Any budding garden designers on here. Help!

[Fortunatepiggy]

This is our garden it's small but wide with an L shaped patio a large summer house at the bottom. What can I do to make it look better? I'm going to jetwash patio but would decking look better? Should I have more grass and less patio?

Any advice gratefully received

Hi, I'm no expert, but I would definitely jetwash the patio a clear the edge between the lawn and patio.
I'd also put scentedclimbers on the fence, jasmine, climbing rose?
The hydrangeas look a bit isolated, could you dig up a bed between them, or widen the existing bed? I'd then plant somethings for height, but wafting, such as tall grasses, verbena or Knautia.
In the Autumn I'd trim back some of the overshadowing greenery.

Just looked at photos again. Could you put a screen, ( planted with a climber) along the side of the shed, thus making the seating area more defined and courtyard like.
On the patio next to the house the planters could be larger and have your palms in them, framing the French doors.
You've obviously got young children, but a dribbling recycling water feature would be nice on either paved area.

To 'look nice' you need better grass (mowed, edged) and more flowers. But that may not suit how you use the garden if you have smallish kids. If it were my garden I'd get rid of the overhanging evergreen stuff by the summerhouse and put a wide flower border all the way round the patio with a couple of ways though to the grass. Flower beds look best when full of stuff and decency wide - 1m or so.