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Nothing that helpful add except that as someone who has recently viewed an enormous number of front gardens there are three things that will make it look good vs shit over time:
- Evenness of ground - you can have a slope, but the ground must be even. Lumps and bumps will make it look shit.
- Neatness of edges - unfortunately you've got a rectangle so you've got to to make it as crisp and straight as it can be. But in your favour hopefully you won't have any joins.
- Boarder interface - this needs to be clean and ideally natural (unless you want it to look fun and fake).
Other 2p comments are that I'd pick whether stylistically you want it to look natural or fake.
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she wants to be able to use that section of garden year round.
Weedproof membrane and gravel will do that and will take you both about 20mins to put down and give you the option of interspersing plants in the future.
- Evenness of ground - you can have a slope, but the ground must be even. Lumps and bumps will make it look shit.
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Right don't hate me, but I'm putting down a SMALL bit of evilfakegrass.
Doing it myself as on a budget and I'm struggling with the base prep.
Can anyone like @ColinTheBald @RagnarHairybreeks give some advice?
I've got some MOT and Sharp Sand I've still got to put down.
The wife would like it level with the top of the wonky inherited paving but that would make it too high up on the fence side. Guess I could slope it down slightly towards the fence?
The alternative is putting it under the lip of the paving.
Also how do I deal with the edge by the fence? It isn't totally straight either.
Got some long wood strips (shown) I could fix onto stakes and fix the evilfakegrass onto that?
And in between the edge and the fence put some more MOT down there to prevent rot?
(There is plenty of real grass, plants and flowers in the rest of the garden)