Horrible garden, great location

[Elfontheedge]

I can see past the awful interior, we can fix that with our nice furniture and re-decorating. I’m really struggling with the garden though, it’s just so far from the grassy, planty, pretty space for the kids to build dens etc. the owners ripped up perfectly good lawn for that not that long ago. I could cry!
everything else ticks the boxes in terms of location, off road parking, quiet road.

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I think they have done the best you could hope for with that garden. As PPs, have said, the slope means the garden would have had to be terraced and could never be the type of garden you are looking for.

You could turn the pub shed into a Wendy house, put down some safety tiles and get some play equipment. A swing and a slide down to the Wendy house maybe... Or a fireman's pole. Paint hopscotch on the tiles, build a sandpit. Teens will love having an outdoor den, hot tub and barbecue. There is plenty of scope for container courtyard gardening. Use plants and trellis to make secret garden rooms, great for hide and seek. Come and join the gardening board for inspiration.

£10k to sort out the garden - and a fair bit of time. Have you got both?

The garden of the next door house looks to be much the same size and a fairly usable space for kids, though granted the levels are an issue with this one.

What's under the slabs - sand?👍 or cement -a Nono

@Chevyimpala67 😂😂😂 yes bet that hot tub seen some action.

To my mind garden is least of the problems, all that silver😎, but to be honest you couldn't really kick a football about in that garden anyway and it's a very short window when kids want to play in the garden, they grow up very quickly and British weather not conducive to it for vast periods of the years. On the other hand that summer house could be turned into games room/den/playroom and lots of large planters/raised beds could soften the edges. When all said and done to quote Kirsty 'location, location, location' 😀

Realistically the playing in the garden years are very short. By the time they're in secondary it's over.
My DC are students, and still love the garden! Slopes are fine. For me, that garden is awful. Where's the nature!

Wow. I’ll never understand the British obsession with gardens.
Everyone seems to think they they ‘need’ them but you only have few months of summer (during which it chucks it down anyway half the time). I’ve never seen children playing in any of the leafy wonderlands of my neighbours, they all go to the nearby park.
Dogs either, no running around in the garden, all to picturesque ‘dog walking’ spots.
The only things they do is BBQ which would be perfectly served by the above.

Your kids might prefer blanket forts to gardens anyway.

Also.. I face the gardens in my home office, that’s how I know ;)

God, that's fugly.

Wrong thread

I really thought the lounge was wrapped in foil for a brief moment.

Our DC play in the garden the whole time. My youngest DD is just outside finding little insect habitats and 'playing with the ants.' They're out there in all weathers. I totally understand why you want some green space OP.

That house has been Hinched to within an inch of its shiny, synthetic grey life. It's a bit like the Dolly Parton line about costing a lot of money to look this cheap. Except it probably didn't. God knows, it's bloody awful is what

That’s got to be the worst decor I’ve ever seen in a house. It’s absolutely tasteless. If you buy it for the space at least knock lots of money off the price to pay for all the redecoration/landscaping

They've gone big for grey and silver in there!
You could make the lower part of the garden more child friendly. Huge shed takes up loads of room.
It's never going to be a good space for active play - it's too small. But depending on the age of your kids you could have a playhouse and sandpit or if older something like a hammock or slack line. It's a more chilling out kind of area.

It could be ok as others have said with some nice pots etc, the kids don't really need grass to play on but only you really know if it's a deal breaker! (That interior is truly horrific)

Wow, they like shiny grey. I think the garden is liveable with if you like the location. You can work out what to do with it, when in.

I wouldn't but I don't think it's disastrous. You could make it look a lot nicer with a few pot plants. More of a 'terrace' than a garden and similar to what a of friends in London have.
It would be a no-no if you have kids that want to run around in the garden though. Back to the drawing board in that case.

BTW I think the house itself is entirely ok despite the dreadful decor.

The inside decor could be changed. It seems fairly spacious for that style of house. The garden is horrific though. Who tiles A garden with bsthroom type tiles.

This is the house that taste died in

I like it , looks spacious, well kept and practical layout with a family - but then I don't have kids at home- so the garden doesn't bother me- but can see it's not the best with kids

but most of that that grey would have to go .

I'd have the goal to pull up the slabs and plant grass....But meanwhile its workable. They can use chalk to draw 9n the slabs, a water table, sandpit, potted plants. Higher fences maybe

You could perhaps get some of the slabs around the edge taken up and the space filled with top soil. Then plant with roses, cottage garden plants, striking foliage- whatever look you need. I think the grey slabs would start to be less noticeable and it would soften the look of the white walls.

Im confused as to what it is. That looks like a roof terrace to me, not a garden

I would fill a basket with different Zoflora scented products, the sellers will probably take a liking to you and knock some money off