front yard inspiration

we're excited that Julie from Julie Orr Design is coming this weekend to help us plan out our garden. we have so many ideas for the spaces, but the hardest part is knowing where to start - and then there's all those parts you don't even think about when planning a garden, like direction of sun, shade and drainage, etc...

here's what we're thinking about doing with the front lawn

we're also thinking some sort of privacy fence, like this one, that would wrap around the corner of the house in front of the front window (about 10 -12 feet away from the house) and join up to the actual fence

this is the style of fence we like (with the spaces for the privacy fence and without for the real fence around the back yard)

and then this is what we're thinking for our mailbox and number plate which would sit in front of the huge tree and have some lights uplighting the numbers.

What do you think?