Please explain the thinking behind the need for a path to the front door. Does the drive not work well for pedestrians going to the door? I think the path could stand to be beefed up, but adding an entirely new path just a few feet from the drive seems redundant.

What "cedars" (genus and species) do you intend to use? Under the power lines, too?

Thanks for the response yardvaark. I guess the thinking for the path to the front door would really only be tradition? Or maybe curb appeal? And really I think you're about the redundancy of the path. I purposely poured the driveway wide in order to allow me to park and still have room for the walkway. It certainly isn't something I've got my heart set on.

As far as the "cedars" go that's a great question that I cannot answer as I didn't realize this was a thing. I was thinking the cedar hedges that are very popular in this area. I will try to attach a photo.

As far as the power lines it would probably be a good idea to stop at the pole I'm thinking. Plus when the city plows the streets a lot of snow ends up in the yard and I don't think they would last more than one winter the way the city likes to plow snow into people's yards. Maybe I could do something to take your eyes off of the power pole. I'm open to suggestions.

Those would be Arborvitaes ... Thuja occidentalis.

The walk seems plenty spacious at the house. But where it connects to the drive seems a bit pinched. It's hard to tell from the photo exactly how the walk works. Could you add another photo by closing the distance by about half from your previous camera viewpoint, and show the entrance area of the house and walk? Also, could you go to the right side of drive (behind your truck), move to about 1/3 of way up the drive and take a picture that shows from the corner of your house to whatever we see of the right neighbor's house ...?

(Too bad about the top of your left neighbor's house blowing away. Must have been a bad storm!) :-)

In the picture it looks as if there is a worn path from the road straight to the side of the house and another diagonally from the road end of the driveway to the side of the house. If they are really beaten paths and not just covered trenches or something it would seem that they are natural directions taken by people. Maybe a good idea to bear these tracks in mind. Humans tend to take the shortest route when they're on foot so wherever you place a path it may well be ignored if it isn't a 'desire path'.

Wow that looks great Yardvaark. I hope I can get it looking even close to that good. It is to bad about the neighbors roof ;). Made for a nice patio however the upkeep has made it generaly unsafe for public consumption at this point.

I really like what you did with the extension for the walkway between driveway and house. I wonder if there is any way of achieving that look without a call to my concrete guy. Probably not if I want to keep the look uniform I suppose.

As for the arborvitae along the right hand side of the house, I thought I didn't have room but upon closer inspection it may be something that I could make work. The gravel to the right of the truck and up the side of the house is parking and a walkway for our suite, so I don't want to make it too tight (moving furniture and such through there). I have attached a photo of the pathway up the side and maybe you can tell me if you think there is enough room for something like that. How big is the circumfurance usually on those

The tree in the front is a nice idea as well as it would hide the power pole a little. The only concern I suppose would be finding one that wouldn't grow tall enough to affect the above powerlines. Do you have any suggestions for what I should be looking for that would provide coverage but not grow to tall?