Softening Hard Surfaces with Landscaping

that this space is basically too tight with the shower in place, the two chairs, and there is a table there that would go between the two chairs. This very small table, it's just cramped. It does it makes no sense. But if we rem I can see that if we take the shower out, we can move the chairs over to this area right here, put the table there, and then everything will float. And then the shower we clean off the sidewalk. We could put right tuck it right in that corner right there as if the shower went the sidewalk went up to the shower on purpose. Let's play with some stuff and see if any of that works out. I like this idea. I love having the garden hose. It allows me to let my wife come out here and change things and make it the way it's actually going to be. I just like to be able to have it here to give a to get an idea. So when I'm talking with Frankie, I can say, "Hey, I want to make a semicircle. I want it to curve up and I want it to dive right into the front door." Just like just like that. And if I didn't like that, we can change the shape and we all are on the exact same page. Paint, you can't do that. All right, guys. I'm going to jump in here with another pro tip. And I've got to change things up because this pro tip makes me rethink my strategy. Here it is. A hard surface in landscaping should not go next to another hard surface if at all possible. And that's because you want the landscaping to soften things up. And when I mean hard surface next to hard surface, we don't want to put a concrete retaining wall next to a timber deck. That's a hard surface next to a hard surface because it creates this almost industrial feel. Even though it's landscaping, we need to use landscaping to soften the curvature of uh our spaces and to soften the feel of our spaces. So, we want this balance uh between different elements of our landscaping. And when you put a hard surface next to a hard surface, that tends to throw the balance out. Let's just show you an example of a soft surface next to a hard surface. If we look right down here, here we've got a house, a hard surface shrouded by plants and landscaping, soft surface. So, we're softening that up. Um, and I know that doesn't look very good, but it gives you the gist of what I'm talking about with a hard surface next to a hard surface and a soft surface next to a soft surface. Basically, long story short, guys, it means putting a deck here would break our cardinal rule. So, we've got to change this up…