May Exterior Projects- English Inspired Landscape

Mercedes
3 days ago
3 min read

We’re officially kicking off our landscaping journey this May, and I couldn’t be more excited.

Our goal is to create an outdoor space that complements the European accents on our home- soft, structured, and full of charm.

Think English garden meets functional family yard.

Today, I’m sharing two big projects we’ve started on: our trampoline hole install (yes, it's in the works!), and the raised front garden beds using a stone I’m obsessed with.

The Vision: English Garden Charm

We’re leaning into a soft, romantic palette outside: muted greens, warm whites, layered textures, and timeless materials like stone and wood.

The plan includes dreamy hydrangeas, English lavender bushes, lines of boxwoods, & eventually weeping beauties.

My goal is to create something that feels both curated and livable in the best way- including structured garden beds, but with room for natural growth and so many kids.

Raised Beds with Tumbled Turin Stone

These have already become a favorite feature and are top of my list of favorite projects ever completed!

For the raised garden beds at the front of our home, we used a Tumbled Turin stone — a soft, aged-looking stone that brings instant character and charm. It pairs beautifully with both the greenery and the architecture of the house, and gives that “has always been there” feeling that I love.

We’ll be planting herbs and florals here soon and I can’t wait to see it all come together.

I’ll be posting more photos and details soon, including exact materials and sourcing, so stay tuned for those if you're working on your own garden refresh this spring!

Trampoline Hole How-To

Let’s talk about the trampoline hole! This was a non-negotiable for us, we love how an in-ground trampoline keeps the yard feeling clean and open while still being kid-friendly. We’ll be sharing how we were able to install our in-ground trampoline for THOUSANDS less than any online company.

It’s one of those projects that’s a little intimidating when thinking of completing it yourself but we've successfully done it a couple of times, so it had to be one of our first projects here & here's our trick to making it affordable!

There are so many online companies and landscape companies that can do this project for us but the prices are anywhere from $2,500-$4,000 so I'd like to share with you how you can also do it and save literally thousands!

Since we've been in the excavating industry for just over 10 years my husband feels pretty confident in digging a 12-14 foot circle (after calling Bluestakes, of course!)

He only operated heavy machinery for probably a couple years though but I feel like men in general just know how to use excavators, you know?

We ended up going to a nearby plumbing supply store (Mountainland Supply) and ordered the Trampolines Down Under install kit with no trampoline. It's basically a skirt for a trampoline that acts as a retaining wall to keep dirt out.

Here's the thing, we just bought like a regular trampoline from Amazon here: https://amzn.to/4k1vUsA

But the TDU kit needs a top to connect to, as well as a bottom. So what we did was just grab an old, same size trampoline somebody was giving away or selling for so cheap and we took off the legs, flipped it upside down and attached the kit to it!

Dropped it in the hole and it's perfect.

So total cost for us is $1000 nearly on the dot for all these pieces!