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John Rawstron
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I've attached a photo. The path front of picture is going. The garden is reasonably long and narrow (12ft wide). I want it to go House, Patio, Lawn, Garden area, some flowers maybe one or two trees then the area in the picture. I want it tidy, flat and with a small shed on it. It's about 10ft from front to back and as said 12 ft wide.
I can't do much with the wall on the left as it's next doors so I'm going to patch it up.
All I can think of doing is digging about 2 ft in front of it through the lawn, breaking up the path, throwing the path concrete in the hole in the picture then building a wall across and around and refilling it with conrete or paving it.
Wondered if anybody had any ideas that were a little less labour intensive!
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Hi John. I think your idea is the right one - a couple of thoughts. If you put the shed across the front of the space that will mean less of a barrier to build and you could plant climbers to grow over and disguise it as well. That would also give you an area behind the shed - along the rear fence - to store other stuff like pots and maybe a compost bin etc, and also give you a little sheltered spot for young plants. It means you could simply have a small gate to provide access and to keep that area screened off from the rest of the garden. The shed would sit on some of the existing path and concrete and the bits you dig up will be used for levelling and filling the bare areas. Don't think there's any way of avoiding a bit of hard graft but at least you wouldn't need to build another wall along the front. I did a similar sort of thing last summer as the shed needed moving so that I could open up the fenced in garden. I'll see if I have a pic later to give you an idea.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...