Colonial House Landscaping Ideas

Quick and Easy Transformation

• You can revamp the landscape of your colonial home in less than a day by changing the landscape yourself with simple elements that will have a dramatic effect on the exterior of your home. For example, create a winding, curvy path along the outside of your house and have it wrap all the way around. Fill the path with ebony wood chips for texture. Add larger boulders and petite shrubs and plants. This will instantly transform your home and you won't even need to hire a landscape architect.

Destination Point

• Creating a man-made pond in your front lawn immediately creates a destination point in your yard, changing it from pretty but functionless grass to a place where kids can play and adults can sit with a glass of wine. You'll need to hire an independent contractor to create a man-made pond, unless you're extremely handy. Once the pond is finished you can add a family of fish, line the edge of the pond with pretty rocks, and add a bench or a lawn fairy. Ideally, this pond would sit best beside a tree for natural shading in the summertime. Such a landscape choice is bold but doesn't clash with the classical exterior of your colonial home.

Quadrants

• A quadrant garden might seem like a bold and modern addition to a colonial home, but such a choice is actually quite classic and old fashioned. Basically you would section off a large portion of your yard or lawn and create a garden with four separate flower or vegetable beds, that together make a larger rectangle. In between each bed you'll need to install brick paving so that you can walk around the beds, creating a short, winding garden path. You can angle or shape the beds however you like to create a slightly more modern effect.