If you google "long+narrow+garden design" you'll find all sorts of ideas to make the garden seem wider using circles or diagonals with structures and/or plants to break up the direct line form house to bottom of the garden so you get an urge to explore. It also means you can hide work areas such as a potting bench, cold frame, compost heaps etc.
Here are a few:-
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Yes, should have said that when you acquire a new garden it's best to spend the first year watching to see what you have and want to keep and nurture. Just keep weeds and lawns under control and prune out any obvious dead, broken or leggy stems from shrubs and trees. Then, in autumn and winter you can dig up and transplant or pot up anything you want to save whilst doing major changes.
Note how the sun moves and where gets the best sun and most shade as that makes a different to what will grow well and also think about where you will site recycling and compost bins and a work area for storing tools and doing sowing and potting.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The ideas @Obelixx has are certainly quite interesting, would definitely make a great statement for a garden design. To echo the others, it would be best to get to know how your garden grows over the period of a year. Also think about what you want to get most out of the space and how you would like to use it.
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Here are a few:-
Note how the sun moves and where gets the best sun and most shade as that makes a different to what will grow well and also think about where you will site recycling and compost bins and a work area for storing tools and doing sowing and potting.