Hi, We have a French drain buried along the front of our house to help with draining our dense soil yard. But, we still have a continually-wet spot next to the front of our house. suggestions? We are thinking of some regrading (pile dirt), or a variety of very thirsty grass, or both grading and grass.

Hello, I am looking for some design ideas. We live in ND so summers can get warm but winters brutal cold. This is the north side of our home. This is our front door and you can see it is not welcoming and really needs some updating we feel. Our garage is on the far side of the house and does not face out to the street on this side as you can see. People always tend to park in our garage driveway which is fine, but how do we get them to come around to this door vs using the side garage door. If they want to park on the street too that would be fine and I know we probably need some path from the street to this door which we also do not have to aid in this. Perhaps. Some things we don't like about this area. 1. not welcoming as we mention 2. The windows seems small for the place the occupy. How do we fix this without replacing the windows? 3. This is the North side of the house and in summer we do use this area as you can possibly tell for relaxing when the days are hot. We would still like for this area to allow for this but solve #1 in addition We are open to any ideas and we really enjoy a mountain sort of look. (even though we are in ND and we can dream right. ;) ) What do people think? if this isn't the right forum or we should hire someone to come design us some ideas who does one call to do this sort of thing? Thanks for the assistance. [ATTACH]77090[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]77089[/ATTACH]