Front Garden Ideas to Make a Lasting First Impression

To enhance the entrance of this small Central London front garden, Slab Coke Porcelain paving was chosen to build a striking feature of low maintenance entrance steps. The paving is complemented by DesignBoard Composite Decking, while vertical wooden palisades add warmth and texture. Serene Japanese-inspired planting creates an inviting gateway into the garden.

The steps' chunky design, avoiding overhang, reflects the garden's modern style. This choice contributes to the solid and durable feel of the entrance and emphasises the modernity of the design.

An advantage of using porcelain as a material for step treads is its versatility. London Stone offer a whole host of edge profile options in different thicknesses and finishes, from the modernity of a 5mm chamfer - representing straight lines and rectilinear shapes - to a more classical 36mm bullnose - reminiscent of period properties.

An impressive, contemporary low maintenance front garden paving scheme, utilising our Trendy Black Porcelain in a large-scale 1200x600mm format, to create a winding path and practical, modern steps with no overhang. The linear, block shape created by the steps give an almost Brutalist feel to the space, but is softened by the charm of the winding path.

By using rich, charcoal-coloured outdoor tiles for the front of the house, this garden achieves a chic, almost Scandi-look, by bridging the gap between the substantial, mature conifers at the property's boundary, and the living area of the house. Laying a large-scale paver over a more standard 600x600mm or 900x600mm slab, reduces joint lines, which can become distracting over a large, or curved area.

Industrial-looking Corten Steel lighting guides your way along the tiled path, while stylish, understated LED lights on the steps add to the practicality of the scheme, as well as providing a sleek design feature.

Faro Porcelain Paving makes for a beautiful front door patio tile in this project. By combining the modernity of porcelain with the colourful and textural contrast of Cotswold Clay Pavers, the finished look is inviting, practical, and sympathetic to the period property.

Porcelain paving does not require pre-sealing, and requires less ongoing maintenance than a similarly coloured smooth natural stone, so is a great choice for homeowners looking for a hard-wearing, yet no less beautiful, finish.

This garden's colour palette contains red-brown hues and weathered steel decorative fence panels, which tie in beautifully with the clay paving, while contrasting with the pale porcelain outdoor tiles and planters used on the front porch. This is all tied together with touches of vibrant green planting, adding aesthetic interest, and softening the overall look.

The Mediterranean warmth of Faro Porcelain paving and steps has been used on this impressive entranceway to create a low maintenance front garden. The chunky bullnosed porcelain steps, created by London Stone's in-house masonry team, create a sense of welcoming and provides the homeowner with a beautiful, classical feel to this impressive period property in Central London.

The client in this project chose porcelain as a more affordable alternative to the more traditional Yorkstone or Portland limestone, found throughout period properties in London and other cities across the UK. A similar look has been achieved, but at a fraction of the cost. The traditional bullnose edge profile, in a 36mm thickness, was selected, in-keeping of the impressive property.

London Stock bricks feature prominently in the wall at the front of the garden, shielding the bin store from full view, while adding to the privacy of the tiled front garden. This front patio maintains a seamless feel throughout, with a simple colour palette of grey, white, beige, and black, typical of a Georgian house.