Front Yard Landscaping & Curb Appeal

Landscaping To Enhance Curb Appeal

KG Landscape can increase your home's curb appeal with thoughtfully designed front yard landscaping, that provides interest all season long and helps make your home feel complete. 

We design and install front entry walkways, steps, walls and plantings that compliment your style. It feels great to be proud of the way your house looks and we want to help you get there!

Front Yard Landscape Design Inspiration

Well-designed landscaping can greatly improve the curb appeal of your home.  There is absolutely an art to creating curb appeal and making your house feel warm and welcoming from the outside.

Landscape design can complement the architecture of your home and should replicate its style in order to give your property a true sense of place.  Whether your home is modern, traditional, rustic or mid-century, our designers can create a wonderful plan for you.   

Take a look at our Front Yard Landscaping Photo Gallery for more examples of beautiful front yad landscaping   

Our designers use a variety of plants in very intentional ways to create wonderful front yard landscaping.  Plants can sometimes soften and break up corners with foliage and other times accentuate architectural lines into the landscape. It’s important to use plants with the right size, texture, flower color, and blooming period in order to add depth and season long interest to your landscape.

At KG Landscape, our landscape designers know how to create charming front yards with seasonal beauty and elegance.  It's the compounding factors within a thoughtfully curated landscape design, that work together to add character and curb appeal to your home!

Knowing where elements are needed and not needed allows front yard landscaping to flow nicely and prevents cluttering and over crowdedness.  Simplicity also helps  create low maintenance landscaping, which is often a priority.

Keeping things simple provides continuity and makes it easier to appreciate accents and focal point in the landscape.

The best Minneapolis landscape designers follow these principles of design and use design elements like plantings, walls, columns, and flower pots only for specific reason in different spaces.

Mixing up the shapes, textures, foliage, and flower colors helps create interest without sacrificing simplicity. Balancing variety and continuity enhances the flow and seasonal interest of your landscape.

Design Concept - Balance

The relationship of different sized elements that make up the landscape. Formal balance is when one side of the landscape is a near a mirror image of the other side, whereas informal balance is when each side of the landscape is similar in size and weight, but not exactly the same.

The diagram below shows examples to achieve balance in both formal and informal landscape design.

Plants are used in the landscape for specific purposes. A pot full of colorful annuals might be placed on either side of the main entrance to drawn attention to the front door. An ornamental tree might be used to screen or soften the look of a rigid corner or architectural feature.

Sequencing is important to provide a gradual transition from one section of the landscape to another. Using short, fine textured plants in the front row, medium textured plants in the center and taller or large leafed (courser texture) plants in the back row of a planting is an example of proper sequencing. This creates the visual flow and continuity we want in the landscape.

The ratio or proportion between the sizes of certain elements in the landscape.  Large homes should have larger scaled landscaping than smaller houses.  For examples, two story houses should use taller bushes and key plants than should be used for a rambler style homes to appropriately fit the scale of the house.

Landscaping to scale helps us make the visual transition between the lawn, shrubs, and trees in the landscape and the home itself. Correct scale makes the entire landscape feel more natural and comfortable to be in.  Getting the scale right will ensure the landscaping fits the home and property proportions.