6 creative garden ideas to personalise your portable home

The exterior of your home plays a crucial role in setting the ambiance and character of your living space.

While most transportable homes share a square or rectangular design, it’s the exterior enhancements that truly make your house a unique and inviting haven. After all, your home’s exterior is the first impression for you and your guests, and for those of us in New Zealand, spending time in the great outdoors is what we do. If you’re awaiting the delivery of a transportable home, there are plenty of ways to start planning for the transformation of its surroundings. Remember, it’s the exterior touches that turn a house into a home.

Here are six fantastic ideas to help you establish a welcoming and well-organized outdoor space:

Preserve the Natural Landscape

When transporting homes, large trucks are typically involved in the delivery process. To ensure a smooth delivery, it’s wise to avoid any excavation work before the home arrives. Trucks fare much better on grass than on muddy or stony terrain. Grass provides better traction and stability, making it the ideal surface for home delivery. Once your home is in place, you can then plan your lawn to suit your preferences.

Pathways to add the final touch.

Footpaths and driveways are often left as a final touch but tackling them earlier in your project can help define garden borders and lawn outlines, facilitating the overall completion. You can temporarily install timber borders and use gravel for your footpaths and driveways until you are ready for more permanent materials like concrete, cobblestones, or bitumen.

A variety of concrete driveway options, including exposed aggregate, coloured concrete, and plain concrete, are available to add convenience and provide the finishing touches to your home.

Incorporate Practical Features

Practical features can greatly enhance your outdoor space. Decks and pergolas, for instance, seamlessly connect your indoor and outdoor areas, creating a welcoming environment for outdoor gatherings and barbecues. When building your home, consider adding a deck to maximize your home’s layout. Ezyline offers deck options that can be customized to suit your needs.

Fast-Track Privacy Solutions

Established trees and bushes offer excellent privacy, starting from scratch can mean waiting for a decade before they provide the desired effect. Instead, consider fast-growing trees that are renowned for creating privacy:

• Certain bamboo species grow exceptionally quickly, forming an effective privacy screen.
• Lilly pilly serves as a dense hedge and ranks among the speedier-growing hedge options.
• Pittosporum, a medium to fast-growing bush, can reach heights of up to 3 meters, creating a lush green barrier when planted in abundance. If budget allows, you can opt for larger, more mature trees. Alternatively, strategically plant slower-growing trees alongside the faster-growers, removing the latter once the former are more established.

Fencing Done Right for Aesthetic Impact

Quality fencing is an investment that should not be overlooked. An unkempt fence can detract from the overall appearance of your home. Depending on your needs, you must decide between ensuring the safety of pets and children or choosing a more cost-effective option like planting a hedge. Common fence heights range from 1 to 1.2 meters, with some reaching up to approximately 1.8 meters for a paling fence. A rough sawn paling fence is typically the most budget-friendly and straightforward option for privacy and security. However, if aesthetics takes precedence over these factors, a post and rail fence may offer a more visually appealing alternative.

Illuminate Your Outdoors

Outdoor lighting has the power to entirely transform the ambiance of your outdoor space. Various lighting options are available, from convenient stick-in-the-ground solar lights to built-in deck lights or playful festival lights suspended over the deck. Consider where you intend to spend your time and which areas of the outdoors you wish to illuminate.

We hope these ideas provide you with inspiration and guidance to transform your outdoor area into a delightful sanctuary, perfect for you and your friends to enjoy while giving your home the appearance of a grand mansion. Have fun with your outdoor project!

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