Front garden seating area

[BigWolfLittleWolf]

Is it doable or a bit weird?

DH thinks no one sits out in their front garden and it’ll look strange?

It’s not a huge sprawling garden.
It’s a very modest, ‘average’ sized garden, part of a terrace with a shortish fence.

We have decking with a border either side and behind and the fence in front then the pavement and I keep thinking a little chair and table will be nice there on the deck?

My DM has a bench under her window at the front and she doesn't really even have a garden, just a mono-blocked area straight onto the public area. It gets the sun there in the afternoon and all the little kids who lives nearby congregate on it which she loves. She sometimes sits on her door step for a natter with them. I would say go for it!

Under the window would have been my preferred choice for a table and chair as it’s furthest away from the pavement but my wheelie bins are there!
It’s the most aesthetically pleasing place for them as they are partially hidden by my window boxes and borders.

I just have this boring old decked area, virtually in the middle of the garden all bare with nothing going on.

I used to have a bench on my front garden. I never sat there as I have a large private garden but my cats would spend most of the summer on there. Sadly it got into too bad a condition to repair and it went down the dump last year. I don’t want to spend a lot to replace it but if I see a cheap one on market place I will get it just to keep my cats happy.

I have a small table and chairs in our front garden, it has a lovely view and is south facing, if people think its odd tough, i like it.
If its a nice place to sit out then do it

We’ve go a bench in the front garden under the window as it gets the morning sun which the back garden doesn’t. It’s got a nice view, I’ve put some pots with an acer, a bay and some flowers not to screen it completely but to draw the eye away a bit. There’s a hedge growing too.

Old house all the houses had benches in the front garden as they got the evening sun and little sun in back ga4dens. It was a quiet road.

Again most of them had some planting.

Over the past year quite a few of my neighbours have started using their front gardens. It's been nice to see neighbours sat around chatting to each other over the front fence/wall which most of us can't do in the back garden with higher fences. My DH thought it was a bit odd at first but I'm from an area in Ireland where it was pretty normal to use front gardens so it feels a bit more like home to me.