Entryway Landscaping Designs with pizzazz

The whole idea of Entryway Landscaping is to give the front of your house more pizzazz or presence and to make a connection between the outside and the inside. The front entry door and the spaces connected to it play an important role in setting the stage for the success of the entire house. It begins to establish your home’s personality and suggests how the rest of the house should be.

In landscaping for front door entrances, you are trying to achieve at least three objectives. For instance, you want to:
• Draw the viewer's eye from the street to the front door entrance
• Create an environment that says welcome
• Match the entryway planting to your home’s style and your personal taste

1. One challenge in landscaping for front entryways is that you want the design to blend in reasonably well with the overall landscape design, while still standing out enough to provide a focal point. In landscape design terminology, "focal points" force the viewer’s perspective to a central point. One way to focus attention on the front entryway is to provide an attractive Stone path leading up to it. Stones come in various shades of gray which may have tints of blue, green, tan, brown, rust, and plum mixed with the gray. You can and maybe should individually select the stones to insure quality and the desired color range.

2. As these paths lead to your front door, it is important that they are not only beautiful, but that the entrance to your home finishes their grand plan on arrival. Painting your entry door will help do that and should bring the finishes of the house together. Consideration for the brick, siding, soffit, facia and roof colours should all play a role in choosing the best colour. The owners of the house should be welcomed into their home through a space designed to greet them, to acknowledge them, and to recognize them as the reason it exists. It should make your house more visually appealing and say welcome.

3. Of course, what landscaping you install on the way to your front entryway will depend, in part, on what you have to work with. For instance, if your front entryway is at the top of a slope you may wish to use a ground cover instead of grass, to minimize maintenance. To give you another example, if you have a large open porch for your front entryway, you may wish to make liberal use of containers of flowers on the porch steps. A popular way is to line the sides of the walk way with flowers or small shrubs like boxwood. Gardening is a most important facet of your landscaping design because plants and flowers bring an enhanced and pleasing look to any area.

Numerous entryway landscaping designs and styles have been applied by people and countless other ideas exist in the minds of homeowners that would give an impressive shape and feel to their front yards. Choosing a front entry design which demonstrates the homeowner’s style will make this space in the front yard both usable and enjoyable. When you combine the landscaping (plant life) and hardscaping (walkways, steps, the porch) to create this area of transition and it's done right, the result is amazing.

Entryway Landscaping “by the yard”