Taunton's Front Yard Idea Book: How to Create a Welcoming Entry and Expand Your

Taunton's Idea Books

by Jeni Webber, Lee Anne White (Photographer)

Front yards make strong first impressions. They set the mood when we come home and greet guests coming for a visit. They can give a home a friendly face, create a personal sense of place, and bring life to a neighborhood. But most front yards are underutilized. Many are marred by patchy lawns and overgrown foundation plantings, while in some communities, front yards all look alike. Landscape architect Jeni Webber encourages homeowners to think creatively about their front yards. In Taunton's Front Yard Idea Book, she provides ingenious ideas for expanding a home's outdoor living area. The book is both inspirational and practical, with hundreds of beautiful photographs, numerous design tips, and ideas for entries, paths, driveways, lighting, and plants.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 10, 2002

Reviews

[John]

Very nice coffee table book. None of it is very useful unless you are very well off. All the ideas are for houses that don't look anything like mine. But if you are wealthy maybe even extremely wealthy and have a four thousand square foot house on at least an acre of land, then you may be able to show some of these ideas to your landscape team so they can do what you want.

[Mlg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too many formal front yards for my taste. A bit dated.

[Pam · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is pretty good not perfect. It shows many different style homes and the wonderful colored photography and text provides plenty of ideas and details to help the homeowner improve their front yard. The book covers all sorts of details including courtyards, paving, gardens appropriate for various architectural styles, corner lots etc. My only compliant is that the ideas very rather common place and the editors seemed a bit staid in their approach.

[Melanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A ton of pictures to inspire you. Really deals with the landscape aspects of the yard and not so much with the appearance of the home from the front yard.

[Donna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of pictures