The front yard was a tangled mess of weeds and gravel when I moved in. The driveway sloped down and had an ugly retaining wall that. We could not open both car doors at the same time. I could not turn a motorcycle around in the driveway. The carport was ugly but functional. The city made me tear it down as the house violates many codes.
Most people now build retaining walls with engineered blocks. This looks great on new houses but would not blend with the existing rock wall up front and throughout the neighborhood. I picked through a rock pile at the horse stables and made my own rock walls and walkway that match the era.
