Hey guys, I posted this in the wrong forum apparently and got swarmed by "designers". so here it is again:

We bought our house about 6 months ago and since the weather has become nice we have been doing some landscaping. We started in front of the house.

This is what it used to look like:

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We got rid of all the shrubs and nasty trees etc. The old home owner didnt do much trimming, and this is what it looks like now:

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We had that big space infront of the window and decide to fence it in with a picket fence to make a sitting area. We are planing on making a little flower bed infront of it like the one on the right side. But inside the fence is where I am not sure what to do:

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I was originally thinking pavers, but thats a lot of digging, and there are still roots left over from that nasty shrubs we ripped out.

Then I thought floating deck, much less digging and leveling, but not sure how to incorporate it with the fence.

Maybe there is a third option.

ANY SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED