There is most likely not one home owner anywhere in the world who doesn’t want their home to be lovely and welcoming inside and out. Somehow no matter how beautiful and up to date your furnishings and interior spaces may be, there is not much of that reflected to the casual stranger’s first arrival at your door. A welcoming approach to home is important for curb appeal as well as enhancing your lifestyle. The entry landscaping in front of this lovely home is nicely maintained, but is it welcoming? Imagine what a garden pond would do to completely alter this particular approach to home.

Besides the house itself, the prettiest thing in this particular front yard is that fence. It does have the value gained from two large trees for shade relief. The property is flat and so is the sidewalk. So what if we tear it all out but those two wonderful trees and the fence? A little makeover magic is definitely in order and instead of having to mow and water that lawn, why not some waterfalls and a gorgeous garden pond bordered by a sweeping paver walk.

Well that changes everything! Instead of the fence being the most welcoming approach to this home, a waterscaped front yard steals the show. It’s amazing what a little water and some paving stones can do to completely alter your entire house. For these homeowners, their great looking house is now as stylish from the curb as it is within. The palm trees, newly installed near the front door are far more suited to the building’s architecture than those sun starved plants that were there before ever hoped to be. Not only that, but building the garden pond allowed for the change in elevation this flat yard needed for a waterfalls feature.

There’s that lovely fence again and the answer to creating natural looking waterfalls on a pancake flat piece of ground. As you can see, buy building a garden pond into your landscaping, any home can be on the waterfront. The front yard is now very low maintenance. Biologically correct natural ponds will take care of themselves for the most part. Imagine never having to mow that front lawn again! No one’s grass could hold a candle to this type of curb appeal. It’s just lays there looking green and demanding a lot of attention.

How do you find such a gorgeous approach to home? It helps a great deal to enlist a really artistic landscape designer. They can find miracles in the most mundane places. Unless you have a cliff in your front yard, you wouldn’t want to build a really bid waterfalls, especially when you started out without any grade change at all. The purpose of landscaping is to frame a home, not to hide it from view and for this particular piece of property, they have discovered the magic that only a natural garden pond could impart.