Project story

Saratoga Woods

Modern Front Garden with Wall Fountain and Deck

Hardscape
Budget Friendly

A front yard of broad stepping pavers and yellow kangaroo paw, a wall fountain by the house and a deck under a covered patio.

The Garden

Clean lines, soft planting

Wide concrete pavers step through a lawn to a yellow front door, edged with low path lights and silver-gray groundcover. Around the house, a wall fountain, lavender and a long wood deck repeat the same crisp lines, with plants to soften them.

Chapter 1 · The Water Feature

A wall fountain beside the house

Slim jets of water spill from a spouted wall into a long trough set against the house, with lavender and salvia growing right up to it. The fountain adds a calm sound and a bright detail beside the front lawn.

Several thin jets of water falling from a spouted wall into a long concrete trough against a white house, with lavender and gravel in front.

Tall purple salvia and lavender in front of a white board-and-batten house with a black-framed window and a wall fountain trough below it.

Chapter 2 · The Deck

A deck beneath a modern cover

A dark covered patio opens onto a wide wood deck with low steps down to the lawn. Along the side of the house the deck narrows into a walkway under string lights, past a tall wood fence and young shrubs.

Wide wood deck with low steps in front of a dark steel covered patio with a dining table, and green lawn in front, with a corner of the yard visible at right.

Narrow wood deck walkway running along a white house beside a tall horizontal-slat wood fence, with string lights overhead and shrubs along the fence.

Covered patio with a dining table opening onto a wood deck with steps, bright green lawn in the foreground.

Chapter 3 · The Planting

Low planting at the front

Silver groundcover, succulents with purple blooms and river rock fill the front beds, with the house and a bright lawn behind. The mix stays low so the clean lines of the house stay in view.