Tip 1: Plants as privacy screens
With privacy protection plants you can create an inexpensive and opaque hiding place for your garbage cans. In addition, this variant can be perfectly embedded in the overall picture of your Front yard design. The following plants have proven to be excellent for this purpose:
- Conifers that are compatible with pruning, such as yew (Taxus baccata) or arborvitae (Thuja
- Evergreen deciduous shrubs, like Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) or cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus)
- Tall grasses such as non-runners-forming bamboo (Fargesia murielae) or sky bamboo (Nandina domestica)
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- Make unsightly garbage cans almost invisible with a suitable privacy screen
Behind a leafy one chain-link fence(€ 49.90 at Amazon *) your garbage cans will be invisible in the front yard. Reach for evergreen climbing plants here, so that privacy protection is guaranteed throughout the year. Suitable plants are ivy (Hedera helix) or the evergreen clematis (
Clematis armandii), which puts on a fragrant, white flower dress in spring.Tip 2: cover with opaque walls
in the small front yard Man-high privacy protection plants and hedges blow up the dimensions. Space-saving and lean solutions are required here. Walls made of natural materials such as wood, reeds or bamboo cane to hide rubbish bins are very popular. Since such constructions offer a large area to be exposed to the wind, stable fastening with screws or point foundations in the ground is important.
The specialist trade has ready-made boxes made of wood or plastic for you. These can be assembled on site in just a few simple steps and banish the garbage cans from view.
Tip 3: Sink into the ground - ingenious but expensive
The luxury version of the rubbish bin hiding place simply sinks the containers into the ground. The electrical system makes the waste bins disappear from the front yard at the push of a button. The cover can not only be walked on, it also bears a load of up to 130 kg, so that bicycles can be conveniently parked here. So much luxury comes at a price. A system for 2 large garbage cans costs around 3,500 euros, plus installation.
Tips
Take advantage of the path to the garbage can hiding place in order to create optical depth with its help. Instead of a dead straight course, create the access in a curved shape. In contrast to the 120 cm wide entrance towards the entrance door, a narrow 60 cm path width is completely sufficient here.