Harpenden created the opportunity for an equally stunning new resin drive, limestone paths and colourful low maintenance planting.

The paving colours of this re-designed front garden in Harpenden echo the Portland Stone features of this stunning newly built home.

Style

Contemporary Front Garden

Location

Harpenden

Features

Resin Bound Drive, Boundary Wall, Limestone Paving

Luxury New Build Home in Harpenden with new boundary wall with pier caps and granite sett granite path
Front garden for a new build home with limestone with colourful planting for sunshine and small garden tree
Resin bound drive with granite setts edging and granite sett path with limestone paving and wide step up to front door with Olive trees in pots
Limestone paving path and granite setts path with Pittosporum balls and other colourful evergreen planting
Re-designed front garden in Harpenden with granite sett path and new brick boundary wall with pier caps
Limestone paving to luxury home entrance with colourful low maintenance planting and yellow granite sett edging
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The Story Behind the Garden

This new home was re-built in the centre of Harpenden replacing a smaller property. Our clients wanted to create an equally beautiful driveway and front garden as the setting for the house.

The pale natural stone of the beautiful acid etched Beige Limestone and pier caps was designed to connect with the Portland Stone features of the house and contrast with the dramatic red brick of the house and boundary wall.

The design included a new resin bound gravel drive in natural multi-tonal colours to reflect informal loose gravel but with much easier maintenance. Greater enclosure for the property was created on the boundaries using continuous cedar slats on one side and instant impact hedging on the other side. 

A new boundary wall was created with both a driveway and pedestrian entrance, each featuring  beautiful textured yellow granite setts to enclosing resin bound gravel and limestone paving. 

A beautiful limestone and granite sett path is framed with structural evergreen planting alongside nectar colourful nectar rich planting. A beautiful Crepe Myrtle tree creates a stunning focal point for the re-designed front garden.

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Transformation Captured in Three Moments

These three steps show the transformation of a front garden from a building site, through the design stage and finally to the completed garden.

Rothamsted Avenue Harpenden Front Garden Before Re-design with scaffolding and brick debris
Before
3D visualisation of newly designed front garden with red brick house, limestone paving and evergreen low maintenance planting
3D Model
Limestone paving to luxury home entrance with colourful low maintenance planting and yellow granite sett edging
After

The challenge with this front garden in Harpenden was to ensure that the hard landscaping and planting reflected the scale and drama of the home. The space for the front garden was not large and yet the drive needed to accomodate at least two cars as well as generous paths to the house from the drive and from the smaller entrance on the footpath. Each element, drive, paths and planting were generous and well balanced which is what makes this such a well balanced garden design.

The architect for the house had created beautiful accents to the red brick using pale Portland Stone and our materials choices, using beautiful acid etched pale beige limestone and gently tumbled yellow granite setts echo the features of the house beautifully.

Designer’s Insight

Our front garden is a delight to the neighbourhood and it’s not unusal to find people stopping to take a look at the plants or asking us what they are! We wanted something that was beautiful and low maintenance and we certainly have that with the drive, paving and beautiful planting. We are thrilled with the result.

Jackie – Harpenden

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