Hello - hope someone can help as we're getting our garden landscaped and external steps refashioned but really stuck for ideas.
Our house is on a hill where the back garden slopes upwards. House has 3 floors with a set of horrible external concrete steps leading from the driveway to the front door which opens into the main part of the house which on the upper ground floor. The garage is on the lower ground floor and directly accessible from the driveway. There are also some internal stairs leading from inside the garage on the lower ground floor up to the upper ground floor.
We then have a set of fewer, shallower steps that are used to access the back garden from the side of the driveway. The back garden is higher than the driveway iyswim. The main part of the house (upper ground floor) can then be accessed via the rear patio doors from the back garden. So often these rear stairs are used by our more elderly visitors to enter the house. These steps currently cut across the garden between the patio and lawn which looks really odd as you can't step straight onto the grass from the patio.
We are now having the garden landscaped and will be levelling the lawn and adding a new patio that will allow us to step straight onto the lawn from the patio. I still want to make the rear patio doors as accessible as possible though for elderly visitors and children, so we will need to refashion the steps that would be used to access the back garden from the driveway.
I'm thinking a ramp would just look really odd and we should just go for a greater number of wider and shallower steps that wrap around the outside edge of the garden.....but then that is sooo many steps so I am really worried about getting it wrong. Any ideas as to what we could do??? Thanks!